While some horror fans first horror heroes were Stephen King, Vincent Price or Bruce Campbell, mine was Clive Barker. So much he even got me sent to summer school one year, because I refused to read anything that wasn’t by him and flunked English. Now you know why my grammar and spelling are so atrocious, because of good old, Clive.
Anyway Barker recently talked to MTV about horror remakes and his dislike of PG-13 horror films.
VIA Geeksofdoom.com:
“It’s one of the most disgusting developments in the last few years; the whole notion of a PG-13 horror movie to me is a contradiction in terms. It’s like having a XXX Disney picture. It doesn’t work. To me, you don’t have to throw blood around in every scene, but there has to be a sense — and this is not my quote, it’s Wes Craven’s quote. Wes says that ‘When you go into a horror movie, you need to feel that you’re in the hands of a madman.’ Now what madman makes a PG-13 picture, right? Your horror-movie madman…doesn’t neaten up all the edges and make it all nice for mommy. They [studios] do it because they want to bring in younger audiences and make more money. But they don’t make better movies.”
And now I remember why I love Barker again.
