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Nightbreed

Name: Nightbreed
Genre: Horror, Fantasy
Released: 1990-02-16
Duration: 121 min
Rating: 6.385

★ 6,4 /10 (549 Votes)

1990 EN 121 min

Overview

A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer is looking for a patsy.

Stream

Release date

16/02/1990

Votes

549

Popularity

5.2

A new reason to fear the night.

Genres

Horror Fantasy

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

121 min

Budget

$11,000,000

Revenue

$8,862,354

Craig Sheffer

Aaron Boone

Anne Bobby

Lori Desinger

David Cronenberg

Dr. Philip K. Decker

Charles Haid

Captain Eigerman

Hugh Quarshie

Detective Joyce

Hugh Ross

Narcisse

Doug Bradley

Dirk Lylesberg

Catherine Chevalier

Rachel

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Malcolm Smith

Ashberry

Bob Sessions

Pettine

Oliver Parker

Peloquin

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Debora Weston

Sheryl Ann

Nicholas Vince

Kinski

Simon Bamford

Ohnaka

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Christine McCorkindale

Shuna Sassi

John Agar

Gas Station Attendant / Victim

Jack Bennett

(voice)

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Alexis De La Rocha

(voice)

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Kim Robertson

Babette

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Nina Robertson

Babette

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Tony Bluto

Leroy Gomm

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Vincent Keene

Devil Lude

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Bernard Henry

Baphomet

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Richard Van Spall

Drummer

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David Young

Otis and Clay

Valda Aviks

Mellissa Rickman

Mac McDonald

Lou Rickman

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Richard Bowman

Rickman Boy

McNally Sagal

Motel Receptionist

Daniel Kash

Labowitz

Bradley Lavelle

Cormack

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Stephen Hoye

Gibbs

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Tom Hunsinger

Tommy

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George Roth

Kane

Peter Marinker

Pathologist

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Lindsay Holiday

Morgue Assistant

Kenneth Nelson

Emergency Doctor

Carolyn Jones

Emergency Nurse

Ted Maynard

Bartender

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Mitch Webb

Jail Cell Doctor

Eric Loren

Ambush Cop

Peter Atkins

Man in Club

Original Soundtrack

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The movie fails to provide vital information about its world, either early enough or altogether. Without an understanding of what's happening on the screen, the initial story developments fail to make an emotional connection. What the viewer is left with is an appreciation for the darkly fantastical world and the technical prowess it would have required by the film crew to create. (Some of us will also appreciate the protagonist's beauty.)

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What a difficult thing it is to review this movie. First the movie most people have seen is not the movie Clive Barker created, as the studio did the final cut without Barker's approval or even contacting him at all. So the studio (and the infamous test audience, people with no intelligence and movie or art knowledge) released what they thought ot be a summer monster movie ... The Director's cut released way later is closer to what Barker wanted, but with time, some tapes had disappeared, and Barker had moved on, so what the prognal movie should have been is a mystery. So we have Boone, a gu…

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This review is of the Director's Cut which has 45 minutes of changed footage (a lot added and some removed/replaced)... The Director's cut is basically a different movie, that tells a different and much more complete story. Way more footage of the monsters in Midian... backstory on the main monsters... an ending that makes total sense. The movie that Clive Barker wanted to release, before the studio tried to turn it into a slasher flick. The story in the Director's Cut is much closer to the story in the book [Cabal]. The movie as it should have been in the theatrical release. Well worth a w…

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