We interviewed horror writer/director Clive Barker recently - a fascinating and verbose man. We'll be publishing the interview along with our preview of all the best horror movies of the upcoming 12 months in the next issue of DVD & Blu-ray Review (in the shops 16 October) but we couldn't fit in everything he said so here's a little anecdote he told us about how he first got into horror movies as a young lad:

"There used to be a route home that I used to walk from school with my friend Norman Jones. On Thursdays Norman and I would make sure we took a little bit of a dogsleg to walk past the place where the posters would be put up - the one-sheets would be put up because the films got changed on a Friday. There used to be a theatre called the Jacey -  a porn cinema essentially: porn one week, art movies the second week, horror movies the third week and then back to porn again. Norman was bigger than I was. He was not only taller but he was tubbier and he got a beard quicker than I did - I didn’t grow a beard or anything even resembling a moustache until I was in my early 20s, it was a real embarrassment, whereas Norman was a werewolf at the age of 15. I would shove hankies in my shoes to give myself some extra height, I would wear my godfather’s captain’s coat which again gave me some bulk and Norman would front the purchase. I would hang in the shadows. You know we were 14, 15 year olds and we were going to see movies for 18 year olds and over. I saw pictures there that became the cornerstones of my experience of horror. I also saw a lot of shit."