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Overview

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Director:
Clive Barker
Writers (WGA):
Clive Barker (novel)
Clive Barker (screenplay)
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Release Date:
16 February 1990 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Fantasy | Horror more
Tagline:
Lori thought she knew everything about her boyfriend... Lori was wrong! more
Plot:
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Awards:
3 wins & 4 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(77 articles)
Nightbreed Extended Cut Update...
 (From Fangoria. 20 June 2009, 8:22 PM, PDT)

Clive Barker’s Book of Blood DVD Info
 (From HorrorYearbook. 12 June 2009, 9:48 AM, PDT)

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Not a horror movie: A monster movie, with affection. more

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Clive Barker's Nightbreed (UK) (complete title) (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
102 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Some of the Nightbreed-inspired merchandise included a 25-issue Nightbreed comic book series, a Nightbreed game for the home computer, and books such as "The Nightbreed Chronicles". more
Goofs:
Factual errors: When the Pathologist is removing the rifle bullets from Aaron Boone's corpse in the morgue, they are clearly brand new and have not been fired into anything. The bullets would be "mushroomed" if they had hit a person. more
Quotes:
Boone: Look we can make it out... but we need fighters
Lylesberg: We're not warriors
Boone: What about the beserkers?
Lylesberg: Madness, they're uncontrollable
Boone: Better yet... let them out. We are the tribes of the moon... you said so
Lylesberg: [Reminiscing] The tribes of the moon
[pauses then reluctantly]
Lylesberg: I'll release them
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Clive Barker: Raising Hell (2004) (V) more

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18 out of 19 people found the following comment useful:-
Not a horror movie: A monster movie, with affection., 15 July 2000
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Author: Robert (erichvm) from United States

What's fun about Barker's Nightbreed is that it's the story of a human on a rampage, a deadly threat to monsters everywhere. In this one, the monsters (the night breed of the title) are the "good" guys. It shares its sense of celebrating the different, the twisted, and the dark with the first Addams Family movie, and much of Tim Burton's work. It also has the goriness that one expects from a piece by Barker.

Especially fun is the performance by Cronenberg as the truly evil human doctor who is bent on destroying the Nightbreed. As happens in most classic monster movies, the villagers surround the monsters' castle with torches and pitchforks. Only this time, the modern setting replaces the castle with an old mausoleum and the rustic "weapons" with guns and bombs. And this time the sympathy you felt when you saw Frankenstein's monster burned in the windmill is the very center of the movie.

This isn't a masterpiece, and even Barker has done more interesting, and certainly more chilling, work. But it's pure fun, it looks great, and remains light without mocking itself. Worth a look!

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