5/11/2023 0 Comments The Forbidden by Clive Barker![]() Though Trevor, in both short story and film, comes across as a womanising gasbag, Helen is as intelligent as she appears and twice as empathetic as any of the other academics she associates with. Helen and her tenured husband are well off and better educated. It’s not long before Helen’s investigation forces her towards a reckoning with the Candyman himself (Tony Todd).īarker originally wrote ‘The Forbidden’ as an examination of the class divide in his native Liverpool. Coddled and mocked by her husband, Trevor (Xander Berkeley), Helen and her friend Bernadette ‘Bernie’ Walsh (Kasi Lemmons) set out to Cabrini Green, a high-rise housing project supposedly stalked by a hook handed killer known as the Candyman. Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is a graduate student in Chicago preparing a thesis on urban legends. ![]() Recontextualising the events of ‘The Forbidden’ so that not only were they about class but race in urban America as well was a stroke of genius that still echoes into the present day nearly 30 years later. Originally found in volume five of Clive Barker’s definitive Books of Blood, ‘The Forbidden’ would rise to greater fame in 1992 when writer and director Bernard Rose adapted it into Candyman. ![]() Always on the edge of souring into a nightmare, it’s too late before the reader realises they’ve been in one since the start. ![]() ‘The Forbidden’ reads like a captivating, thrilling dream. ![]()
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