![]() ![]() Salome is a great evocation of the Bible playing on essentially shadow and light. He is particularly fascinated by the male body as a direct representative of human destiny, human lot, man's history. He is interested in the body, its suffering, its confinement, its torturing, its structure, looks, excitement and excitation, etc. But they are not because of Barker's fantastical (as he says) imagination. Both films have in common that they are pocket money films, done with so little budget that they could have been a pure waste of time. In fact it is a revealer about Clive Barker's imagination and interests more than anything else. It does not bring anything to it to say it is an illustration of Faust. The Forbidden is a work that could and should stand all by itself. John is shown as a young beardless angel who is of course loved and tortured by Salome. Salome is a reference to the Bible, John the Baptist and King Herod. Two short black and white films by Clive Barker from the time when he was a student in Liverpool with a couple of friends who will become associates later on in Hollywood. ![]()
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