Synopsis
Come meet the dead of night.
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of monsters are hiding from humanity.
Nightbreed
Cast
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 Show All…
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Bob Keen Robbie Drake Geoffrey Portass Dave Chagouri Paul Clancy Neville Buchanan Darrell Guyon Junior Tomlin
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Greg Powell Andy Armstrong Paul Jennings Bill Weston Andy Bradford Terry Richards Valentino Musetti Max Faulkner Sadie Eden Frank Henson Jim Dowdall Sean McCabe Wayne Michaels Colin Skeaping Billy Horrigan Bronco McLoughlin Chris Webb Richard Hammatt Tracey Eddon Nick Powell Doug Robinson Steve Whyment Perry Davey Mark McBride
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Bruce Nyznik George Tarrant Jay Wilkinson John Midgley Gary C. Bourgeois Linda Folk Rick Hart James Ashwill Les Wiggins Oscar Mitt Destiny Borden Justin Cruse
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Shaune Harrison Tony Gardner Neill Gorton Grant Mason Steve Painter Mark Coulier Chris Fitzgerald Aileen Seaton Paul Jones Manuel Beccaro Ian Brown Kate Murray Gary Bunn Mark Jones Terence 'Doc' Popolo Rubbio
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Cabal, Razas de noche, Nightbreed: The Cabal Cut, Nightbreed: The Director's Cut, Cabal - Η εκτροφή της νύχτας, Cabal - aretus öö, Clive Barker's Nightbreed, Raça das Trevas, Nightbreed: The Ultimate Cabal Cut, Raça da Noite, Criaturas das Trevas, Cabal - Die Brut der Nacht, Raças da Noite, Ночной народ, Az éjszaka szülöttei, Gecedölü, Nattens yngel, 심야의 공포, 夜行骇传, Yön kansa, Razas de Noche, Nocne plemię, Plod noci, เมืองนรกไม่มีวันตาย
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Theatrical
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USAR
28 Sep 1990
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UK
03 Oct 1990
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Germany16
30 Nov 1990
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ItalyVM14
16 Jan 1991
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France
Physical
14 Oct 2015
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France
17 Mar 2021
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France
16 Jan 1991
- Theatrical
14 Oct 2015
- Physical DVD
17 Mar 2021
- Physical Blu-Ray
Germany
03 Oct 1990
- Theatrical16
Italy
30 Nov 1990
- TheatricalVM14
UK
28 Sep 1990
- Theatrical
USA
16 Feb 1990
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beetlejuice for horny grown ups and daddy cronenberg is the star ?!!??! 🤤🤤
freaks rule! cops and normies suck 🤌 -
Clive Barker’s world of gods and monsters.
I’ll come right out and say it, I love this movie. It’s a story I’ve always been able to connect with over the years, no matter what my age is or whatever is going on in my life.
Nightbreed was always in steady rotation during my vhs days, appealing to younger me with not only horror, fantasy, and cool monsters, but with life messages along the way about acceptance and a sense of belonging, plus I read Cabal in my teens and that was definitely a big eye opener for my imagination as well . Add up all of those elements plus some incredible monster designs/effects and a sadistic David Cronenberg stealing whatever…
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2 be able 2 fly 2 be smoke or a wolf
2 know the night & live in it 43vr
thats not so bad u call us monsters
but when u dream u dream of flying
& changing & living without death
u envy us & what u envy u destroy -
On the one hand, this has some truly clunky and childish 80s fantasy storytelling that becomes hard to make excuses for at this length (the 2-hour director's cut), and Barker for all his impressive depths of gruesome imagination is not particularly deft at the nuts-and-bolts of drama or action filmmaking. It's just a blatant mess, arguably a glorious and ambitious one but a mess nonetheless. On the other hand, you kind of have to respect that a queer horror novelist was given an absurd amount of money to make what he called his "horror Star Wars", and it climaxes on nearly 30 minutes of intricately designed “unnatural” but peaceful monsters popping out of their underground cemetery home (that they've been…
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Practically bursting at the seams with visual imagination and ideas but you can almost see the studio holding Barker back at every point and I just wish we could see what his big gay brain truly could have made if he had been allowed to make the film he wanted. Cronenberg is having way too much fun in this.
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This is a cult classic directed by Clive Barker! It had been decades since I have last seen it! I had even forgotten the story line! It was a very enjoyable fun watch! If you haven’t seen it give it a try or rewatch if you have!
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Still feels fresh and cool every time I go back to it… and that takes a lot of doing these days.
On the outside, Nightbreed is totally '80s: from the fantastic makeup to Danny Elfman's Hellraiser-ish soundtrack; almost like a last solemn farewell to the golden age of Horror. But on the inside, Nightbreed is full-on progressive '90s stuff: An ultra-sharp political allegory about the persecution of outcasts. Ethnic cleansing wrapped up in mythical fantasy.
The Cabal Cut is very much the real deal. The version that started it all. Less "Muppets of Horror", more "Freak Holocaust". More emotionally resonant, focused and cohesive. Simplicity over complication!
Respect to Clive Barker for not giving up on his true version. And mad…
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clive barker is one of the great heroes of neo-expressionism -- all of his films contain the ungainly contortions and baroque darkness of a perverted conceptualist. nightbreed exists in an undeniably queer world, merging horror and camp and inexplicable occult lore into a truly imaginative text that feels like a tim burton movie without all the provincial suburban immaturity that burton was never able to escape from -- barker loves monsters and blood and mystical portents and feels comfortable resting within the mystery of a wide-world which we only see a glimpse of here; nightbreed bursts at the seams with cool shit, too much cool shit for one movie to possibly explore, it's a film that aims for the moon…
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Watched the theatrical cut and loved it. I wonder how much better the director's cut is — 'cause this already rules.
The whole thing works as a pseudo sequel to 'Little Monsters'. Like, what if Fred Savage's character grew up — and was still bothered by all those creatures from under his bed?
That Danny Elfman score is a character in itself.
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"You must find me. Heal me. Save me from my enemies."
Clive Barker's Cabal is a book that would regularly disappear from my library and find a new forever home with my friends and acquaintances. This happens to great books and movies. You lend them out, they get adopted and you never see them again. I think sometimes the books and movies realise that other people need them more than you.
This happens a lot to Clive Barker's works. They come into my life and disappear. Imajica. Great and Secret Show. Everville. Thief of Always. Weaveworld. Hellraiser. Lord of Illusions. I've bought all of them in multiple. But I don't think I really owned any of these stories. I'm like…
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It's absolutely baffling to me why I rated this a mere 2,5 stars on my first watch, because after this afternoon's viewing I recognize Clive Barker's (Hellraiser) Nightbreed for what it really is: pure horror/fantasy extravaganza.
I am so glad Michelle chose this movie for today's multi-continent watch party.
We watched the Director's Cut and it was brilliant.
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