Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

julian kennedy Nightbreed is an early nineties horror film by Clive Barker that has developed a decent cult following and has a newly restored director's cut that includes a half hour of previously cut footage and apparently changes the ending. It tells the story of a young man who dreams of a place called Midian where an extremely varied group of monsters hide from humanity that hunts them.The Good: David Cronenberg. Yes, this is a film written and directed by horror auteur Clive Barker but it is David Cronenberg that steals the show. David plays a soft-spoken serial killer wearing a Coraline mask simply slaughtering all that come before him while setting up our protagonist to take the fall. The creature designs are also, on the whole, very well done. It is a delight to see McDonald's moon mascot Mac Tonight in his big screen debut.The Bad: David Cronenberg's character really should have had his own movie. The story of the creatures also really needed their own story. Putting both together seems to cheat each story. The feeling one gets is as if halfway through Jaws Richard Dreyfuss' character started making mashed potato mountains on the Orca and left the boat to hook up with Terri Garr and some aliens. Another thing that does not quite click unfortunately is our leads. Craig Sheffer and Anne Bobby seem to lack a certain chemistry, More damning they clearly were chosen based on their resemblance to the leads of Dirty Dancing which graced screens three years earlier, Anne Bobby, in particular, seems to be channeling her inner (and outer), Jennifer Grey. Somebody really needed to put that baby in the corner. Lastly, the film's direction and tone seem all over the map, particularly in the third act. You have a sheriff and various yahoos who are seeming out of a cartoon, you have the monsters reenacting a particularly sad version of 1932's Freaks, you have David Cronenberg who clearly is in a better movie somewhere, and you have direction that never makes it clear who is where related to everyone else and how many of whom there even are. Overall Nightbreed is more entertaining than I made it sound above. It reminds me of all things the recent Monster Trucks in terms of theme and tone. If Monster Trucks had Michael Myers killing entire families in the first half.

tstudstrup Once upon a time it was Halloween and some moron gave Clive Barker way too much money to make a movie adaptation of one of his terrible books.Then they cut 18 minutes out of the movie and the retarded teenage-boys/fans of this bag of malarkey, cried their little eyes out in frustration. Don't cry kids: I've only seen the directors cut and it still makes about as much sense as an episode of Family Guy. The story which makes no sense what so ever, I won't even get into because it gives me a headache just trying to understand any of it. The lead looks like a cartoon and can't act. He has an ugly girlfriend who loves him so much that she kills herself to be with him and the other freaks in some world beneath a cemetery where monsters hide from humans. Yes it's that ridiculous.The makeup is terrible and the special effects are horrible. Oh and David Cronenberg who has directed The Fly and a History of violence is the main villain and the only good actor who plays an interesting character. Just don't watch this!! I have no idea why this is considered a classic!!

jessegehrig Clive Barker, did you know you wrote the story this movie is based on? How did you f*ck that up? It's your story, you own it you wrote it-surely surely SURELY when you wrote it you did not envision the film adaptation to be this movie. You did the same thing to your masterpiece The Last Illusion, you turned it into that mediocrity Lord Of Illusions. Clive, baby, what is going on? Do you hate movies, is that it? Do you hate your work? David Cronenberg was profoundly miscast, once again, Mr. Barker, did you even read your story? David f*cking Cronenberg is how you saw the character, Decker? Are you f*cking sure? Dude, Clive Barker, you are one of the all time greatest horror authors ever, f*cking class it up next time.

poe426 Back before television became a breeding ground for fantasy knockoffs, NIGHTBREED seemed unique enough to warrant mention; nowadays, of course, it's almost quaint with its cast of motley monsters struggling to survive alongside The Human Race. The opening chase through the field (not unlike a similar scene in the anime classic VAMPIRE HUNTER D) is an attention-grabber right from the start, and many of the Monsters we encounter throughout the movie are truly memorable (my favorite being the wide-eyed child found outside the Underground entrance). Anyone who's seen shows like SUPERNATURAL or GRIMM will find themselves in familiar territory, but it was Clive Barker who got there first and NIGHTBREED's STILL a nifty little Monster movie.