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Nightbreed

Seraphim Films

Morgan Creek Entertainment

United States of America

English

Craig Sheffer

Anne Bobby

David Cronenberg

Charles Haid

Hugh Quarshie

Hugh Ross

Doug Bradley

Catherine Chevalier

Malcolm Smith

Bob Sessions

Oliver Parker

Debora Weston

Nicholas Vince

Simon Bamford

Christine McCorkindale

John Agar

Jack Bennett

Alexis De La Rocha

Kim Robertson

Nina Robertson

Tony Bluto

Vincent Keene

Bernard Henry

Richard Van Spall

David Young

Valda Aviks

Mac McDonald

Richard Bowman

McNally Sagal

Daniel Kash

Bradley Lavelle

Stephen Hoye

Tom Hunsinger

George Roth

Peter Marinker

Lindsay Holiday

Kenneth Nelson

Carolyn Jones

Ted Maynard

Mitch Webb

Eric Loren

Peter Atkins

Clive Barker

Chris Cunningham

Danny Elfman

James G. Robinson

Robin Vidgeon

Steve Hardie

Gabriella Martinelli

Richard Marden

Neill Gorton

Mark Goldblatt

Ann Hollowood

Ricky Eyres

Doug Robinson

Chris Webb

Steven Painter

Robert Fernandez

Kathy Sinclair

James Ashwill

Jay Wilkinson

Cynthia Haagens

Shaune Harrison

Heather Jones

Benjamin Stuart Thompson

Mark Alan Miller

Chris Fitzgerald

Tony Gardner

Tom Brown

Bob Keen

Peter Kuran

Perry Davey

Bronco McLoughlin

David Worley

Daryl Bristow

Jessica Dwyer

Michael G. Plumides Jr.

Terence 'Doc' Popolo Rubbio

Peter Freeman

Gary C. Bourgeois

Linda Folk

Les Wiggins

Paul Clancy

Jim Dowdall

Frank Henson

Terry Richards

Joe Roth

Aileen Seaton

Rory Fellowes

Billy Horrigan

Wayne Michaels

Valentino Musetti

Gary Hutchings

Clive Mackey

John Ward

Shirley Walker

Cris Alex

David Barron

David Robinson

William Parnell

Manuel Beccaro

Geoffrey Portass

Sadie Eden

Steve Whyment

Keith Blake

Ryan Danhauser

Mark Coulier

Mark William Robinson

Bruce Nyznik

Chris Corbould

Dave Chagouri

Andrew Wilkinson

Mark Jones

Richard Hammatt

Nigel Seal

Gary A. Williams

David Ari Leon

Alan Harris

Kate Murray

Max Faulkner

Colin Skeaping

Peter Boita

Sally Boldt

Libbie Barr

Justin Cruse

Ian Brown

Terry Adlam

Neil Culley

Mark McBride

Steve Dillon

Andrew Kasch

Robbie Drake

Paul Jones

Jesse V. Johnson

Ralph McQuarrie

Peter Palmer

Rick Hart

Neville Buchanan

The movie fails to provide vital information about its world, either early enough or altogether. Without an understanding of what's happening on the screen, the initial story developments fail to make an emotional connection. What the viewer is left with is an appreciation for the darkly fantastical world and the technical prowess it would have required by the film crew to create. (Some of us will also appreciate the protagonist's beauty.)

What a difficult thing it is to review this movie. First the movie most people have seen is not the movie Clive Barker created, as the studio did the final cut without Barker's approval or even contacting him at all. So the studio (and the infamous test audience, people with no intelligence and movie or art knowledge) released what they thought ot be a summer monster movie ...
The Director's cut released way later is closer to what Barker wanted, but with time, some tapes had disappeared, and Barker had moved on, so what the prognal movie should have been is a mystery.
So we have Boone, a guy plagued with nightmares of monsters living in a strange city, living with his girlfriend Lori that is a singer in a bar. He wants to live a normal life and has hopes his psychiatrist will help him. To make things short, the psychiatrist is interested in the monsters and Boone gets killed but is reborn as a monster. Then "humans" to eradicate them.
I never go in the subtext of the movies as I look for entertainment in watching movies. So of course here its obvious that the theme is human instinct is to fear and kill what's different, either other humans or animals. But if you see only the in this movie, you'll lose 2 hours and won't like it as the monsters and Boone will just seem stupid to explore this theme.
I prefer to think most Directors / writers will write a story based on the world they live in and the knowledge they have of it and the memories they have of history, what happeded to them and their close ones. Here Barker is much more interested in creating a world and legend of monsters than really showing humanity's weaknesses. And he does it brillantly. His monster society and history is deep, the craftsmanship of the costumes is insane, and even Dekker (played by David Cronenberg) is a good character, even the priest os a good character, even Lori is a good character, and that makes a good and enjoyable movie. I even enjoyed the "theatrical cut" as at the time we didn't know it was an awkward stodio cut.

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This review is of the  Director's Cut which has 45 minutes of changed footage (a lot added and some removed/replaced)...
The Director's cut is basically a different movie, that tells a different and much more complete story. Way more footage of the monsters in Midian... backstory on the main monsters... an ending that makes total sense.
The movie that Clive Barker wanted to release, before the studio tried to turn it into a slasher flick. The story in the Director's Cut is much closer to the story in the book [Cabal]. The movie as it should have been in the theatrical release. Well worth a watch (now).

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