Something about Barker's prose makes the rawest obscenity seem privileged — the pleasure / pain principle of
his cenobites in print, for example, is made the grail, whereas on the silver screen it dips dangerously towards kitsch and cult camp.
Not exact matches
Best remembered for the creepy
cenobites — and all the absurd sequels they inspired — the original film
in Clive Barker's long - running series is more psycho - sexual nail - biter than creature feature.
With the latter's
cenobites, his most enduring contribution to popular culture2, consider that Barker's vision of an alternate, infernal reality shimmering just beneath the surface of the mundane has its roots
in Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos — a dimension of Elder Gods lurking behind the doors of perception.
In the cenobites the horror genre gained a group of strikingly unique and terrifying characters, due in no small part to the performances of Doug Bradley, Nicholas Vince, Simon Bamford and Grace Kirby, and the astonishing makeup effects by Bob Keen and Geoff Portas
In the
cenobites the horror genre gained a group of strikingly unique and terrifying characters, due
in no small part to the performances of Doug Bradley, Nicholas Vince, Simon Bamford and Grace Kirby, and the astonishing makeup effects by Bob Keen and Geoff Portas
in no small part to the performances of Doug Bradley, Nicholas Vince, Simon Bamford and Grace Kirby, and the astonishing makeup effects by Bob Keen and Geoff Portass.
We are delighted to welcome cast member Nicholas Vince (Chatterer
cenobite) and special effects supervisor Geoff Portass to discuss the production and legacy of Hellraiser
in a Q&A after the film.