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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790762005 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 0790762005 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: August 21, 2001 Running Time: 102 minutes Sales Rank: 43721 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: February 16, 1990
Amazon.com: 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Disappointing
I love horror movies and good vs evil themes. However this movie was really disappointing. Not scary, not unique, and very dated. Doesn't hold up to classic horror movies or more current ones. Instead, check out Jeeper Creepers, Mothman Prophesies, but don't waste your time here.
Rating: - Interesting! Bizarre?
This movie isn't bad! It's not bad at all! In fact, I'd even hazard my reputation by saying it's...good?
Firstly, I've seen the first two hellraiser movies. I've also played some Clive Barker video games and read some of his fiction. Honestly, I've never really been that impressed by his work...until I saw Nightbreed fifteen minutes ago. I won't go into the story, since others here have given absurdly comprehensive details, but here are my thoughts:
A great cast (with great performances from all, including David Cronenburg), a wonderful score by Danny Elfman, incredible ... Read More
Rating: - One of Clive Barker's Best Horror Tales
I love all of Clive Barker's Works.
This particular storyline follows the Kabala as well as the Christian Bible, it makes you think; as well as feel.
Those individuals who have seen/felt Death, can write objectively about it, as Mr. Barker has. I would love to meet him.
Rating: - Awesome
Great movie, hillarious. I love the 80's movies and they are always good for a few laughs. This one had been reccommended to me and I love it! It's one of the cheesiest movies I have seen in awhile. Basic premise of the movie is the Nightbreed live in the cemetary, they are an ancient civilization that have been prosecuted for centuries and you can become one of them. The main character does just that and helps them fight against the redneck militia who are out to destroy them, led by a psychotic psychiatrist who wants to be one of them. A little bit of T&A due to the fact that it's an 80's ... Read More
Rating: - Clive Barker...need I say more?
If you like his books, you'll like this film. Holds up pretty well.
So - who are the real monsters? You figure it out.
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