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The One Gruesome “Hannibal” Death Scene That NBC Did Not Allow

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While they may have cancelled the show after just three seasons, one has to commend NBC for even allowing “Hannibal” to go on for that long. Despite the ratings never being all that impressive, the network stuck with the show for three seasons, allowing some of the most insane carnage we’ve ever seen on the small screen.

But NBC wasn’t on board with *everything* the writers dreamed up.

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, creator Bryan Fuller just revealed the Season 1 death scene that the network didn’t go for. In Episode 11 of the first season, titled “Rôti,” Dr. Abel Gideon (Eddie Izzard) gives psychiatrist Paul Carruthers a “Colombian necktie,” slitting his throat and pulling his tongue through the gaping wound.

But that wasn’t the originally scripted death for Carruthers.

EW explains, “Originally the plan was for Gideon to lure tabloid blogger Freddie Lounds to a psychiatrist’s office, where she would flip a light switch, unwittingly activating a ceiling fan that was attached to an incision in the living doctor’s abdomen.”

[It] essentially disembowels him by spinning the fan, all in one fell swoop,” Fuller told the site, “That was the only one where NBC was like, ‘I just don’t know how you’re going to do it.’ We would have pushed back if we also hadn’t been told that financially we didn’t know how we could afford to produce such a gag, because you have intestines swinging around a ceiling fan.”

EW was even provided with a gory illustration of the unfilmed death scene!

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One of Clive Barker’s Final Convention Appearances Will Be at New Jersey’s Monster Mania in August

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We told you earlier this month that horror legend Clive Barker is leaving the convention scene behind to focus entirely on his writing, with various upcoming projects in the works.

A series of final appearances from Barker will begin at Days of the Dead Chicago this month, and we’ve learned Barker will also be coming to Monster Mania in New Jersey.

Clive Barker will be signing at Monster Mania 59 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which runs from August 2 – August 4, 2024. Stay tuned for more info from the convention.

Barker’s official statement earlier this month explained, “… it’s time to focus entirely on writing. I’m not stopping public events because I’ve lost delight in meeting you all over the years. I’m as passionate as ever about sharing my imagination with readers and moviegoers around the world. In the very room where I’m writing these words, I have the manuscripts for a very large number of projects (Thirty-one of them), some very close to completion, others still telling themselves. There are some wild projects in this collection of works, whether close to finished or done. There are also stories that you all knew I would be finishing.”

“Abarat IV and V are amongst the books at my feet,” he continued. “So is the Third and final book of The Art and the sequel to The Thief of Always. There are also return visits to characters and mythologies you may have thought I would never return to.

“I hope I am still able to surprise you in the decades ahead.”

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