Masters of Horror Face off :Cronenberg vs Barker? Poll closed

[storyteller]

I don't know how to pick...Cronenberg's films win but films inspired by Barker would edge it for me. Plus for me, the best work from either of them is a book by Barker, Mr. B Gone is a piece is mastery. A horror novel that is "possessed" and telling you directly to destroy it before it's too late while giving you the story of how it got to this point...in your hands, with you reading it.

You hold in your hands not a book at all, but a terrifying embodiment of purest evil. Can you feel the electric tingle in your fingers as you are absorbed by the demon Jakabok's tale of his unintentional ascent from the depths of the Inferno? Do you sense the cold dread worming its way into your bloodstream, your sinews, the marrow of your bones as you read more deeply into his earthly education and unspeakable acts? The filth you now grasp has been waiting patiently for you for nearly six hundred years. And now, before you are completely in its thrall, you would do well to follow the foul creature's admonition and destroy this abomination of ink and paper before you turn a single leaf and are lost forever.

 

[Neuromancer]

Damn word. That would’ve made more sense

I may do a second like a winners bracket so Barker and King will probably square up.

 

[OJ Simpsom]

I may do a second like a winners bracket so Barker and King will probably square up.

Your match ups are horrible. Should have just let Marty take the reigns.

 

[Carl Tethers]

Overall.. Cronenberg

 

[TheGodling]

Cronenberg has a better grasp on cinema but Barker has a better grasp on horror.

Going with Barker because outside of some of the most iconic scenes from Scanners and The Fly I can't say I would even think to name any of Cronenberg's work in a top horror movie list, Barker would be featured as both a director (Hellraiser) and as a creator (Candyman). Also, Nightbreed and Lord Of Illusions (the latter isn't even mentioned in OP, smh) deserve more credit IMO than they're normally given.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Cronenberg has a better grasp on cinema but Barker has a better grasp on horror.

Going with Barker because outside of some of the most iconic scenes from Scanners and The Fly I can't say I would even think to name any of Cronenberg's work in a top horror movie list, Barker would be featured as both a director (Hellraiser) and as a creator (Candyman). Also, Nightbreed and Lord Of Illusions (the latter isn't even mentioned in OP, smh) deserve more credit IMO than they're normally given.

That’s a fair argument too. Good shyt

 

[Neuromancer]

Cronenberg has a better grasp on cinema but Barker has a better grasp on horror.

Going with Barker because outside of some of the most iconic scenes from Scanners and The Fly I can't say I would even think to name any of Cronenberg's work in a top horror movie list, Barker would be featured as both a director (Hellraiser) and as a creator (Candyman). Also, Nightbreed and Lord Of Illusions (the latter isn't even mentioned in OP, smh) deserve more credit IMO than they're normally given.

I knew I missed one.

 

[CookDat]

Cronenburg fr. That man really the king of body horror. That scene in Videodrome where ol boy gets shot and mutates still one of the wildest things I've seen in a movie.

 

[morris]

This is a tough one as Cronenberg played a villain in Nightbreed, one of my favorites. Rawhead Rex... seriously a POS, EAT shyt AND DIE YOU PIG, TOU BLOODY PIG BARKER YOU!!!

He does have Hellraiser and the classic Candyman...that and Nightbreed help win over The Fly, a classic but I was never deep into Scanners.

Barker FTW

 

[noble]

Always thought Cronenberg was creepy as hell in Nightbreed, like somebody already said Hellraiser, Candyman, Nightbreed win over The Fly for me....gotta go with Clive

 

[Bruce LeRoy]

This is a tough one as Cronenberg played a villain in Nightbreed, one of my favorites. Rawhead Rex... seriously a POS, EAT shyt AND DIE YOU PIG, TOU BLOODY PIG BARKER YOU!!!

He does have Hellraiser and the classic Candyman...that and Nightbreed help win over The Fly, a classic but I was never deep into Scanners.

Barker FTW

The Rawhead Rex story is one of the most fukked up things I've read, if they ever make a proper movie based around that story [I know they made a movie in the 80's never seen i tho..]

 

[morris]

The Rawhead Rex story is one of the most fukked up things I've read, if they ever make a proper movie based around that story [I know they made a movie in the 80's never seen i tho..]

DON'T WATCH IT!

Bad News Brown

• morris
• May 15, 2019

BNB

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

I thought that you were leaving all the rating polls open until Halloween??I need time to digest the content and figure out who I want to pick.