Clive Barker Quotes


It is the creature that stands at the center of horror movies, not those who have made it their business to bring the beast down. We're all the same.


Citations

Barker, Clive. Introduction. Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Making of the Film. Fontana, 1990.

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Clive Barker
Clive Barker
  • Born: October 5, 1952
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Author, Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Actor, Playwright, Painter

Clive Barker is an English playwright, novelist, film director, and visual artist. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser and Candyman series.