If you haven't heard of Nightbreed its Clive Barker's ambitious adaptation of his novel Cabal. It stars David Cronenberg as serial killing psychiatrist Dekker, and Craig Sheffer as his patient Boon, framed for his murders. Shot down by the cops, Boon is resurrected in the secret mythical city of Midian, where the monsters live, and joins them as they defend the gates of the city against the "real monsters" from the normal world.
Its a decent, under rated, but admittedly uneven movie, spawned from a far superior novel and Epic(remember them?) comic series. Apparently the film was drastically interfered with by its studio(they cut it down to under 90 minutes) and has always been the subject of controversy, and rabid fan speculation of what may have been. Now the full 145 minute work print of the directors cut of
Nightbreed has surfaced, and will screen for the first time at a Horrorhound convention next month.
Its not known if the movie will be restored to full cinema standard quality for re release, but i'm sure its bound to find its way on to DVD/Blu Ray at some stage, so if your a horror fan I recommend you check it out..and check out the original too, its certainly flawed, but well worth a watch.
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