It was 8 and 9 May 2004 when you visited The Netherlands together with fellow Hellraiser colleagues Doug Bradley, Nicholas Vince and Simon Bamford. It was the first time I was at a convention and I was so flabbergasted seeing all those people in one room who I loved seeing in the movies. Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger), Dwight Schultz and Dirk Benedict (A-team), David Prowse (Darth Vader) and Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) were there as well.

It made such an impact on me that I decided to make an online journal so I could write everything down. Here are two entries regarding you and even about your new book! (back in may 2004):

BARBIE WILDE - Female Cenobite - Hellraiser II

A young guy was standing at the long table where the four Hellraiser actors were sitting, but he was too shy to say something. His friend told Barbie Wilde and Nicholas Vince that he didn't know what to say to famous people. Barbie jokingly replied: "But we are just like you little people."

Barbie Wilde is a really openhearted, funny and charming woman. We talked about the way horror movies are depicted in the media. She gave a similar response as Doug Bradley. (He was disappointed when his picture was shown on a newspaper next to a guy who had used a nail bomb) She also mentioned that sometimes she is seen as someone who has done some strange stuff in her life in the town where she lives, but she doesn't mind. I also asked her if she would let her children see the movies. She thinks they're still too young, as are Doug Bradley's children.

When we talked about Clive Barker's horror books and the way he uses eroticism in his stories she confessed she had written a horror novel too. It's about a man in his midlife crisis who turns into a serial killer. She's trying to get it published but it's pretty sexual so that's making it a bit difficult. She wouldn't tell me the title yet, but I hope she'll get it published. She sure made me curious, as well as Clive Barker himself when I met him in Rotterdam.

EXCERPT FROM CLIVE BARKER ARTICLE

I told him (Clive) that Barbie Wilde had written a horror novel as well, but she was having trouble getting it published because it was too sexual. Clive replied "All the more reason for us to see it, right!".

All the beast,
Marcel
Webmaster
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