Visionary, fanciful, poet and painter, Clive Barker has expanded the scope of the imagination as a novelist, director, screenwriter and playwright.
Barker, an inveterate seeker who moves easily between countless styles, has left his footprint indelible artwork on a wide variety of projects that reflect his creative understanding of contemporary media, from familiar literary terrain to the progressive vision of his production company Seraphim.
Su gods and monsterss, from 1998, which he executive produced, earned three Academy Award nominations and a Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
The following year, Barker joined the ranks of such illustrious authors as Gabriel García Márquez, Annie Dillard, and Aldous Huxley when their collection of literary works were included in HarperCollins' Perennial line, which he later published The Essential Clive Barker, a 700-page anthology with an introduction by Armistead Maupin.
The film Hellraiser It was directed by Clive Barker. Source: IMDB
Barker began his creative odyssey on the London stage writing scripts for original plays for his group The Dog Company, which included the story of the devil, frankenstein in love y crazy face.
In a very short time, Barker began to publish his collections of short fiction. The Books of Blood, but it was his first novel, The Damnation Game, which was a watershed and expanded its already growing international audience.
Barker changed course in 1987 when he directed hellraiser, based on his novel The Hellbound Heart, which became a true cult classic spawning a host of sequels, several lines of comics and a variety of products.
In 1990, Clive Barker adapted and directed nightbreed of his story Exact. Two years later, Barker produced his story Candyman, as well as the 1995 sequel, Candyman 2: Farewell to the Flesh.
Barker's literary works include titles such as Weaveworld, Imajica y EvervilleIn addition to the children's novel The Thief of Always, Sacrament, Galilee y Coldheart Canyon.
The literary works of this Briton are characterized by having fantastic characters that inhabit strangely familiar worlds.
Both his books and movies begin with ordinary lives, but in the end his characters always transform beyond their original state of flesh and evolve both physically and mentally.
Basically Barker's work explores the idea of the secret self through established motifs in the tradition of gothic fiction, using a framework of horror, fantasy and sexuality.