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  Review by sarah squirm ★★★★ 3

  beetlejuice for horny grown ups and daddy cronenberg is the star ?!!??! 🤤🤤
  freaks rule! cops and normies suck 🤌

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  Review by Ian West ★★★★½ 13

  Clive Barker’s world of gods and monsters. 

  I’ll come right out and say it, I love this movie. It’s a story I’ve always been able to connect with over the years, no matter what my age is or whatever is going on in my life. 

  Nightbreed was always in steady rotation during my vhs days, appealing to younger me with not only horror, fantasy, and cool monsters, but with life messages along the way about acceptance and a sense of belonging, plus I read Cabal in my teens and that was definitely a big eye opener for my imagination as well . Add up all of those elements plus some incredible monster designs/effects and a sadistic David Cronenberg stealing whatever…

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  Review by Dyrnott ★★★½ 2

  This is a cult classic directed by Clive Barker! It had been decades since I have last seen it! I had even forgotten the story line! It was a very enjoyable fun watch! If you haven’t seen it give it a try or rewatch if you have!

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  Review by nathaxnne [hiatus: blast injury] ★★★★★ 2

  2 be able 2 fly 2 be smoke or a wolf
  2 know the night & live in it 43vr
  thats not so bad u call us monsters
  but when u dream u dream of flying
  & changing & living without death
  u envy us & what u envy u destroy

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  Review by Cinemonster ★★★★ 1

  HooptoberX 5/34

  Directors cut

  'I love a coward '

  A flawed but interesting theatrical release is brought to the precipice of a great film with Clive Barkers cut.

  Clive's wonderful approach to mainstream cinema is bolstered by one of editor Mark Goldblatts best pieces of work, a top 5 Danny Elfman score and tremendous character design. Some problematic cinematography clips it's wings, a bit.

  I wish that we had more than 3 feature films from Barker. His imagination, design and execution were all one-of-a-kind, as were the films that he was able to give to us.

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  Review by F3lixL3g1ons ★★★★★ 12

  Still feels fresh and cool every time I go back to it… and that takes a lot of doing these days.

  On the outside, Nightbreed is totally '80s: from the fantastic makeup to Danny Elfman's Hellraiser-ish soundtrack; almost like a last solemn farewell to the golden age of Horror. But on the inside, Nightbreed is full-on progressive '90s stuff: An ultra-sharp political allegory about the persecution of outcasts. Ethnic cleansing wrapped up in mythical fantasy.

  The Cabal Cut is very much the real deal. The version that started it all. Less "Muppets of Horror", more "Freak Holocaust". More emotionally resonant, focused and cohesive. Simplicity over complication!

  Respect to Clive Barker for not giving up on his true version. And mad…

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★

  on the one hand, this has some truly clunky and childish 80s fantasy storytelling that becomes hard to make excuses for at this length (the 2-hour director's cut), and barker for all his impressive depths of gruesome imagination is not particularly deft at the nuts-and-bolts of drama or action filmmaking. it's just a blatant mess, arguably a glorious and ambitious one but a mess nonetheless. on the other hand, you kind of have to respect that a queer horror novelist was given an absurd amount of money to make what he called his "horror star wars", and it climaxes on nearly 30 minutes of intricately designed “unnatural” but peaceful monsters popping out of their underground cemetery home (that they've been…

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  Review by COBRARocky ★★★ 2

  Practically bursting at the seams with visual imagination and ideas but you can almost see the studio holding Barker back at every point and I just wish we could see what his big gay brain truly could have made if he had been allowed to make the film he wanted. Cronenberg is having way too much fun in this.

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  Review by jasmin 🌙 ★★★★ 2

  Hooptober X: Ten-Tastic Terror 👻

  Film 4/31
  1 film based on a Clive Barker story

  "Men or money? Whenever I cry, it's usually men or money."

  Well, hi there!
  Wanna have some fun? Let's go to Midian! Legend says that monsters are hiding there from humanity.

  Oh, this one is intriguing. Directed by Clive Barker, David Cronenberg is starring and the poster promises some cool monsters.
  I watched this on Tubi US which seemed to only have the director's cut so I'll be writing about that (cut).
  The lead, Boone, is played by Craig Sheffer and I really don't know why, but from certain angles he really reminded me of David Boreanaz. Do with that what you will.

  Anyways, Nightbreed…

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  Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★★ 10

  It's absolutely baffling to me why I rated this a mere 2,5 stars on my first watch, because after this afternoon's viewing I recognize Clive Barker's (Hellraiser) Nightbreed for what it really is: pure horror/fantasy extravaganza.

  I am so glad Michelle chose this movie for today's multi-continent watch party.

  We watched the Director's Cut and it was brilliant.

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  Review by CatinmyBrain ★★★★ 2

  "You must find me. Heal me. Save me from my enemies."

  Clive Barker's Cabal is a book that would regularly disappear from my library and find a new forever home with my friends and acquaintances. This happens to great books and movies. You lend them out, they get adopted and you never see them again. I think sometimes the books and movies realise that other people need them more than you.

  This happens a lot to Clive Barker's works. They come into my life and disappear. Imajica. Great and Secret Show. Everville. Thief of Always. Weaveworld. Hellraiser. Lord of Illusions. I've bought all of them in multiple. But I don't think I really owned any of these stories. I'm like…

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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★½ 4

  #19 of 31 - HOOPTOBER 5.0 : We Don’t Need A Stretcher In There We Need A Mop

  Clive Barker has a habit of dropping his audience straight into the meat grinder! Forget the concept of acclimation.. forget asking audiences to suspend disbelief! He and his films are far beyond that! You enter his world at your own risk! For me Barker's films are a boom or bust proposition!

  Hellraiser for example rocked my world! Original, distinctive, as mind bending as it was unparalleled in the history of horror! Truly the stuff of nightmares, grotesque creatures that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt there is a fate far worse than death!

  Whereas Nightbreed is a lightweight, humans and monsters alike clichéd caricatures at best! At worst we've seen it all before and unfortunately for Mr. Barker done better! Extremely disappointed that the monstrous creatures that drew us to the film in the first place were so severely underused!