Nightbreed (Director's Cut)

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Unaware of the trouble Barker had to deal with from the slasher-hungry studios, I just loved the Theatrical Cut from the moment I saw it. I also really appreciated the Director's Cut and the gaps in the narrative it filled. Nightbreed is a true original and for that alone it's worth celebrating. Barker's original vision may have been assembled late in his life but that has to count for something that it was achieved at all. Bravo to all concerned with its resurrection. Well recommended. A 12 issue mini-series was published by BOOM! Studios in 2014-2015 following the storyline of the Director's Cut of the film. [55] Video games [ edit ] Morgan Creek reportedly began developing a television series based on the original film in 2014. [63] [64] In the following year, Morgan Creek announced the sale of the domestic rights to its library of 78 films, but the production company plans to retain the TV rights to Nightbreed. [65] In June 2018, Syfy, Morgan Creek and Barker teamed up to develop the series. [66] It is being written by Josh Stolberg and directed by Michael Dougherty for SyFy. [67] [68] The Cabal Cut [ edit ] During an interview in 2022 on The Ghost of Hollywood, cinematographer Robin Vidgeon, mentioned that he disliked working with David Cronenberg, stating Cronenberg complained to Clive that he was being usurped. [25] Morgan Creek: "So I have a bit of sad news to relay. After MUCH digging, hunting and trying our best to unearth where (if at all) the missing Nightbreed footage might be, we've come up empty handed. Therefore, that VHS that was screened at the convention is the ONLY footage that exists of a director's cut."

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Two short TV ads which as far as I can make out are identical. The same ridiculous low register voice over misrepresenting the film is featured on each. At the time of its release, the film was a commercial and critical failure. In several interviews, Barker protested that the film company tried to sell it as a standard slasher film, [3] and that the powers-that-be had no real working knowledge of Nightbreed 's story. [4] Since its initial theatrical release, Nightbreed has become a cult film. [5] [6] Hellraiser Nightbreed: Jihad #1 - (comic book issue)". Comic Vine. June 6, 2008 . Retrieved July 8, 2011. Ashberry Finds The Chamber: Another VHS/35mm hybrid cut. If nothing else this clip shows you how vital and important sound actually is. With only the sound recorded at the time, the sequence is ridiculous. colour shots of Peloquin and Shuna Sassi in a scene glimpsed by the main front credit but not in the movie itself. But it looks as if they both really enjoyed themselves, snakes permitting.

The head of marketing at Morgan Creek never even saw the movie all the way through, and he was the guy publicising the movie! He could never make it through the film; it disgusted and distressed him. He said to me at one point, 'You’re an intelligent man, why do you make these movies? They're disgusting and horrible.' And this guy was selling the movie!" When the push began for Nightbreed, Clive Barker’s follow up to the cult hit Hellraiser,in 1990, the marketing made the film feel like just another slasher film. The confusing advertisements couldn’t seem to decide whether the film’s killer was a button eyed, masked killer or the film’s lead character Boone, played by Craig Sheffer, leaving fans scratching their collective heads over what this coming horror joint was even about. The theatrical posters for Nightbreedread “Lori thought she knew everything about her boyfriend… Lori was wrong!” a b "Q&A session with Clive Barker & Peter Atkins". 5th Annual LA Times Festival of Books April 29th, 2000. Clivebarker.com . Retrieved March 22, 2012. Audio commentary on the director’s cut by writer/director Clive Barker and restoration producer Mark Alan Miller

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After many years of replying, "I hope so, but we don't know where the footage is," Clive's answer is now, "Maybe yes, if enough people want to buy it..."Again, as it says on the tin. It's the torture scene but... extended! I simply cannot take this scene seriously anymore now I know that the streamers are simply unspooled videotape! Unbelievable news. When Mark Miller... (apologies.I am shaking with excitement) Mark volunteered to try and find my cut of Nightbreed. I thought there was 25 minutes missing. I was wrong. Phil and Sarah Stokes called. They possess a video copy of my Work Print, 44 minutes longer than the theatrical release. Gwinnett Performing Arts Center, Duluth, GA - 27 July 2013, with Russell Cherrington, Craig Sheffer. This is a sort of Holy Grail, at least it is for me and I think for Mark as well. We are going to release Clive Barker's Nightbreed the Cabal Cut... Barker always loved monsters and felt that "there's a corner of all of us that envies their powers and would love to live forever, or to fly, or to change shape at will. So, when I came to make a movie about monsters, I wanted to create a world we'd feel strangely at home in". [15] He was interested in creating a "horror mythology from the ground up" and developing characters that would live on in sequels. [16] As he finished writing the novella Cabal, he realized that it would make a good film that he would direct himself. [17] He originally envisioned a trilogy of films. [18] [19] Mark Frost wrote the initial draft of the screenplay for Barker. [20]

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Halley, Stefan. "10 Films that have gone from Crap to Cult". Eat Sleep Live Film. Archived from the original on November 23, 2012 . Retrieved March 22, 2012. Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Action Game". GameSpot. December 31, 1990 . Retrieved July 28, 2014. a b Bramesco, Charles (March 15, 2021). "Clive Barker's cut of Nightbreed was too opulently homoerotic for the studio". The A.V. Club . Retrieved September 2, 2022. Kim Robertson and Nina Robertson as Babette, the Nightbreed daughter of Rachel who has the same traits as her.It'll probably take a while to put out because we do need to restore all the footage that was, that really only exists in one format at the moment. So we're going to have to completely restore it, try to get it to look as close as it can to... We're going to do it."

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In 2013, Shout! Factory released The Cabal Cut on DVD. [77] [78] This version was later clarified to be a brand new director's cut that uses the footage and not the full Cabal Cut. [79] Nightbreed has been characterized as containing themes related to queerness and the LGBT community. In 1997, author Harry M. Benshoff called it, "One of the first horror films to make an explicit connection between monsters and the activist politics of the queer community". [8] Andreeva, Nellie (June 22, 2018). " 'Nightbreed' TV Series Reboot From Clive Barker & Morgan Creek In Works At Syfy". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved October 24, 2020. Barton, Steve (February 4, 2010). "See Nightbreed Uncut for the First Time Ever". DreadCentral.com . Retrieved April 12, 2012.Epic-Con Ohio: Geekfest, Dayton - 25 October 2014, with Simon Bamford, Anne Bobby, Chris Mc Corkindale. Joyce Finds Babette (Alternate): I can't remember the dog faced breed in the film but here he/she is dead or dying as the detective finds Babette weeping next to its body. Lori Saves Babette (Alternate): This is the one I really missed. How an animated creature can evoke so much sympathy... I guess it's all down to the performance of the actor interacting with it. Whoah! That's what I get for pre-empting. This scene is actually after Babette has been reunited with er mother and is an alternate of Lori's conversation with Lylesberg. The clip I thought it was can be found in Tribes of the Moon an earlier extra. But it was David Cronenberg who stole the show as the button eyed killer, Dekker. Already a horror legend behind the camera, Cronenberg delivered a manic performance that really set the tone for the film. Dekker was the ultimate human monster and the perfect antithesis to the real monsters of Midian. He was the beast even the beasts rejected and Cronenberg made Dekker one of the genre’s most chilling killers. Barker said about what Cronenberg brought to Nightbreed: Films Still To Come...?". The Official Clive Barker Resource: Revelations. Archived from the original on May 12, 2005 . Retrieved March 22, 2012.