Nightbreed (Director's Cut)

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We're over the moon, I mean, to get a title like this, again, a Holy Grail title like this, it just kinda blows our mind." In 2019, Trace Thurman of Bloody Disgusting wrote that the Nightbreed as depicted in the film "represent queerness, or any fill-in-the-blank ' Other' you can think of." [12] Noting that, beyond writer-director Clive Barker being "one of the most famous queer horror artists of our time [...] The narrative itself is filled to the brim with queerness and serves as an allegory for intolerance. Can anyone watch Nightbreed and not automatically associate the titular creatures with queer people? They've been outcast by society and are deemed as dangerous by the 'normal' people. The climax of the film culminates in an assault on the Nightbreed's home base of Midian as the 'normies' would rather kill all of them as opposed to understand them." [12] That same year, Leigh Monson of Birth. Movies. Death. wrote that the director's cut of the film "places on display the full scope of a narrative that is a broad and potent allegory for the persecution of the queer community." [13] New Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles - 10 June 2012, with Mark Miller and Russell Cherrington - a second screening added, so both 7:30 and 11pm SpectreFest will be screening the Director's Cut of Nightbreed in Los Angeles in October with a Q&A planned with Clive.

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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." Hellraiser Nightbreed: Jihad #1 - (comic book issue)". Comic Vine. June 6, 2008 . Retrieved July 8, 2011.We did a brand-new transfer [of the theatrical cut], about a month ago, from the inter-positive that Warner Bros. had, because the only other HD transfer that Warner had was an interlaced transfer and there was no way we were going to use that for this release, so yeah we did a brand-new transfer so the theatrical cut is from the new transfer and then the Director's Cut will be using that new HD transfer and then, when we transferred the missing footage we transferred it from the original camera negative so actually that footage may look a bit better than the actual movie does, because, you know, an inter-positive is a generation down from the negative... Please stay in touch with local organisers as final arrangements can and do change. See Occupy Midian for more details... By The Horror Honeys, Moviepilot, 4 September 2014 (note: full text online at http://moviepilot.com)

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Leitao, Jose (April 12, 2012). " The Cabal Cut Viral Trailer hits YouTube!". The Clive Barker Podcast . Retrieved April 13, 2012. "Occupy Midian" was a name thought up by Anne Bobby during an interview with the Clive Barker Podcast. This group aims to work in close co-operation with the creative people currently restoring the film.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] For the film, Barker used three soundstages at Pinewood Studios shooting some scenes on location at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK over several nights and in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. [16] Bob Keen and his crew had two months to play around with ideas before doing any modeling work. They used computer-controlled animatronics but only where necessary. [23] Towards the end of principal photography, Barker brought Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie in to paint mattes for the Necropolis sequences and design the history of the Breed in a symbolic way on an enormous mural across a 60-foot space on the set at Pinewood to be used in the opening credits. [24]

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Hermans, Grant (September 30, 2020). "Exclusive: Godzilla's Michael Dougherty to Direct Nightbreed Series!". Coming Soon . Retrieved October 24, 2020. Barton, Steve (February 4, 2010). "See Nightbreed Uncut for the First Time Ever". DreadCentral.com . Retrieved April 12, 2012.

UPDATE - July 2012

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. Restored Nightbreed Cut Gets DVD Release. 'The Cabal Cut' is finally official - by Owen Williams July 23, 2013, Empire Online We haven't even started yet. I mean, we are going to do a new hi-def transfer of the original film and we'll do what can be done with the rough footage to try and make it less jarring but there's no film, the film has gone. I mean, that's the thing the fans don't understand most of the time, is that studios never kept the daily footage, the raw footage; they just threw it away... We felt the Cabal Cut was such a fan-favourite that it was worth going and acquiring it and we're going to do everything that we can to make it look and sound fantastic. a b Benshoff, Harry M. (1997). Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film. Inside Popular Film. Manchester University Press. p.260. ISBN 978-0793837557.

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Theatrical Cut: This is the theatrical release, reshot and edited in a way that skewed it toward a slasher film, which was not Clive Barker’s intention. This was originally available on VHS/Laser Disc, and then a bare-bones DVD in North America in 2002. It was also called “Cabal” in an Italian release, but don’t mistake that for the Cabal Cut, which we’ll talk about a little later. SpectreFest at Cinefamily, Los Angeles - 16 October 2014, with Q&A - Clive Barker, art display. *Sold Out*

Again, heartfelt thanks from Clive and ourselves - our quest for a DVD release of the extended Nightbreed as Clive originally intended it continues... Nightbreed returned in 1992, as a short story in the second issue of the four issue Epic anthology series. [54] It's going to take us some time to do some restoration work and really do a lot of extra features on it but it's going to be our big title for next year, I think."