Clive Barker’s “Tortured Souls”
Barker Back In Director’s Chair
Clive Barker will return to the director’s chair after an eight-year absence to helm Universal Pictures’ horror movie Tortured Souls, Variety reported. Barker last directed 1995’s Lord of Illusions, a Scott Bakula supernatural horror movie released by MGM, the trade paper reported.
Tortured Souls is based on Barker and Spawn creator Todd McFarlane’s line of action figures, which debuted at the International Toy Fair in New York in February 2001. Each of the six grisly Tortured Souls—Talisac, Lucidique, Scythe-Meister, Agonistes, Mongroid and Venal Anatomica—was sold with a chapter of an original Barker-penned storyline, forming the chapters of a novella outlining the Souls’ origin, the trade paper reported.
For the big-screen adaptation, Barker told the trade paper that the Souls storyline centers on a man who exchanges his wife for a demon goddess from another world, throwing her into a shadowy world of monsters from which she must escape, the trade paper reported.
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