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Originally Posted by Spitfire666xXxXx
I never got a chance to read any of the books Clive wrote...or HP Lovecraft...I just have trouble sitting down and reading. I hear their great though and way better then the movies. But I never get around to reading them. It's nice to know it's atleast based off a novel though...I thought it was based off the toyline which would scare me at how insanely bad it would be.
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Well, the novela was packaged with the toys, so the two were released simultaneously.
I'm not much of a reader, either. I don't have the attention span for novels (though I'm reading one now for the first time since high school).
I greatly prefer short stories and novellas, which is why Clive Barker and Lovecraft are two of my favorite authors. Their stories are short, to the point and get the job done. Lovecraft, in particular.
Lovecraft's style of writing is particularly difficult to transfer to the screen, as he likes to write about things completely impossible to comprehend in 3 dimensions and what-not. For instance, The Colour Out of Space is 100% unfilmable, as it deals with a meteor that is a color no one on Earth has ever seen before. Weird.
Barker's a little more "Down to earth" in that his stories can be filmed; but his works are very brutal and disturbing and gorey. So much so that most studios won't keep them intact as the material would frighten away most of the average audience who don't have rock hard stomachs.
A GOOD Tortured Souls movie is very much possible to film...it's just that studios won't put the money up for something of ethically questionable content. It took House of a 1,000 Corpses what, 3 years to get released after post production wrapped-up because every release studio was afraid it would be too offensive or intense?
Barker's work tends to fall into that category.