Arbitrary
Tranny Chaser
The Scarlet Gospels: Clive Barker: 9781250055804: Amazon.com: Books
For quite a few years now I've been awaiting the release of the Scarlet Gospels as it was to feature detective Harry D'Amour versus Pinhead with a bunch of time devoted to the cenobites and their order and Hell itself. I like the Hellbound Heart a great deal along with some of the Hellraiser films (the first two primarily). There are quite a few surprisingly decent comics as well. The book is really a sequel to the first movie (and only the first movie) rather than being a sequel to the novella which is odd.
I'm at the last 10% and the thing is just terrible. It's like if someone who was pretending they were Joss Whedon wrote a porn parody of the Dresden Files and set it in New York. The dialogue isawful.You know that scene in Ocean's Thirteen where Terry Benedict tells Danny Ocean he was "born ready" and Danny rolls his eyes?
The whole thing is filled with lines equally eye-roll worthy but all played straight. Much of what is supposed to be disturbing sexual imagery just isn't anymore. I'm sure bondage, water sports, and horse tail butt plugs were serious business 30 yeas ago but now that's all shit you laugh at as you mouse past. Tons of characters are gay in an obnoxious and faggy "I talk about cocks a lot" kind of way that is damn near caricature. When it's just Pinhead doing stuff in Hell it's pretty decent. He has to become very, very stupid at one point for the rest of the plot to work which is a shame.
If you've read many or all of the Dresden Files it's going to be goddamn distracting having a detective named Harry tackle supernatural opponents. Fortunately Harry Dresden never had to spit in a demon's hand so the demon could use it as lube as he masturbated while torching Harry's partner.
Very disappointing to have seen others do better with the source material than the creator himself. In the urban fantasy genre Clive Barker comes off like a rank amateur.
For quite a few years now I've been awaiting the release of the Scarlet Gospels as it was to feature detective Harry D'Amour versus Pinhead with a bunch of time devoted to the cenobites and their order and Hell itself. I like the Hellbound Heart a great deal along with some of the Hellraiser films (the first two primarily). There are quite a few surprisingly decent comics as well. The book is really a sequel to the first movie (and only the first movie) rather than being a sequel to the novella which is odd.
I'm at the last 10% and the thing is just terrible. It's like if someone who was pretending they were Joss Whedon wrote a porn parody of the Dresden Files and set it in New York. The dialogue isawful.You know that scene in Ocean's Thirteen where Terry Benedict tells Danny Ocean he was "born ready" and Danny rolls his eyes?
The whole thing is filled with lines equally eye-roll worthy but all played straight. Much of what is supposed to be disturbing sexual imagery just isn't anymore. I'm sure bondage, water sports, and horse tail butt plugs were serious business 30 yeas ago but now that's all shit you laugh at as you mouse past. Tons of characters are gay in an obnoxious and faggy "I talk about cocks a lot" kind of way that is damn near caricature. When it's just Pinhead doing stuff in Hell it's pretty decent. He has to become very, very stupid at one point for the rest of the plot to work which is a shame.
If you've read many or all of the Dresden Files it's going to be goddamn distracting having a detective named Harry tackle supernatural opponents. Fortunately Harry Dresden never had to spit in a demon's hand so the demon could use it as lube as he masturbated while torching Harry's partner.
Very disappointing to have seen others do better with the source material than the creator himself. In the urban fantasy genre Clive Barker comes off like a rank amateur.