Adapted and directed by horror / fantasy author Clive Barker from his novel ‘Cabal’, this underrated gem is great fun. Incorporating pre-CGI monsters, cool make-up effects and even a whacky psychiatrist played by director David Cronenberg (who directed everything from ‘Naked Lunch’; ‘History of Violence’; ‘Rabid’; ‘Videodrome’; ‘Eastern Promises’ and ‘The Fly.’) It's not frightening (nothing like Barker's ‘Hellraiser’) but it is wonderous to behold – sort of like a pre-CGI ‘Hellboy.’ If you're a fan of fantasy / horrors with a heart, like ‘Hellboy’, then this dark adult fairy tale is a delight. True ‘cult’ movie making at its best. Adz
Nightbreed

Mature 15+
Suitable for mature persons 15 years and over.

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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.
- DVD
- Region 4
- Standard Edition
- Horror
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