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16 February 1990 (USA) moreTagline:
Lori thought she knew everything about her boyfriend... Lori was wrong! morePlot:
A community of mutant outcasts of varying types and abilities attempts to escape the attentions of a... more | add synopsisAwards:
3 wins & 4 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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See 'Seduth' Creators Barker, Monfette in Person this Thursday (From Cinematical. 28 October 2009, 7:48 AM, PDT)
Help Get The Uncut Nightbreed Released on DVD
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Not a horror movie: A monster movie, with affection. more (96 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Craig Sheffer | ... | Aaron Boone / Cabal | |
| 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 | |
| Malcolm Smith | ... | Ashberry | |
| Bob Sessions | ... | Pettine | |
| Oliver Parker | ... | Peloquin | |
| Debora Weston | ... | Sheryl Ann | |
| Nicholas Vince | ... | Kinski | |
| Simon Bamford | ... | Ohnaka | |
| Kim Robertson | ... | Babette |
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102 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1992) | Finland:K-18 (uncut) (2007) | Netherlands:16 | Australia:M | France:-12 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:RFun Stuff
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20th Century Fox drastically cut this film at the last minute prior to its theatrical release, omitting most of the more graphic violence and completely deleting rock singer Suzi Quatro's role from the final print. Moreover, the movie was misleadingly advertised as just another standard slasher feature. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: When the camera slowly pulls away, over Boone's dead body in the field in front of Midian, you can see him blink after several seconds. moreQuotes:
Leroy Gomm: You heard what he saidDevil Lude: What chance have we got... they're armed
Leroy Gomm: So am I
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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!