Clive Barker Archives

Rawhead Rex (1986)

Rating: ★

May 4, 2000Clive Barker Adaptation/Prehistoric Monster Revived

Early Clive Barker adaptation made just prior to his gaining fame with Hellraiser about a the revival of a monstrous pagan pagan that suffers from shabby treatment and a rubbery monster

Director: George Pavlou

Actors: David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Ronan Wilmot, Niall Toibin, …

Category: Horror

4 May 20005 July 2026 by Roog

Hellraiser (1987)

Rating: ★★★★

Nov 25, 2000Sadomasochistic Demons

The film that put the name of Clive Barker on the map. A work of considerable imagination where Barker delves into forbidden pleasures and fuses the film with S&M imagery for the memorable creations of the Cenobites

Director: Clive Barker

Actors: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Oliver Smith, …

Category: Horror

25 November 200014 March 2026 by Roog

Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)

Rating: ★★★

May 1, 2001Sadomasochistic Demons

The first of the Hellraiser sequels. This lacks Clive Barker's original dark obsessive vision but is worthwhile in its own right, expanding the scope of the story out into a magnificent vision of Hell

Director: Tony Randel

Actors: Ashley Laurence, Clare Higgins, Doug Bradley, Kenneth Cranham, …

Category: Horror

1 May 200111 October 2022 by Roog

Nightbreed (1990)

Rating: ★★

Nov 14, 2011Secret City of Monsters

The second directorial film from Clive Barker is a hugely ambitious work concerning the discovery of a city of monsters - containing some extraordinary makeup creations - but proved a box-office flop

Director: Clive Barker

Actors: Craig Sheffer, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Doug Bradley, …

Category: Horror

14 November 201116 October 2020 by Roog

Candyman (1992)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 8, 2000Boogey Man/Clive Barker Adaptation

A Clive Barker adaptation capped by a magisterial performance from Tony Todd. This was greeted as a horror masterpiece when it came out and went on to spawn two sequels. Not too bad if it falls short of the classic status

Director: Bernard Rose

Actors: Tony Todd, Virginia Madsen, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, …

Category: Horror

8 December 200028 December 2025 by Roog

Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)

Rating: ★★

May 1, 2001Sadomasochistic Demons

The Hellraiser sequels begin their descent to mediocrity. Clive Barker's original vision of dark, forbidden pleasures has been watered down and the Cenobites become little more than campy variations on Freddy Krueger

Director: Anthony Hickox

Actors: Doug Bradley, Terry Farrell, Paula Marshall, Kevin Bernhardt

Category: Horror

1 May 200124 September 2025 by Roog

Lord of Illusions (1995)

Rating: ★★

Mar 18, 2003Occult Detective/War Between Magicians

Clive Braker's third and final outing as a director. Barker is trying to tell an occult detective story but fails to get any of the mood that film noir operates by

Director: Clive Barker

Actors: Scott Bakula, Famke Janssen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Daniel Von Bargen, …

Category: Horror

18 March 200328 June 2026 by Roog

Quicksilver Highway (1997)

Rating: ★★

Jul 14, 2010Horror Anthology

The perpetually awful Mick Garris inflicts adaptations of Stephen King and Clive Barker stories on us in what looks like an unsold pilot for a horror anthology tv series

Director: Mick Garris

Actors: Christopher Lloyd, Matt Frewer, Missy Crider, Raphael Sbarge, …

Category: Horror

14 July 201020 February 2025 by Roog

Saint Sinner (2002)

Rating: ★★

Sep 25, 2019Demonic Succubi

Clive Barker based work about a monk pursuing two demonic succubi through time to the present. Clive Barker watered down for the Sci-Fi Channel but worth watching for the imaginative creature effects

Director: Joshua Butler

Actors: Greg Serano, Mary Mara, Rebecca Harrell, Art Hindle, …

Category: Horror

25 September 201916 October 2020 by Roog

The Plague (2006)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 19, 2008Zombified Children

Interestingly different film about zombified children set after a time when childbirth has died out. This generates a reasonable level of tension but arrives at a very confusing end

Director: Hal Masonberg

Actors: James Van Der Beek, Ivana Milicevic, Brad Hunt, Josh Close, …

Category: Horror

19 January 20082 March 2023 by Roog

The Midnight Meat Train (2008)

Rating: ★★★★

May 1, 2010Ritual Killer on the Subway/Clive Barker Adaptation

One of the best Clive Barker adaptations. Japan's Ryuhei Kitamura brings a masterful assurance with the horror elements and does gore in astonishingly new and unrealised ways

Director: Ryuhei Kitamura

Actors: Bradley Cooper, Vinnie Jones, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, …

Category: Horror

1 May 20102 March 2023 by Roog

Book of Blood (2009)

Rating: ★★½

Jun 15, 2012Haunted House/Clive Barker Adaptation

A Clive Barker adaptation taken from the name of his story collection. While not uninteresting, it emerges as a haunted house story that eschews genre cliches for an everyday approach and never quite delivers its punches

Director: John Harrison

Actors: Sophie Ward, Jonas Armstrong, Paul Blair, Clive Russell, …

Category: Horror

15 June 201210 December 2025 by Roog

Dread (2009)

Rating: ★★½

Aug 31, 2014Clive Barker Adaptation/Experiment in Fear

Clive Barker adaptation about a disturbed university researcher who pushes an experiment into people's fears to extremes. This takes some time to start going anywhere but does eventually deliver the horrific goods

Director: Anthony DiBlasi

Actors: Shaun Evans, Jackson Rathbone, Hanne Steen

Category: Horror

31 August 201424 January 2026 by Roog

Books of Blood (2020)

Rating: ★★

Oct 17, 2020Clive Barker Anthology

A new Clive Barker film is always something to be excited about – Barker has been absent too long as a creative force. This is an anthology based around Barker’s celebrated story collection

Director: Brannon Braga

Actors: Britt Robertson, Anna Friel, Nicholas Campbell, Paige Turco, …

Category: Horror

17 October 202017 October 2020 by Roog

Hellraiser (2022)

Rating: ★★

Oct 14, 2022Sadomasochistic Demons

A valiant attempt to remake Clive Barker’s glistening and brilliant original that only emerges as a better made version of one of the sequels. This has a disappointing tameness that would never have inspired a series of sequels

Director: David Bruckner

Actors: Odessa A'zion, Jamie Clayton, Drew Starkey, Adam Faison, …

Category: Horror

14 October 202217 January 2026 by Roog