Horror's future, Clive Barker, finally has some new films coming up

Clive Barker gives a talk Nov. 5, 2007, at the EMP/Sci Fi Museum in Seattle. (Steven Friederich) For a while, it was beginning to look like "the future of horror" Clive Barker was becoming a thing of the past. While that blurb quote from Stephen King blitz-started Barker's career—"I have seen the future of horror, and his name is Clive Barker" on the Books of Blood anthology back in the '80s—the writer took some time off in recent years for such disparate things as children's books and male nude photography aimed at much more mature fans. There were a few horror movies for television, but his admirers and critics were disappointed until The Midnight Meat Train film adaptation came out in limited release last year (the movie, directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, is now out on DVD). The groundswell of support seems to have started a new Barker boom. Directors started coming to him, and there will be a trilogy of Books of Blood films: The Book of Blood itself, and Dread . (link)