Nightbreed
by Clive Barker
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Actor: Anne Bobby, Charles Haid, Craig Sheffer, David Cronenberg, Hugh QuarshieDirector: Clive Barker
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Robin Vidgeon
Writer: Clive Barker
Editor: Mark Goldblatt
Producer: David Barron
Producer: Gabriella Martinelli
Producer: James G. Robinson
Producer: Joe Roth
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Nightbreed
Movie Review: Pretty good.
Summary: 4 Stars
The first hour of this movie is actually really great. But after that, it gets a little messy and, frankly, a little too "Hollywood-ized." It almost feels tacked on. I feel Clive Barker's next film, Lord Of Illusions, would suffer the same way. It's like he was rushing to wrap things up.
Other than that, this is a solid piece of entertainment. Barker's knack for visual flair is on fine display here and the film is never boring because of it. Danny Elfman provides a thumping score. And how could you resist David Cronenberg as a masked psycho?
Recommended to horror/fantasy fans, but I hope Barker is eventually able to release his director's cut as I feel Nightbreed has the potential to improve greatly with those extra 25 minutes of footage.
Summary of Nightbreed
Set in the canadian wilderness, a search is on for a serial killer and an ancient tribe of monsters called the night-breed.Troubled twentysomething Craig Sheffer is haunted by violent dreams of serial killings and nocturnal invitations by misshapen creatures who live in a misty, mysterious land called Midia. Adapted and directed by Clive Barker (Hellraiser) from his novel Cabal, this tribute to the magical creatures of the night plays like a Jungian reinterpretation of classic myths with a modern twist. Nightbreed are the dead reborn as monsters of legend, fantasies, and nightmares who form their own outcast society in an underground city beneath an Alberta graveyard. Visionary horror director David Cronenberg steps in front of the camera to play Sheffer's unscrupulous psychiatrist, an eerie, unsettling character whose dark side is hidden under a soft-spoken manner and an eerily calm and controlled voice.
Barker has a rather unsubtle approach to this fantastical Holocaust metaphor: every human is a victim, a hick, or a bloodthirsty monster, and the climactic witch-hunt is all gore and spectacle. By contrast the bestial society of outcasts has a kind of natural, innocent savagery that turns protective when the tribe is threatened. Cool-looking beings of bright colors, latex masks, and outrageous bodysuits, they band together like some extreme mutant superhero team with anger-management issues. Barker could use more attention to details (what happened to the so-called mystic properties of his shape-shifting monster heroes when the guns were drawn?), but there's an undeniable charge to his modern take on myth and magic. --Sean Axmaker
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