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Clive Barker Clears Up Rumors About His Health, Hints New Things to Come

Published

5 years ago

January 26, 2019

In an interview given earlier this month and printed on his own website, horror master Clive Barker spoke openly in an effort to clear up rumors about his reportedly failing health, and the fact that he is still creating and developing new projects.

The interview, conducted by Phil and Sarah Stokes, is printed in full on Barker’s website and gives a rare and candid look into the often-reclusive author’s personal life.

In 2012, Barker went in for a dental procedure and fell into a coma while in the chair after experiencing acute toxic shock from the procedure. The prolonged and arduous recovery process kept Barker under wraps for quite some time.

Naturally, the internet rumor mill kicked in and attributed his absence to everything from AIDS to drug abuse.

It was because of these rumors, some of which he admits came from people he had considered close to him.

“But it’s been very demoralising to discover that some of the people
that I trusted and loved were amongst the people who said these things – even though they fully understood that I was not incoherent and I was not stopping writing and so on,” Barker said. “So, it’s been important to me to get out into the world, and we’ll do about five conventions this year, starting with Atlanta in a few weeks, we’ll go to London almost certainly.”

Aside from those appearances, Barker opened up about new projects in the works including a new novel and two television projects.

Deep Hill, a novel he began writing during his recovery, is about half completed Barker told the Stokes, and the author describes it as one of the scariest things he has ever written in the way that it mingles fantastical creatures with real-life issues threatening the world in which we live.

Clive Barker Books of Blood — Cover art for Barker’s *Books of Blood*

Next up is a series adaptation of his terrifying Books of Blood which he is working on with Brannon Baga (Salem, Star Trek: The Next Generation). Barker describes the series as an expansion of the original books as he has about thirty addtional tales in the style of the originals that he would like to add to this setting.

And finally, there’s the coming series adaptation of Nightbreed.

“Nightbreed is also moving forward at quite a rate with a couple of very well-known directors showing a great deal of interest in it. I am on board to provide mythologies and ideas and hopefully put the Barkerian weirdness on the material,” Barker explained. “At the moment, we’re putting the team together: we have a writer, director, producers and now that the New Year has begun we’ll all get together and start to plan the long-term narrative, not just the opening narrative which is what we’ve done so far.”

If that’s not enough to whet the appetite of Barker fans, I don’t know what will be! You can read the entire interview here.

Keep your eyes peeled–perhaps not the best reference when talking Clive Barker–as iHorror will keep you posted on details for all these projects as they become available!

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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments

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13 hours ago

April 26, 2024

Timothy Rawles

It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.

We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.

“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”

That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”

Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:

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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening

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15 hours ago

April 26, 2024

Timothy Rawles

Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.

Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.

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Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.

Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.

Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.

The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date

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18 hours ago

April 26, 2024

Timothy Rawles

Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.

Jake Gyllenhaal’s in ‘Presumed Innocent’

Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.

These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:

According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”

Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.

Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.