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    Clive Barker's Latest Trailer Uses Your Skin As Twitter For Dead People

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    Image of Starwatcher Starwatcher
    07/09/09

    In reply to Clive Barker's Latest Trailer Uses Your Skin As Twitter For Dead People
    I've loved the Bark-man since I was in high school. Most of his short stories would be good at least as half-hour shorts if not full-length films. I was even a fan of the travesty that was 'Nightbreed,' because all those mutants were just too cool. But my favorite Barker character has always been Harry D'Amour. Never mind that film with Scott Bakula as Harry--bad casting, in my opinion, but a semi-decent film even so--the character has huge potential for his own television series and a ton of films.
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    Image of cunning001 cunning001
    07/09/09

    In reply to Clive Barker's Latest Trailer Uses Your Skin As Twitter For Dead People
    Well, if it matches or exceeds the level of midnight meat train then i'll be happy.
    I'd always thought some of Clive Barker's stories could make good movies, but with the exception of hellraiser I never saw a good one and even that in retrospect had a few issues. Midnight meat train was an excellent little film, I thought, and if this is too, then well hell that's a trend ;)
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    Image of Plague Plague
    07/09/09

    @cunning001: Oh, pray tell what was excellent about it? Cooper's awful performance? The bad CGI blood? Aside from Vinnie as Mahogany, the thing was a predictable slog.
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    07/09/09

    In reply to Clive Barker's Latest Trailer Uses Your Skin As Twitter For Dead People
    *caption for the first photo*

    I can get 30% off at Bed, Bath and Beyond. HOT DAMN!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/09/09

    @Belabras: It puts the lotion... oh, fuck it.
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    Image of littlewade littlewade
    07/09/09

    In reply to Clive Barker's Latest Trailer Uses Your Skin As Twitter For Dead People
    whos clive baker?

    did we make a boo boo?
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    07/09/09

    @littlewade: sometimes bad things happen guys. Like the r disappearing mysteriously, it's times like these where we have to count on each other for the support to get through the day. FTFY guys sorry about the mix up.
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    Image of haseoreo haseoreo
    07/09/09

    @Meredith Woerner:

    Not as sorry as Clive Baker, who just lost his shot at fame. ;)
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    Image of jpedersen jpedersen
    03/29/09

    In reply to Two Obnoxious Space Heroes Vie For Your Laughs Plus IMAGINE Festival's Line Up
    wasn't midnight meat train part of the books of blood collections anyway?
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    03/29/09

    @jpedersen: oh lordy...do NOT watch that movie...it's a stinker.
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    Image of Pegritz Pegritz
    03/29/09

    In reply to Two Obnoxious Space Heroes Vie For Your Laughs Plus IMAGINE Festival's Line Up
    "The Book of Blood" was a shoffy little throw-away piece that Barker wrote as an introduction to the collections of his more substantial stories. Why the FUCK would anyone make a film of that? That's tantamount to filming the prologue to Weaveworld. Besides, Barker hasn't directed or written anything even *vaguely* worth a damn in over fifteen years.


    John Bergin, on the other hand, is a frickin' genius. His music is utterly incredible--spanning the bridge between goth dronescapes and extremely gloomy trip-hop. And best of all, you can have it all for free! Here's the link to his complete collection of music:


    [web.me.com]


    Yeah, it's a MobileMe page, but who cares--his stuff's incredibly good and he's giving it away gratis to those who enjoy it! I highly suggest anyone new to Bergin to start with his C17H19NO3 material and move next to Tertium Non Data. Wow. It'll blow your gear-driven industrial minds out.

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    Image of blatanville blatanville
    03/29/09

    @Pegritz: I think someone would use that "throw-away piece" in exactly the same way Barker did: as a frame to lead us to the other "more substantial stories." Just because they didn't pluralize the title (i.e. "Books of Blood") doesn't mean we won't get treated to at least some of the other stories contained therein. That's my take-away from this, anyway.

    I, for one, would love to see a brief snippet of "In the Hills, the Cities."
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    03/29/09

    @blatanville: from the IMDB page:

    Clive Barker is credited with --> short stories "On Jerusalem Street" and "The Book of Blood"


    ...so there you go.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/29/09

    In reply to Two Obnoxious Space Heroes Vie For Your Laughs Plus IMAGINE Festival's Line Up
    Can Kenny Starfighter be sweded?
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