![]() ![]() The first "Hellraiser," in 1987, had been low-budget - $2 million - and low-profile, since Barker was just beginning to establish his reputation in America (he was helped by King's calling him the "future of horror"). The Liverpool-born Barker, who now lives in Los Angeles, is getting used to this process. ![]() He's recently been sparring with the Motion Picture Association of America, which demanded certain trims before awarding "Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth" its R rating. ![]() "The Cliff Notes on Clive Barker would tend to say that he's a troublemaker," says the maker of trouble, quite proudly. Even Stephen King, no shrinking violet in the horror garden, admits Barker frightens him. At 40, dressed in black and fashion-handsome, he looks positively benign, though one suspects the sign on the door of his hotel room here should say "Do Disturb." After all, that's what Barker has been doing for a decade now, with his "Books of Blood" and his "Hellraiser" movies (the third opens today, a month before yet another Barker-inspired chiller, "Candyman"). In fact, Barker is not the malevolent author/auteur one might expect. ![]() With a literary twist, of course: Imagine a grid of fountain pens symmetrically embedded in Barker's shaved head, dripping ink. If he did, he might look something like his most public creation, Pinhead, the Deacon of Darkness, the High Priest of Pain. NEW YORK - Happily, Clive Barker doesn't look like Clive Barker writes. ![]()
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