Nightbreed (18)". British Board of Film Classification. May 21, 1990 . Retrieved February 10, 2015. For the film, Barker used three soundstages at Pinewood Studios shooting some scenes on location at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK over several nights and in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. [16] Bob Keen and his crew had two months to play around with ideas before doing any modeling work. They used computer-controlled animatronics but only where necessary. [23] Towards the end of principal photography, Barker brought Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie in to paint mattes for the Necropolis sequences and design the history of the Breed in a symbolic way on an enormous mural across a 60-foot space on the set at Pinewood to be used in the opening credits. [24] At this point, we and Clive and Mark need to again thank everyone who has been moved to support Nightbreed so eloquently. That passion has not been wasted and has motivated a studio to spend time and effort looking to rescue the lost work of filmmakers who shared a heavenly vision of monsters... We've not given up all hope... UPDATE - 6 February 2010

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Crest Westwood Theater, Los Angeles - 27 October 2014, with Q&A - Clive Barker. *NB date and venue change* Givens, Ron (February 23, 1990). "The Elfman Cometh". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved March 21, 2012. Audio commentary on the director’s cut by writer/director Clive Barker and restoration producer Mark Alan Miller The film’s potential magic, suffocated as it may be, was also on display in the cast Barker put together, which included Hugh Quarshie, Hugh Ross as Boone’s confidant Narcissus, the legendary Pinhead himself, Doug Bradley, as the leader of Midian, Lylseburg, Oliver Parker as the vampiric alpha male Peloquin, and Christine McCorkindale as the seductive porcupine woman, Shuna Sassi. In a 2012 interview, actress Ann Bobby, who played Boone’s girlfriend Lori Winston, revealed why the cast worked so well together. “I think Nightbreedwas a very sort of sterling example of what happens when a gifted director puts together his sort of cast that he knows will work well together that speak the same language. When I say language I almost mean a shorthand. There was a lot of freedom on that set in many ways.”The Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror Films". www.saturnawards.org. Archived from the original on June 26, 2012 . Retrieved October 20, 2015. a b "Q&A session with Clive Barker & Peter Atkins". 5th Annual LA Times Festival of Books April 29th, 2000. Clivebarker.com . Retrieved March 22, 2012. I have no details as yet of the timing of this release, or of the status of extras on the DVD. The company that will be releasing Nightbreed is Scream Factory.

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SpectreFest will be screening the Director's Cut of Nightbreed in Los Angeles in October with a Q&A planned with Clive. The only thing standing between us and the director's cut of Nightbreed is - good news - its already loyal audience...By The Horror Honeys, Moviepilot, 4 September 2014 (note: full text online at http://moviepilot.com) From here the concept of Occupy Midian, the multi-pronged campaign named by Anne Bobby in an interview with the Clive Barker Podcast, was begun by Ryan Danhauser, Jose Leitao, Roger Boyes and Russell Cherrington. It was a combination of screenings around the world by Russell, a petition assembled by Jose, social-media push by the members of the Clive Barker Podcast to keep the momentum going until Morgan Creek saw that it was a viable product. At the time of its release, the film was a commercial and critical failure. In several interviews, Barker protested that the film company tried to sell it as a standard slasher film, [3] and that the powers-that-be had no real working knowledge of Nightbreed 's story. [4] Since its initial theatrical release, Nightbreed has become a cult film. [5] [6] New "Director's Cut" presentation of the film which contains over 40 minutes of new and altered footage Morgan Creek: "So I have a bit of sad news to relay. After MUCH digging, hunting and trying our best to unearth where (if at all) the missing Nightbreed footage might be, we've come up empty handed. Therefore, that VHS that was screened at the convention is the ONLY footage that exists of a director's cut."

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A huge, huge thank you to each and every one of you from Clive and ourselves: your support has been instrumental in moving Morgan Creek from an initial "there's no interest" position on releasing an extended DVD or Bluray to one where they have actually been into the vaults to pull out the footage... However, we're less happy to have to tell you that, after discussing the current home entertainment market in "the horror genre" with Warner Bros., Morgan Creek have decided to take "a pause" before deciding to move forward with the DVD release we're all calling for.

UPDATE - July 2017

We have big (and extensive) news to report today regarding a film that we announced almost over a year ago in July. In collaboration with Morgan Creek Productions and Clive Barker's Seraphim, Inc., the long-awaited NIGHTBREED: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT is scheduled for a release of October 28th and will be available in two retail versions: A 5,000 Unit Limited-Edition 3-Disc Blu-ray set and a Special Edition DVD & Blu-ray Combo. Multiple image galleries, including early sketches, set photos, poster and pre-production art, stills from the UK launch party at Tower Records, and more It ain't cheap to restore and release a movie. Let's show the powers-that-be that it's worth their while, shall we?"

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Barker always loved monsters and felt that "there's a corner of all of us that envies their powers and would love to live forever, or to fly, or to change shape at will. So, when I came to make a movie about monsters, I wanted to create a world we'd feel strangely at home in". [15] He was interested in creating a "horror mythology from the ground up" and developing characters that would live on in sequels. [16] As he finished writing the novella Cabal, he realized that it would make a good film that he would direct himself. [17] He originally envisioned a trilogy of films. [18] [19] Mark Frost wrote the initial draft of the screenplay for Barker. [20] Yes, there's (lots) more violence as the Sons of the Free invade Midian, yes there's some deleted stop motion footage, yes, Narcisse gets decapitated, yes Lori stabs herself on a hilltop and Boone bites her... Yes, yes, yes! A second VHS copy of the film has come to light - this time a 159 minute cut - another 14 minutes! Lori's performance of Johnny Get Angry is amongst the "new" footage, as is the "on the next wind..." closing scene with the breed in the barn. Fingers crossed... this feels like we might just be on a bit of a roll here... • Clive Barker Plotting Nightbreed For TV. Hellraiser headed for small screen too - by Owen Williams 04 April 2012, Empire Online

During an interview in 2022 on The Ghost of Hollywood, cinematographer Robin Vidgeon, mentioned that he disliked working with David Cronenberg, stating Cronenberg complained to Clive that he was being usurped. [25] Monster-Mania Con, Cherry Hill - 18 and 19 August 2012, with Mark Miller, Russell Cherrington and others... Over time, Barker expressed disappointment with the final cut approved by the studio and always longed for the recovery of the reels so the film might be re-edited. In 2014, original film elements for the cut material were re-obtained and were edited into a director's cut, released through Scream Factory. [7] Plot [ edit ]