“This was Stephen trying to deal with his cigarette jones and the fairly new no-smoking laws back in the ’90s,” Holland said of the story.
Inside the ‘Insanity’ of Making - and Editing - the Scrappy Nike Drama ‘Air’ The story seems to borrow a bit from John Carpenter‘s “ They Live” as it follows a Bostonian man who, in his attempt to quit smoking, realizes that many people in power are actually inhuman monsters. Deadline reports that Holland is going to adapt and direct “ The Ten O’Clock People” based on King’s short story of the same name. Holland hasn’t been completely off the grid, directing an episode of the 2007 “ Masters of Horror” series and developing the FEARnet series “ Tom Holland’s Twisted Tales,” but it’s fitting, now that Holland is ready to return to features, that he’s returning to King as source material. While last year’s “ Fright Night” wasn’t the worst offender of 1980s horror retelling (that would be “ Nightmare on Elm Street” for the record), fans who took umbrage at that effort can take comfort that the original film’s writer/director Tom Holland is finally back and ready to make his first theatrical feature since 1996’s “ Thinner.”Īfter writing and directing both “Fright Night” and “ Child’s Play” in the ’80s, the ’90s saw Holland working with Stephen King, adapting “ The Langoliers” into a miniseries and directing “Thinner” before taking an extended hiatus. A tie-in book was released featuring art work by Barker and film reviews by Stephen Jones.Ĭlive Barker's A-Z of Horror, compiled by Stephen Jones, BBC Books, 1997, ISBN 2-8.Some horror fans may think that the 1980s was the best times for horror movies, but Hollywood’s constant rummaging through the VHS bin of the era for remake material doesn’t always sit well. It was written and hosted by Clive Barker and explored the history of horror, from the cinema to art. JSTOR ( August 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭlive Barker's A-Z of Horror was a documentary series first broadcast on BBC2 in 1997.If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.įind sources: "Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror" – news Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline.
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