Friday, August 1

• Lionsgate Dumping Meat Train?

  That's the word on the street. Despite overwhelmingly positive early buzz (8 out of 10 from 223 users on IMDB), Clive Barker's Midnight Meat Train, directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, is going to be difficult to find in theaters. Horror site Bloody-Disgusting.com is reporting that Lionsgate is dumping the flick into second-run movie houses around the nation on August 1st, although a quick search on Fandango here in Los Angeles shows no theaters playing the movie in the immediate area.

  The tactic Lionsgate is employing on this release is unclear, but Bloody-Disgusting is urging fans to write a letter to Lionsgate demanding that they get the chance to experience Midnight Meat Train in a proper movie house. They are also offering an updated list of the random theaters playing the movie. Fans living in Provo, UT or Wichita, KS might just be in luck...

  Read Bloody-Disgusting's full story right here.
  
  

  Posted 08/01/2008 by Jeff

  Clive Barker | Midnight Meat Train

Tuesday, October 16

• Le Hellraiser?

  Clive Barker's landmark 1987 horror flick, Hellraiser, about a couple with the misfortune of moving into a house inhabited by a man left skinless after being tortured by creatures that have escaped from the gates of Hell, is set for a remake.

  Julien Maury and Alexander Bustillo, who made last year's French horror movie, Inside, will direct for Dimension, who is hoping for a repeat of the success with they had remaking Halloween. Barker will produce.

  Source: Variety.

  
  

  Posted 10/16/2007 by Heather

  Clive Barker | Hellraiser | Hellraiser

Thursday, July 26

• Clive Barker inspired by "Special Cookies"

  During a panel to promote the upcoming Lionsgate flick Midnight Meat Train, horror legend Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Candyman) provided the 2007 Comic-Con with its most enjoyable moments thus far.

  Rambling, occasionally incoherent and highly entertaining throughout, Barker had the audience in stitches as he spoke about the THC-laced culinary inspiration for the titles of his stories:

  "I had a bunch of short stories without titles attached to them. And my friend Simon (Bamford, appeared in the 1990 Barker flick Nightbreed) brought these cookies to a party. I have a very sweet tooth and I devoured these cookies. And then I felt very, very strange. Simon came back and said 'Where are the cookies?' And I said that I ate them. And he goes, 'Well, they're special cookies.' And....oh my God. And eventually I ended up with eleven titles."

  Midnight Meat Train stars Vinnie Jones, Bradley Cooper and Leslie Bibb. It's currently slated for a 2008 release. 

  
  

  Posted 07/26/2007 by Thomas

  Clive Barker | Hellraiser | Candyman