Review: Nightbreed: The Cabal Cut
Clive Barker’s brand of horror is hard to define. Falling somewhere between the popularpulp of Stephen King and the more erudite terrors of Peter Straub, it is mainly Barker’s short stories and novelettes which have made their way to the big screen, with varying degrees of success. Nightbreed (1990) follows Aaron Boone (Craig Sheffer), a troubled young man hauntedby vivid dreams of a strange graveyard city inhabited by legions of freakish half human creatures. Despite the concerns of his girlfriend Lori (Anne Bobby) and psychiatrist Dr. Decker (David Cronenberg), Aaron feels increasingly drawn to try and find the graveyard and its inhabitants for real, with…
Hermione and the Moon
Diabolique presents Hermione and the Moon, a play by Michael Mitchell, based on the short story of the same name, by Clive Barker. Foreword, by Michael Mitchell: The ugly truth to adapting other people’s stories is that, sometimes, they end up being more work than simply writing a new tale up from scratch. But sometimes, when they’re put together so perfectly—and so adroitly—like this one from Clive Barker, the adaptation almost writes itself. And this story was so well written, already replete with perfect dramatic scenes (or arcs), it practically cried out to be put on a stage. One particular point of…
