All the books by Clive Barker adapted to cinema and television, ranked

In Morocco, Frank Cotton buys a puzzle box from a dealer. In a bare attic, when Frank solves the puzzle, hooked chains emerge and tear him apart. Later, the room is filled with swinging chains and covered with the remnants of his body. A black-robed figure picks up the box and returns it to its original state, restoring the room to normal.

For as long as the residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by the word-of-mouth ghost story about the supernatural killer Daniel Robitaille, aka the Candyman, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. A decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, a visual artist and his girlfriend move into a luxurious loft condo in Cabrini.

The Candyman can be summoned by a person who says his name five times to a mirror, causing him to appear and kill the summoner by using a hook attached to the bloody stump of his right arm. Helen, now writing a thesis on how the residents of Cabrini-Green use the Candyman legend to cope with hardship, visits the scene of Ruthie Jean’s murder there, and meets Ruthie Jean’s neighbor Anne-Marie McCoy and her infant son Anthony.

In the past, British military officer Elliot Spencer is transformed into the Cenobite Pinhead after opening the Lament Configuration. Interviewed by Doctor Channard, and his assistant Kyle MacRae, she tells her account of the events, and pleads with them to destroy the bloody mattress her murderous stepmother, Julia Cotton, died upon.

Aaron Boone dreams of Midian, a city where monsters are accepted. At the request of girlfriend Lori Winston, Boone is seeing psychotherapist Dr. Phillip Decker, a serial killer who convinces Boone that he committed Decker’s murders. Decker drugs Boone with LSD disguised as lithium and orders Boone to turn himself in. Before he can do so, Boone is struck by a truck and taken to a hospital.

In the Mojave Desert in 1982, a man named William Nix, also calling himself “The Puritan”, has gathered a cult of disciples in an old house. Nix wields real magic and plans to sacrifice a girl, telling his followers he will save the world and grant them wisdom. A group of former cult members, arrive to stop him.

Leon is a photographer who wants to capture unique gritty shots of the city. Emboldened, he heads into the city’s subway system at night, where he takes pictures of an impending sexual assault before saving the woman. Intrigued, he investigates reports of similar disappearances.

In this adaptation of Clive Barker’s groundbreaking Hellraiser series, a young lady is forced to face the savage, paranormal forces that are behind an intriguing puzzlebox that is to blame for her brother’s abduction.

At a small college, Quaid and his friend Stephen do a fear study as a school project, recording people talking about their greatest fears. Quaid, however, is quite psychopathic and wants to take the fear to ‘the next level’. Quaid had seen his parents killed by an axe murderer as a child; this is his greatest fear, and he wants to learn what others dread and how they deal with it, in order to find a way to defy his own dread.

The film tells three stories: Jenna, about a college student suffering from mental illness. Unhappy at home, she decides to run away after becoming noncompliant with her medication. Miles, where Mary is approached by a psychic named Simon, who claims that he is communicating with her dead son Miles. And Bennett: Bennett and Steve travel to an abandoned town where both men experience inexplicable and supernatural phenomena.

The film tells three stories: Jenna, about a college student suffering from mental illness. Unhappy at home, she decides to run away after becoming noncompliant with her medication. Miles, where Mary is approached by a psychic named Simon, who claims that he is communicating with her dead son Miles. And Bennett: Bennett and Steve travel to an abandoned town where both men experience inexplicable and supernatural phenomena.

Joseph Thorne is a corrupt Denver police detective who regularly indulges in drug use and infidelity during the course of duty. At the scene of what appears to be a ritual murder, Thorne discovers a strange puzzle box, which he takes home in order to indulge his fascination with puzzles. After solving the box, Thorne begins to experience bizarre hallucinations.