History Film / Nightbreed

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: All of the Nighbreed are vampiric to some extent. They crave blood and flesh and the sunlight hurts them. But the variety of their appearances and individual traits are vast. Aaron Boone is the closest to "your average vampire" in his Nightbreed form. He's more or less a [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy-style]] vampire with an increased resistance to sunlight.

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* SceneryPorn: Especially the abandoned graveyard, which is gorgeously mysterious. Then it's more like Scenery Porn for {{Nightmare Fetishist}}s, with amazingly detailed, imaginative and yet extremely scary and unpleasant Midian.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the original novel, Eigerman survives the climax and decides to aid Ashberry in hunting down the Nightbreed. In the film, he dies and his role at the end is taken by Dr. Decker whom Ashberry resurrects]].

* IntercontinuityCrossover: The comics, with ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}''.

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: All of the Nighbreed are vampiric to some extent. They crave blood and flesh and the sunlight hurts them. But the variety of their appearances and individual traits is vast. Hell, there is even an crescent moon-faced vampire. Actually, Aaron Boone is the closest to "your average vampire" in his Nightbreed form.

* TearOffYourFace: One character starts to cut his own face off as part of his passage into Midian. Later inverted, in that [[spoiler: as a Nighbreed he peels off all of his skin ''but'' his face]].

* SerialKiller: Dr. Decker is a [[MisanthropeSupreme misanthropic]] serial killer who murders entire families and anyone else he comes across to 'cleanse' the world.

* MotiveRant: During Dr. Decker's torture and questioning of an old shopkeeper, he goes on a whiny rant about his serial-killing activities, explaining that he just [[MisanthropeSupreme hates humans so thoroughly]] that he hacks up whole families to stop humans from creating offspring. This scene was apparently added after initial shooting to explain Decker's motives for being so evil more thoroughly, which wasn't all that clear in the original cut.

* FirstEpisodeResurrection

* GorgeousGorgon

* GodzillaThreshold: In the end with the Berserkers.

* SealedBadassInACan: Early in Boon's introduction to the Breed, he finds that the hall to Baphomet's chamber is lined on either side by locked cells containing Berserkers: Breed who are mindless and deformed (even for monsters), but who's strength is unparalleled. During the climax of the movie, Mideon is falling apart, fires are raging through the cemetery, and the Breed are being slaughtered by gun-toting humans. Lylsburg uses his last moments alive to unlock ALL the doors and drive away the invading humans.

* SequelHook: The masked murderer is revived as a Nightbreed, and Boone and the survivors have to find a new home.

* FourEyesZeroSoul: Decker. He's more of a monster than every being in Midian combined.

* ShoutOut: Dr. Philip K. Decker is named after the science fiction author Creator/PhilipKDecker.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The producers forced Barker to cut over an hour of footage from the film.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: All of the Nighbreed are vampiric to some extent. They crave blood and flesh and the sunlight hurts them. But the variety of their appearances and individual traits is vast. Hell, there is even an crescent moon-faced vampire. Actually, Aaron Boone is the closest to "your average vampire", in his Nightbreed form.

* SerialKiller: [[spoiler:Dr. Decker.]]

-->'''Boone:''' Then it's true.
-->'''Peloquin:''' [[AllMythsAreTrue Everything is true.]] God's an astronaut. Oz is over the rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live.

'''This film contains examples of:'''

* {{Adaptation Expansion}}: The novel is short and rather laconic, not too heavy on descriptions and such. The movie expands not only the plots, but also gives us lot of details about the world and the creatures that dwell in Midian.

* FanService: When Rachel takes her clothes off to mesmerize a cop.
* FantasticNatureReserve: Midian.

* GameFace

* {{Our Vampires Are Different}}-- All of the Nighbreed are vampiric to some extent. They crave blood and flesh and the sunlight hurts them. But the variety of their appearances and individual traits is vast. Hell, there is even an crescent moon-faced vampire. Actually, Aaron Boone is the closest to "your average vampire", in his Nightbreed form.
* {{Scenery Porn}}: Especially the abandoned graveyard, which is gorgeously mysterious. Then it's more like {{Scenery Porn}} for {{Nightmare Fetishist}}, with amazingly detailed, imaginative and yet extremely scary and unpleasant Midian.

* TearOffYourFace: One character starts to cut his own face off as part of his passage into Midian.
** Later inverted, in that [[spoiler: as a Nighbreed he peels off all of his skin ''but'' his face]].

* WakingUpAtTheMorgue

* DavidCronenberg: Notably, he didn't direct.

A 1990 movie based on the novel ''Cabal'' by {{Horror}} writer CliveBarker.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The producers forced Barker to cut over an hour footage from the film.

* DarkIsNotEvil: The Midians... though definetly ''not'' harmless.

* IntercontinuityCrossover: The comics, with ''{{Hellraiser}}''.

* HoYay: Peloquin's... hunger for Boone carries a metric ton of DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything.

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: One of the studio execs warned Clive Barker that he was "unintentionally" making the monsters sympathetic. Barker privately dented a wall.