Clive Barker Filmography

Born:: October 5, 1952 in Liverpool, England
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter, Book Author
Biography:: Clive Barker is one of the premiere contemporary writers of horror novels. Born, raised and educated in England, Barker started out as founder, playwright and director of a small theater group in London that staged such interestingly titled plays as Frankenstein in Love and The History of the...Read More

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Clive Barker Presents: Hellraiser

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Hellraiser gets a redo from the filmmaking duo of Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, helmers of the brutal French horror film Inside, with this Dimension Films release. Clive Barker returns in producing capacity only, with Feast writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan scripting the remake Read More

1/9/09
The Midnight Meat Train

Crew: Producer, Short Story Author

Actors: Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, Vinnie Jones, Roger Bart, Tony Curran

Synopsis: A photographer propelled to explore his dark side begins tracking a subway serial killer whose brutal butchery makes for the most nightmarish images ever captured on camera in director Ryuhei Kitamura's adaptation of a short story by horror heavyweight Clive Barker. Leon Kaufman (Bradley Cooper) Read More

8/1/08
Born

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Paul Bettany

Synopsis: This psychological thriller concerns a successful clay-animation artist (Paul Bettany) and his wife, who settle in a quaint English town with the intention of raising a family. Their efforts are soon complicated, however, when the fictional characters created by the husband appear in the real Read More

1/1/08
Book of Blood

Crew: Book Author, Producer

Actors: Sophie Ward, Jonas Armstrong, Paul Blair

Synopsis: A paranormal expert investigating a brutal murder discovers a house that stands at the intersection of several supernatural "highways" designed to transport souls to the afterlife in this adaptation of an original story by horror icon Clive Barker. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2008
Midnight Train

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Bradley Cooper

Synopsis: Former Alias star Bradley Cooper top-lines this lurid tale of a serial killer who plies his gruesome trade in the cavernous corridors of the subway system and the photographer determined to end his bloody reign. Adapted from a Clive Barker short story which originally appeared in the author's Read More

2007
Masters of Horror: Haeckel's Tale

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer director John McNaughton adapts horror icon Clive Barker's tale about a headstrong medical student who discovers, much to his chagrin, that not everything in the mortal realm can be explained through science. Overconfident young medical student Ernst Haeckel (Derek Cecil Read More

2006
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror

Synopsis: Take a fascinating look back at each film in the long-running Halloween franchise started by John Carpenter back in 1978 to see just where the malevolent Michael Myers stands in the blood-soaked annals of horror history as actress P.J. Soles narrates the definitive documentary of the Halloween Read More

2006
Masters of Horror: Valerie on the Stairs

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Tyron Leitso, Christopher Lloyd, Tony Todd, Clare Grant

Synopsis: Mick Garris, directorial veteran of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories and the features Critters 2: The Main Course and Psycho IV: The Beginning, helms this installment in the hair-raising Masters of Horror series, from an original screen story authored by best-selling novelist Clive Barker. Tyron Leitso Read More

2006
Ringers: Lord of the Fans

Synopsis: Explore the influence of author J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings on modern popular culture in this revealing documentary narrated by Lord of the Rings star Dominic Monaghan. For over fifty-years fans of Tolkien's literary masterpiece have bonded over tales of brave hobbits and evil wizards, and Read More

2004
Saint Sinner

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Greg Serano, Gina Ravera, Mary Mara, Rebecca Harrell

Synopsis: Saint Sinner begins in 1815, when two monks, played by Greg Serano and Antonio Cupo, inadvertently allow two evil female spirits to go out into the world. The spirits, Munkar (Mary Mara) and Nakir (Rebecca Harrell), travel in a time machine to Seattle at the beginning of the 21st century. The Read More

2002
Gods and Monsters

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovich, Kevin J. O'Connor

Synopsis: Gods and Monsters was promoted from the outset as an artistic drama, but the publicity tended to play coyly on the possibility of a homosexual romance between the retired film director James Whale, played by Ian McKellen and his hunky gardener Clayton Boone (Brendan Fraser). While the film does Read More

11/6/98
Quicksilver Highway

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Christopher Lloyd, Matt Frewer, Missy Crider

Synopsis: Body parts take on a life of their own in these two below-par horror stories made for television. In one story, a pair of teeth bite into a nasty hitchhiker at an opportune moment, and in the other, an artificially attached hand leaves the body it belongs to and takes off for a series of Read More

1997
Hellraiser: Bloodline

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Bruce Ramsay, Valentina Vargas, Doug Bradley, Kim Myers, Christine Harnos

Synopsis: Clive Barker's horrific creation Pinhead (Doug Bradley) returns to the screen for the fourth (and purportedly final) time in this time-juggling horror opus. In 18th century France, Phillip Lemarchand (Bruce Ramsay) constructs a black puzzle box for the wizard Duc de L'Isle (Mickey Cottrell); Read More

1996
Lord of Illusions

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Scott Bakula, Kevin J. O'Connor, Famke Janssen, Vincent Schiavelli, Barry Del Sherman

Synopsis: A private investigator hired to protect a popular stage magician finds himself drawn into a dark, occult underworld in this supernatural horror film from writer-director Clive Barker. With several nods to film noir tradition, the danger begins for detective Harry D'Amour (Scott Bakula) when he is Read More

1995
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh

Crew: Book Author, Executive Producer

Actors: Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan, Timothy Carhart, Veronica Cartwright, William O'Leary

Synopsis: This sequel to director Bernard Rose's superb, metaphorical Candyman is a more straightforward Gothic horror project, discarding any association with the events of the previous film (which was based on the short story "The Forbidden" by horror surrealist Clive Barker) aside from the title entity Read More

1995
Candyman

Crew: Book Author, Executive Producer

Actors: Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander R. Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa A. Williams

Synopsis: Bernard Rose followed his moody fantasy-thriller Paperhouse (1988) with this modern horror tale, based on Clive Barker's short story "The Forbidden". Compiling a thesis on urban legends, University of Illinois in Chicago graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) becomes aware of the prevalent Read More

10/16/92
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth

Crew: Book Author, Producer

Actors: Terry Farrell, Doug Bradley, Paula Marshall, Kevin Bernhardt, Peter Boynton, Ashley Laurence

Synopsis: A sleazy nightclub owner purchases a strange, disturbing sculpture, which he soon discovers contains a mysterious, ornate puzzle box. This box is a legendary object that promises the secrets of ultimate pain and pleasure, but is in fact a gateway to hell. Soon the box's new owner has unleashed the Read More

9/11/92
Sleepwalkers

Actors: Brian Krause, Mädchen Amick, Alice Krige, Mark Hamill, Jim Haynie, Ron Perlman, Cindy Pickett

Synopsis: Stephen King wrote his first original screenplay for this horror gore fest that features cameos by directors Clive Barker, Joe Dante, Tobe Hooper, John Landis, and King himself (playing a cemetery attendant). The story concerns a twilight people named "sleepwalkers" --creatures similar to vampires Read More

4/10/92
Nightbreed

Crew: Book Author, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Hugh Quarshie, Hugh Ross

Synopsis: Multimedia horror maven Clive Barker followed the success of his feature directorial debut Hellraiser with this equally surreal effort, based on his novella Cabal. The story involves the plight of Aaron Boone Craig Sheffer, a young man tormented by visions of monstrous, graveyard-dwelling Read More

2/16/90
Hellbound: Hellraiser 2

Crew: Book Author, Executive Producer, Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Kenneth Cranham, Imogen Boorman, Sean Chapman, William Hope

Synopsis: Horror fantasist Clive Barker, director of the original Hellraiser, maintained creative control over this worthy sequel as executive producer, but was unable to occupy the director's chair due to his involvement on other projects. His creative touch is still quite evident here, as the original Read More

12/23/88
Hellraiser

Crew: Book Author, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Sean Chapman, Oliver Smith

Synopsis: The feature-film debut of multi-talented filmmaker Clive Barker, this grim and surreal project is based on the writer/director's own novella The Hell-Bound Heart. The film opens with a chilling prologue in which globe-trotting pervert Frank (Sean Chapman) -- a connoisseur of sexual depravity Read More

9/18/87
Rawhead Rex

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Ronan Wilmot, Niall Toibin, Heinrich Von Schellendorf

Synopsis: A humble Irish farmer decides that it is high time to move that big old stone in his field that has been there seemingly since the dawn of time. This gory horror film, an adaptation from one of noted British-author Clive Barker's short stories, follows what happens next. No sooner does he move the Read More

1/1/87
Transmutations

Crew: Book Author, Director

Actors: Denholm Elliott, Steven Berkoff, Larry Lamb

Synopsis: This is a standard sci-fi horror-thriller that mixes romance together with lumpy underground mutants and a pivotal mad scientist doing dirty deals with a gangland boss. The boss's former fair maiden ("maiden" only in the vaguest of definitions), happens to have been kidnapped from a brothel and is Read More

4/18/86
Clive Barker's Salome & The Forbidden

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Filmed long before his current fame as a horror novelist and filmmaker, Salome/The Forbidden re-releases two experimental films Clive Barker directed in the 1970s. While they're a departure from more familiar fare such as Hellraiser and Lord of Illusions, these films show that Barker's unique Read More

1973