Nightbreed

1990

Action / Crime / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Thriller

40
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 60% · 34 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 60% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 28681 28.7K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Clive Barker Photo
Clive Barker

Top cast

John Agar Photo
John Agar as Decker's Victim
Nicholas Vince Photo
Nicholas Vince as Kinski
Doug Bradley Photo
Doug Bradley as Dirk Lylesberg
McNally Sagal Photo
McNally Sagal as Motel Receptionist
1080p.BluRay 2160p.BluRay
1.85 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 31
4.59 GB
3840*2160
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mrosesteed 6 / 10

Excessive and bizarre

Various cuts of Nightbreed have surfaced since its original theatrical release, one as many as 155 minutes long. I watched the 120 minute directors cut released by Shout! Factory in 2014. Based on Clive Barker's 1988 novella, Cabal, Nightbreed is an elaborate and indulgent fantasy-horror with heavy handed themes of love, intolerance, incitement, abuse of power, manipulation, and monstrosity. Although the film's richly colorful cinematography, elaborate makeup, and conceptual elements are strong, its convoluted storyline, mediocre acting, and over the top writing and aesthetic transform what could have been a compelling fairy-tale-esque parable into an exercise in gory, campy excess.
Reviewed by toxicpilgrim 5 / 10

I wish I liked it.

This feels like a movie I should be very much into. I love sympathetic monsters and creatures, and strange unique fantasy lore, but this movie just falls flat for me. I've seen it twice now. I gave It a second chance with the Director's Cut, but I came away feeling the same.I did really enjoy seeing David Cronenberg acting, and I imagine everyone on set had fun, but there's really nothing to come back to in this movie. It feels like they had written a premise, and a first act, and then just winged it for the rest of the film.There's a decent mystery being built up in that first act, and I'm intrigued, hoping to venture further into this strange culture of Midian, but it seems that there is no actual depth to it. They're just monsters.They sit around in dusty underground lairs waiting for 'normals' to come around and shake things up, and when they do they go "boogie boogie boo" and dance in their faces.
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