Back in 1990, a little horror film called ‘Nightbreed’ slipped under the radar of most, but still managed to become a cult favorite of genre fans. Directed by horror master and author Clive Barker, the film isn’t “perfect” but it’s still a great movie with tons of reasons to love it, including a cameo role by director David Cronenberg.
If you follow Clive, online or otherwise, you’ll realize there are always lots of questions thrown his way… about his books, about his movies and about the status of both, new and old. One of the most commonly asked questions regards this 1990 movie and whether we’ll ever see the DVD get re-released, preferably as a Director’s Cut (it’s known that much material was cut) and, maybe even Blu-Ray?
As it turns out, Fox currently still owns the rights to this film and thanks to a loyal fan named Mark Millar with an excess of free time, two key pieces of information have been revealed: the additional cut footage (long thought to have been lost) does still exist and is merely buried in some warehouse awaiting it’s resurrection and that any resurrection of ‘Nightbreed’ in any form is being blocked simply by some studio executive’s misguided notion that there isn’t a big enough fan base to warrant spending the money on a Director’s Cut, let alone an upgrade to Blu-Ray.
Here’s where the film stands currently: there’s only a single, bare-bones paper-case Region 1 DVD release that’s sorely outdated, there’s NO Region 2 DVD, and with 25 minutes of unused footage along with a very real possibility for a commentary and lots of bonus material, a Director’s Cut DVD/Blu-Ray release is certainly worth the fight. Below is the information from CliveBarker.info regarding the grass roots push for this to happen…
If you’re interested in showing the size of audience or demand for an extended version of Nightbreed, please either e-mail us by clicking on this link or send us a Tweet to @philandsarah (find us at our Twitter page here).
Just your name or screen name is fine but please feel free to add your country of residence and / or a sentence or two on why this would be a great idea. We’ll collate responses at the bottom of this page and build a picture of support for Nightbreed here!
[source: CliveBarker.info]
