“...I have seen the future of implausible plotting, and his name is Clive Barker.”

— Clive Barker

Roger Ebert, reviewing Barker's film Hellraiser https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/hellraiser-1987, The Chicago Sun Times, September 18, 1987

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