Clive Barker's Nightbreed

[denofearth]

One of my favorite horror and fantasy films ever! this is Barker's most underrated film and quite an imaginative film with an excellent performance by David Cronenberg (director of The Fly, Scanners, The Brood, History of Violence, Videodrome etc.) who plays Deckar the doll-masked killer/psychologist who knows the secret of the monster society.

I saw this in theaters 3 times when i was 8 years old and even had a t-shirt yet i still own the comics and CD soundtrack plus i had a poster plus some Fangoria issues about it as i collected Fangoria since i was 4 with Starlog as well.

It's based on Clive Barker's published book in 1988 Cabal as Barker decided to do a film version of his book the same year for an August 1989 release date for Fox/Morgan Creek as he filmed it then was forced to reshoot the film in August 1989 for a different version and his other version was not seen again as the film felt incomplete when it came out in Februrary 1990. Recently since 2010 the original cut has been found and has been in the works since 2011 for 2 and a half year to have both theatrical and original footage spliced into the film to make a longer cut with stuff never seen before plus does more explaining about the monsters of Midian. It's like Island of Dr. Moreau, Pan's Labyrinth, Gargoyles (the animated show) and Avatar all rolled into one.

The new Cabal cut has been shown in film festivals and midnight shows thanks to Occupy Films and Clive himself and around Halloween, Scream Factory with Warner/Morgan creek just released the Director's Cut from found footage that was found and the original camera negative of the original cut to the public at last just like Scream/Anchor Bay/Starz joined together to bring Halloween 6 The Producer's Cut on blu-ray with a quality resoration and i got the 3-disc LE blu-ray for a good price of 50 on Barnes and Nobel and i watched both TC then DC as i gotta say both look amazing on HD and the DC is a better cut than the TC as it's a completely different film even the ending.

A TV show spin-off is in the works coming next year from Barker and Morgan Creek as it does have potential to explore the NB universe and all that.

[geminiman112]

I haven't seen the new Cabal film but Nightbreed might be my favorite film of all time. Nightbreed is also one of the few flicks I own on DVD. Really underrated.

[Frameous]

I like this film a great deal. Sadly, I felt the fabled director's cut was a mixed bag (that music number, sheesh...). Still, I'm glad to see the film getting more attention. I wish Barker would try his hand at directing again.

[denofearth]

Dec 19, 2014 4:21:20 GMT -5 geminiman112 said:

I haven't seen the new Cabal film but Nightbreed might be my favorite film of all time. Nightbreed is also one of the few flicks I own on DVD. Really underrated.

You should check out the director's cut, it's better than the TC.