Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Clive Barker is the best Blood Pourer in all climates.
I WANT A PERMANENT SIMMERING
HUMAN BLOODBATH
FIVE FILMS
Lord of Illusions 1995
Midnight Meat Train 20008
Dread 2009
Book of Blood
2009Nightbreed-Cabal 1990
My mother planted the sharp knife in the eye orbit of the rabbit
hanging by the hind legs from the tree in the garden, and she extirpated the
eye out of the socket and cut it off, and the blood started to run and collect
in a bowl under the rabbit’s head. The rabbit did not move too much because she
had stunned it with a log behind its head before starting the knife excision.
Explain to me why I loved the blood fried with parsley on a thin
slice of bread. I more than liked it, I relished every single mouthful of it. But
I completely lost this relishing one day when, on the street, I came across a
man who had been shot four or five times, right in front of me. Blood
everywhere, including on my pants, and a small gathering started to grow
immediately, and soon enough, we were fifty, and we could have been even more
if the cops had not arrived and disbanded the gang of voyeurs we were.
Since then, my liver has become sensitive about it, and a bitter
taste of gall comes up in my stomach and up my throat. And this bitterness has
become attractive, desired, necessary for me to finally be able to smile in
front of blood and any being, including human beings, dying the good old male
death, bathing in their own blood and some of their opponents. Blood is blood,
isn’t it, and a cocktail of blood is the best mixture you can find in this
world, dedicated to violence and torture, bliss and the death instinct.
But how dare you say that? All the censors, the moralizing accusers,
and the ethical signposts on the road tell me, tell us, we may not in any way
enjoy the real blood of a dying person cast on the street by some violent
action. So, they invented comic books, comic films, literature, and even the
cinema to give us the illusion of real blood, though we know it is only an
illusion. And in this field, Clive Barker is one of the best, with the help of
John Carpenter, and why not David Cronenberg?
And think of the Bible as a blood-flood book of nothing but blood,
including that of Jesus.
Academia.edu Comment
Jacques
Coulardeau uploaded a paper
Clive Barker is one of the best about thrilling an audience with the
illusion of blood and torture. But is it really an illusion, deep in the mind?
I WANT A PERMANENT SIMMERING HUMAN
BLOODBATH
2025 • Éditions La Dondaine,
Medium.com
16 Pages
Cannibalism, * Torture, * Blood, * Meat Production, * Cohabitation of Living and Dead
