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Jan 14, 2021 · Why Barker Never Made His Planned Nightbreed Trilogy The story of Nightbreed 's production troubles is a classic tale of a fraught relationship between filmmaker and producer. On paper, it may seem as if Barker had significant creative control over the project as both director and screenwriter.
[Writer-director Clive] Barker, himself a gay man, makes his Nightbreed spectacularly queer, chiefly through its visual design and dishy repartee: the monsters sport leather, tattoos, body-piercings, shaved heads and/or pony-tails, Doc Marten boots, vests upon bare chests, and van dykes ("Satan beards" or "queer beards"), a look that was concurrently being made fashionable by Queer ...
- $11 million
- Danny Elfman
- February 16, 1990
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How Fox Bungled Nightbreed per Clive Barker. By Alan Jones, Cinefantastique, Vol 21, No 1, July 1990. "The Knights Templar brought back from the Holy Land a god called Baphomet and they were burned at the stake for worship of him. The Rosicrucians also had Baphomet in their system, as did the Masons.
Aaron Boone (Craig Sheffer) dreams of Midian, a place where creatures of the night live in hiding from the dangers of man. He’s so troubled that his worried girlfriend, Lori (Anne Bobby), urges ...
Oct 7, 2019 · In fact, Nightbreed’s fans remained so loyal that after almost 25 years, we finally got a director’s cut of the film, one much closer to Clive Barker’s vision than we ever imagined possible.
The success of the Hellraiser films (a third is in the works) led to a lucrative three-film deal for Barker, the first of which was Nightbreed, which he adapted from his novella "Cabal" and directed. Simultaneous with that film's release came his novel The Great and Secret Show, another epic fantasy, this one the first installment of a trilogy ...
May 6, 2015 · From 1987 to 1992 my alt-family of New York arts eccentrics found such a film, an unexpected guide to living weird in Clive Barker ’s valentine to monster family values, “Nightbreed” (1990), which has recently been released in a sparkly new, reassembled Blu-Ray edition.
