Tortured Souls

Tortured Souls, also known as Clive Barker's Tortured Souls, is a series of six action figures and a novelette starring the characters of the series. Distributed by McFarlane Toys on July 2001, the series included six monsters designed by horror author Clive Barker. Each of the figures included a chapter of the 32-page novelette, written by Barker.

Due to the success of the idea, a second series titled Tortured Souls 2: The Fallen was released the following year. The appearance of the new figures was more visceral than the first toy line, with less reliance on the bondage-like clothing styles of the first series and more reliance on surgical alteration and mutilation or, as Clive Barker described it, "the use of flesh as canvas." Additionally, characters of Tortured Souls 2: The Fallen neither appeared in the original novella nor came with any additional story writing.

A movie about the series, Tortured Souls: Animae Damnatiae, has been discussed since the release of the first series, but as of July 2005 there is very little confirmed.

From what Clive Barker stated, the film will cover a much larger scope and reveal more of Tortured Souls' world, rather than the limited story that was initially released with the first series of figures.

Characters

• Agonistes
• Lucidique
• Mongroid
• The Scythe-Meister
• Talisac
• Venal Anatomica

Characters from Tortured Souls 2: The Fallen

• Szaltax
• Zain
• Suffering Bob
• Feverish
• Moribundi
• Camille Noire

Tortured Souls: The Legend of Primordium

Main article: Tortured Souls: The Legend of Primordium

Tortured Souls: The Legend of Primordium is one of the most vividly imagined, tightly compressed novellas ever written by the incomparable Clive Barker. At once violent and erotic, brutal and strangely beautiful, it takes us into the heart of the legendary “first city” known as Primordium, the site of political upheaval, passionate encounters, and astonishing acts of transformation.

Lurking at the edges of this extravagant tale is the ancient entity known as “Agonistes,” who accepts the pleas of selected “Supplicants,” transforming them, through a combination of art, magic, and pain, into avatars of violence and revenge.

The story begins when a freelance assassin named Zarles Krieger commits a routine murder-for-hire. This act will lead him to two life-altering encounters, one with the daughter of his victim, the other with Agonistes himself. This conjunction of the human and the inhuman stands at the center of this instantly absorbing creation.

With great authority and equally great economy, Tortured Souls expands to become a portrait of Primordium itself, with its hierarchies, its hidden mysteries, its shifting power structure, and—most significantly—its indelible cast of characters. A perfectly controlled example of what Barker calls “the fantastique,” Tortured Souls is something truly special, a story whose imaginative reach and sheer narrative power are evident on every page.

A single volume of the six separate pieces of the novella will be published by Subterranean Press in February 2015.

Tortured Souls: Animae Damnatae

Main article: Tortured Souls: Animae Damnatae

Tortured Souls: Animae Damnatae is a film adaption of Clive Barker’s original line of Tortured Souls toys. It is still in preproduction, so any information is viable to change. The tagline for the film is Six Destinies – One Legacy.

News of the plotline is that it revolves around the city of Primordium, a corrupt monarchy governed city. You follow the 6 characters of Agonistes, a transformer of flesh, an ancient entity that was possibly created by God; The Scythe-Meister, an assassin that was transformed by Agonistes, built to bring the corrupt empire to its knees; Lucidique, the daughter of a Senator killed by the Scythe-Meister, who brings her to Agonistes for transformation, and who falls strangely in love with him; Dr. Talisac, a twisted doctor, addicted to many of his own medications, who creates a womb for himself for his creation to grow, and attaches himself to a machine; Venal Anatomica, a hulking assassin created by Dr. Talisac, he feels no fear or loyalty to his creator, only to the General that commands him; The Mongroid, the creature that grew in Talisac’s womb, more bestial than human, he possesses a well formed head, and a gaping maw coming from his stomach.

External links

• Tortured Souls
• Tortured Souls 2: The Fallen
• IMDB Tortured Souls
• Primordium - song by Labyrintheory on Amazon.com