Ginsberg had come over and called Liverpool the Haight Ashbury of England. Liverpool was quite a place to be in the sixties. 'I saw Anger's movies at a very active little film society in Liverpool in the sixties. I was quite surprised to see how many people got something out of them on video. We designed the whole thing to be shot on negative. Salome is seven minutes long and shot on 8mm The Forbidden was shot on 16mm, but we printed it in negative because we didn't have the money to print it in positive.

'I made two films which went on to be put on video: Salome, which I did when I was 18, and The Forbidden, which I did when I was 19. The references to Salomé in the Bible are I think slight but, nevertheless, Biblical stories, if they are good stories, have a kind of primal quality to them.'īy, Redemption Salomé /Forbidden video release, 1995 The Bible is a source of inspiration constantly for me and remains a significant source of inspiration. It's a very sexual story, it's a very ritualistic story, it's a bargain story. 'The Salomé story: boy, there are layers to that story. For people who are really familiar with my whole mythology and my approach to things I think they are an interesting piece of insight in to how these images and ideas developed over the years.'īy ,Lost Souls, Issue 2, 1995 Just for the average filmgoer, they wouldn't mean a whole heap. I think they are an interesting artefact, and I am glad they have found their way to video. These definitely prefigure what we see later in the Hellraiser movies. 'These are home movies, they are movies that were made in people's cellars and people's front rooms, with a lot of passion and no money.I think they are interesting little films, almost a thing prophetic about them in a sense, particularly in 'The Forbidden', the atmosphere of dread and anxiety that hangs over the movie and obviously the erotic elements and the nails in the nail board.

The forbidden by clive barker