39,327
edits
Clive Barker: Difference between revisions
m
update links
m (Mass update links) |
m (update links) |
||
Line 1:
{{creator}}
[[File:barker_4825.jpg|frame]]
Clive Barker is an openly gay British horror and dark fantasy author responsible for over a dozen novels, several movies, graphic novels, some artwork, and a couple of video games as well. His works almost always feature sexual overtones that are graphic, disturbing, and disgusting in nature. Stories usually involve [[Another Dimension]] or many dimensions, though the majority of the story is usually set in a contemporary urban setting. On the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]] his stories lie pretty far on the cynical side, with heavily flawed but sympathetic protagonists and an overall dark and gritty tone, though the endings to some of his novels have been [[Earn Your Happy Ending|happy and magically enchanting]], and features themes such as love and [[Heel Face Turn|redemption]].
-----
=== Some of Clive Barker's works include: ===
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Nightbreed]]''
* ''[[Hellraiser]]''
* ''[[Film/Lord Of Illusions|Lord Of Illusions]]''
Line 35:
* [[Anti-Hero]]
* [[Anyone Can Die]] - Indeed, in the second novel of ''Abarat,'' it seems that Barker can only keep a certain number of characters alive at any given point, so for every new character introduced, another is cleanly hacked away.
* [[Author Filibuster]] - In ''[[Abarat]]: Days of Magic, Nights of War,'' [[Jerkass|John Serpent]] provokes the [[
* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]] - The Barbarossas and The Gearys in ''Galilee''
* [[The Blank]] - The Engineer in ''The Hellbound Heart''.
* [[Blood Bath]] - Mister B. Gone, the demonic [[Villain Protagonist]] from the story of the same name, bathes in a tub full of blood from dead babies. He complains of how difficult it is to keep them alive long enough so the bath would be warm when he empties their blood into the tub.
* [[Body Horror]] - So, so much [[Body Horror]].
* [[Cosmic Horror Story]]
* [[Deconstruction]] - ''[[The Midnight Meat Train]]'', at least in its film incarnation, is a huge deconstruction of slasher movies. Every single slasher movie trope used or referenced in it is either subverted or justified; the protagonists are responsible adults instead of rowdy teens, the authorities are useless because {{spoiler|they're working with the killer}}, and the supernatural slasher turns out to be {{spoiler|upholding an [[Ancient Conspiracy]] to keep an [[Eldritch Abomination]] out of our world}}.
* [[Demonic Invaders]]
* [[Doorstopper]] - ''Weaveworld'', ''Imajica'', ''The Great and Secret Show'', and ''Everville''.
* [[Fan Disservice]]
** There is a scene in the second book of Abarat, in which Leteo {{spoiler|asks Christopher Carrion, his master, for an antidote he needs; Carrion makes him beg for it and say all he wants is to serve his master, kicks him around a bit, and then tells him to lay on the ground and open his mouth.}}
* [[Gender Bender]]: {{spoiler|''The Madonna''}}.
* [[Hell Seeker]]: In the short story "Down Satan!", a wealthy businessman becomes convinced God doesn't exist, and decides to find out whether the devil does by building a literal Hell on Earth.
* [[Horny Devils]]
* [[Humans Are Bastards]] - Stories combine fantastic and supernatural evil with the evil and cruelties that humans perpetrate against each other.
** Consider, for example, that the true villains of the novella ''The Hellbound Heart'' (basis for the [[Hellraiser]] movies) are {{spoiler|Frank and Julia, wretched excuses for human beings (Frank even moreso than Julia)}}, not the Cenobites.
* [[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It]] (''[[Zero Punctuation|Clive Barker's]] [[Clive Barker's Jericho]], [[Zero Punctuation|by Clive Barker]]'', ''Clive Barker's Razorline'' [a short-lived imprint of [[Marvel Comics]]])
* [[Magical Land]] - Most of his novels deal with an alternate reality or more than one realm, which maybe be accessible through paintings, rugs, [[Hellraiser|complex toy boxes]] or the like.
Line 60:
** Also, "Rawhead Rex".
* [[Something Blues]]: Short story ''Pig Blood Blues''.
* [[
* [[Summoning Artifact]]: The Lemarchand's Boxes, and especially the Lament Configuration.
* [[Torture Cellar]]
* [[Urban Fantasy]]
| |||