Clive Barker Talks About Jericho
Clive Barker changed the way I looked at horror movies when I was a kid. He opened up many other possibilities in my mind for interpreting evil with his macabre characters. For me, he introduced the dualitites of bondage and dominance, sex and death into the horror genre with the Hellraiser series and his novel The Great and Secret Show. Then when I found out that he was a friend of Dorothy, I was completely smitten. Mr. Barker if you are out there, let this be known. You can be my dark master any day, actually everyday.
Ohh, what was I talking about? Oh that’s right, his new game. Barker sat down with a group of reporters to discuss his new title Jericho, and to talk about the nature of evil and his motivations behind creating the game. The first shots released showcased images of the undead crusaders, who looked like Cenobites in a religious war.
There is a ring of crusaders who have to battle their way through, because those crusaders are actually under the influence of the power. And they’ve been in there living with their own corruption and with their own, not even sure whether they are alive or dead, not even sure whether they’re dreaming this or whether this is reality. And it is up to you to get in there and shape the destinies or the deaths of these characters.
Listening to him talk about his work is like listening to a philosopher wax poetic. He has concerned himself with the nature of evil and what motivates people to destroy or hurt for so long, he has become an authority on the dark side.
The game poses the question, ‘What is evil?’ Evil people tend to walk away with the headlines. They tend to walk away with huge portions of the history books. And a lot of times one man’s evil is another man’s good.
Expect to see Jericho hit shelves this Fall for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC, brought to you by Codemasters.
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Posted to Video Games, Videos on 21 March 2007
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Clive, sweetie, what's going on with your voice? I hope he doesn't have throat cancer or anything. :-(
I too, am a devotee of Barker, though his last few novels haven't done it for me in the same way his earlier work did.
He used to come to South Beach quite a bit, it seemed, when I lived in Miami. I always had a vague notion to go out and look for him.
I did go to a book signing, though, and brought a big ol' stack of books to be autographed. He drew pix in them, and like a fool, I left them behind in my condo for my parents to sell along with everything else.