Nightbreed
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| Directed by | Clive Barker |
| Produced by | Gabriella Martinelli |
| Written by | Clive Barker (novel "Cabal" and screenplay) |
| Starring | Craig Sheffer Anne Bobby David Cronenberg Charles Haid Hugh Ross Doug Bradley Special appearance by John Agar |
| Music by | Danny Elfman |
| Cinematography | Robin Vidgeon |
| Editing by | Mark Goldblatt Richard Marden |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | February 16, 1990 (USA) |
| Running time | 102 min |
| Language | English |
| Budget | Unknown |
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Nightbreed is a 1990 movie based on Clive Barker's novella Cabal. It was directed by Clive Barker and suffered several inadequate edits. To this day, Barker expresses a disappointment with the final cut and longs for the recovery of the reels so it might be freshly edited.[citation needed] It was intended as "the Star Wars of monster movies", with over two hundred monsters created by Image Animation.[citation needed]
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[edit] Plot
The movie centres around Aaron Boone (portrayed by Craig Sheffer), a man plagued by dreams of a city called Midian, populated by bizarre creatures and deviants of all types who refer to themselves as the "Nightbreed". Aaron is framed for several murders by his psychopathic therapist, subsequently killed by police and resurrected by the magic of Midian. Boone joins forces with the other monsters to defend themselves from the true monsters of the story: humankind.
David Cronenberg, despite primarily being a film director, starred as Decker, the therapist who frames Boone. Doug Bradley, who collaborated with Clive Barker as Pinhead in Hellraiser, plays Lylesburg; the Breed's self-elected lawmaker.
[edit] Comic book series
In 1990, to tie in with the release of the Nightbreed movie, Epic Comics produced a four-issue adaptation of the film, which included significant differences from the finished movie, more closely related to Clive Barker's original script. The comic book continued to run past the end of the movie, ultimately stretching to twenty five issues before it was cancelled.
[edit] Videogames
An interactive movie-style videogame based on the film was released on the Commodore Amiga shortly after the movie's release. Loosely following the same plot, it intersperses various action sequences though was not highly regarded[1]. A traditional action game was also released for the Amiga, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC.[2][3][4]
[edit] Trivia
- The Horror Punk band Frankenstein Drag Queens, fronted by Wednesday 13 have a song named "nightbreed" on their album 6 years, 6 feet under the influence
- The punk band Screeching Weasel produced a song named "Nightbreed" on their album Thank You Very Little.
- The metal band Cradle of Filth released an album entitled Midian in 2000 which is conceptually set in the fictional city.
- The Director's cut of Nightbreed will be released on DVD with 25 minutes of additional material if Clive Barker can find the missing footage, according to his site.
- The studio had so little faith in the film that the original teaser posters used images not from the movie, but ones that were recycled from the poster of Bad Dreams, a little-seen 1988 horror movie.
- A softcover book was released around the same time as the film which featured photos and back stories of the main characters as well as minor characters seen only in the background throughout the movie.
[edit] References
- ^ Erde Kaiser. HouseofGames.net- Night Breed. [1]. Retrieved on January 12, 2007.
- ^ HouseofGames.net - Night Breed.
- ^ World of Sinclair. Night Breed.
- ^ Your Sinclair: Nightbreed
- Clive Barker's The Nightbreed Chronicles; Clive Barker, Murray Close, Stephen Jones; ISBN 1-85286-260-2
- Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Making of the Film; Clive Barker, Mark Salisbury, John Gilbert; ISBN 0-00-638136-7
[edit] External links
- Revelations - The Official Clive Barker Resource
- Information about Nightbreed Director's Cut
- Nightbreed Script & Resources
- Nightbreed at the Internet Movie Database
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| Stand-alone: The Damnation Game | The Hellbound Heart | Weaveworld | Imajica | Books of Blood | The Thief of Always | Sacrament | Galilee | Coldheart Canyon |
| Books of the Art: The Great and Secret Show | Everville |
| The Abarat Quintet: Abarat | Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War | Abarat: Absolute Midnight | Abarat: The Eternal | [untitled fifth book] |
| Short story collections: Books of Blood | Cabal | In the Flesh | The Inhuman Condition | The Scarlet Gospels |
| Films |
| Directed by Clive Barker: Salome | The Forbidden | Hellraiser | Nightbreed | Lord of Illusions | Tortured Souls: Animae Damnatae |
| Directed by others: Rawhead Rex | Underworld | Candyman | Saint Sinner |
| Other |
| Art collections: Clive Barker, Illustrator | Illustrator II: The Art of Clive Barker | Clive Barker Visions of Heaven and Hell |
| Plays: Incarnations: Three Plays | Forms of Heaven: Three Plays |
| Video games: Clive Barker's Undying | Demonik | Clive Barker's Jericho |
| Recurring characters |
| Cenobites | Pinhead | Harry D'Amour |
