Barbie Wilde

In pursuit of an acting career, Canadian actress Barbie Wilde moved to London, England many years ago. Wilde has performed in cabaret in Bangkok; traveled to Bombay to appear in the Bollywood blockbuster, 'Janbazz', which also starred Anil Kapoor of 'Slumdog Millionaire' fame; robotically mimed with English TV legends Morecombe and Wise; and danced professionally at the top nightclubs of New York City, London and Amsterdam with the dance/mime group, Shock. She has also appeared as the Female Cenobite in the classic cult horror movie 'Hellbound: Hellraiser II' and as a vicious mugger in 'Death Wish III'. Wilde has worked as an assistant casting director for the BBC production of 'The Buddha of Suburbia' and as a casting director for MTV's London production of 'The Real World'. While working as a television presenter/host/scriptwriter, she has appeared in 'The American Hot 100' (Skytrax TV); 'The Morning Show' and 'Supersonic' (Music Box TV); 'The Small Screen', a film review program for London Weekend Television; 'Hold Tight' (where she interview Cliff Richard, Iggy Pop, the B52s and John Lydon); a music show for Granada Television and a live music program, 'The Gig', for London Weekend Television. Barbie also co-presented 'Sprockets' in 1991, a film program for Dandelion Productions that still shows regularly on SKY TV in the UK. In 2009, Wilde contributed a well-received short story, entitled 'Sister Cilice', to the 'Hellbound Hearts' Anthology (Pocket Books), edited by Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan. The stories in Hellbound Hearts were based on Clive Barker's mythology from his novella 'The Hellbound Heart', the basis for the 'Hellraiser' film franchise. In 2011-17, Wilde contributed 10 more short stories to different horror and crime anthologies: 'U for Uranophobia' for 'Phobophobia'; 'American Mutant: Hands of Dominion' for 'Mutation Nation'; 'Polyp' for 'The Mammoth Book of Body Horror' (reprinted in 'The Unspoken' in 2013); 'A is for Alpdrücke' for 'The Demonologia Biblica'; 'Zulu Zombies' for 'Bestiarum Vocabulum' (reprinted in Gorezone #29); 'The Cilicium Pandoric' for Gorezone #30; 'Mr Duggin's Stigmata', 'Botophobia' for 'Phobophobias', 'Blue Eyes' for 'Green and Pleasant Land' and "Patient K" (Dark Discoveries Magazine and Demain Publishing). Wilde's first novel, 'The Venus Complex', a fictionalized diary of a serial killer, was published by Comet Press in late 2012. America's best-selling horror magazine, Fangoria, has called Wilde "one of the finest purveyors of erotically charged horror fiction around". In 2015, SST Publications published a full color, illustrated short horror story collection called 'Voices of the Damned', which contained 9 of Wilde's stories to date, plus two previously unpublished ones. All the stories in the collection were accompanied by top artists of the horror genre, such as Clive Barker, Nick Percival, Daniele Serra, Vincent Sammy, Ben Baldwin, Tara Bush, Steve McGinnis and Eric Gross. Publishers Weekly gave the book a starred review, calling it "...a delight for the darker senses, this is a satisfying triumph in a befitting, unforgiving, style. " In early 2018, Wilde joined forces with director, writer and composer Chris Alexander ('Blood for Irina', 'Queen of Blood', 'Female Werewolf', 'Blood Dynasty', 'Space Vampire') to co-produce and co-write a horror film called 'Blue Eyes', based on a short story by Wilde. In November 2018, Comet Press released the audio book of The Venus Complex, narrated by Hellraiser horror icon, Doug Bradley.