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    Your First Peek At Clive Barker's Latest 3-D Project

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

    Sucks When Sorority Girls Move Into Monster Town
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    10/12/09

    In reply to Your First Peek At Clive Barker's Latest 3-D Project
    Great. So, when the hell is he going to finish Abarat?
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    braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was starred braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was unstarred
    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    10/13/09

    @braak: I KNOW, RIGHT?
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    Image of Aidan_ Aidan_
    10/12/09

    In reply to Your First Peek At Clive Barker's Latest 3-D Project
    ...a terrible, impossible choice-to unravel the very fabric of the world, or to save it?

    Really? How is that an "impossible choice?" You could either save the fabric of the world, and therefore countless existences...or not.

    Oh yes, it's a terrible dilemma.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/13/09

    @Aidan_: The Chronopedon loomed above Dr. Brock Quinn, his jointed arms reaching out in all directions, fading in and out of reality where it pierced through the veil of this world like a fist plunged through rotting leather.
    -MAKE YOUR CHOICE MORTAL
    Dr. Brock Quinn looked up at the creature of unimaginable hatred and sin.
    -Um. Hmm. Well I don't know. What do you mean by 'save it'?
    -HUMAN MAKE YOUR CHOICE
    -Well okay but 'save' it like... save it as it is? Can I save it in a better state? Maybe replenish the coral reefs a bit.
    -WHAT IS 'REEF'?
    -Oh just a complex interchange between marine species and a certain kind of polyp-
    -SHUT UP!
    -What about ice cream?
    -ICED CREAM? The creature's voice echoed through the distant corners of dying universes.
    -Ice cream. Singular. If I save the world will there still be ice cream? I noticed it's pretty hot where we are now, I wanted to make sure you'd remember about ice cream.
    -THE WORLD WILL BE IF YOU SAY... JUST... SAY!
    -Oh everything but cherry. Can I save everything but cherry?
    -RRRRRR

    *WORLD DESTROYED*

    signed,
    Clive Barker
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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 Belabras
    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 Wubbytoes Wubbytoes
    11/05/08

    In reply to Sucks When Sorority Girls Move Into Monster Town
    Nightbreed is great. Cronenberg's mask in that movie is one of the coolest horror movie villain masks ever.
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    Image of Adam_Y Adam_Y
    11/05/08

    In reply to Sucks When Sorority Girls Move Into Monster Town
    "Where do they get cigarettes in their underground city"


    If there's a corner, there's a Londis.

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    Image of OphiuchiHotline OphiuchiHotline
    11/04/08

    In reply to Sucks When Sorority Girls Move Into Monster Town
    I admit, this is a guilty pleasure movie that I will watch every time I stumble across it. I know it's cheesy but I still love it.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/04/08

    @OphiuchiHotline: May I just say that I really like your nym. I think that may be my favorite Varley novel.
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    Image of Plague Plague
    11/04/08

    In reply to Sucks When Sorority Girls Move Into Monster Town
    Sorry, but this movie proved hands down that Barker needed to stick to writing and not directing.

    Looked great, but the story was a incoherent patchwork mess, with some of the worst contrived dialogue coming out of cardboard characters that you gave not a whit about.

    The stunt-casting of Cronenberg didn't help, either.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/04/08

    @Plague: No, it was The Illusionist that proved that. Still have a soft spot for this flick. Cronenberg was great. Some of the actors, not so much.
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    Image of Deadlinex Deadlinex
    11/05/08

    @Annalee Newitz: Um... Do you mean "Lord of Illusions" by chance?


    I would like very much to see more Clive Barker works turned into films as long as they were not directed by Clive Barker.

    As a side note there was at one time suppose to be an animated film of "The Thief of Always" (my favorite book as a youth) that I guess must of perished in development purgatory.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/05/08

    @DeadlineX: Doh! Why can't I edit comments? Yes, I mean Lord of Illusions.
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    Image of Jason-Pitzl-Waters Jason-Pitzl-Waters
    11/04/08

    In reply to Sucks When Sorority Girls Move Into Monster Town
    I'm still waiting for an HBO miniseries (or something to that effect) of "Imajica" (my favorite work by Barker).
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    Image of Alizarin Alizarin
    11/04/08

    In reply to Sucks When Sorority Girls Move Into Monster Town
    I LOVE that movie.
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