History Film / Nightbreed

The film production saw quite a bit of ExecutiveMeddling, most prominently resulting in a FocusGroupEnding, which deviated quite a bit from the original novel's ending. Clive Barker was vocally unhappy about the studio interference, and for years afterwards, he longed for the recovery of the reels so the film might be re-edited. Russell Cherrington, a film scholar at the University of Derby, was eventually able to get his hands on a couple of different workprint cuts of the film through various sources, recompiling them in 2012 into a 159-minute cut (as opposed to the studio approved version's 102 minutes) that was much closer to Clive Barker's original vision, called ''The Cabal Cut''. Creator/ShoutFactory, having obtained the license to the film in 2013, was eventually able to recover most of the original film reels, allowing Clive Barker himself to put a official ''DirectorsCut'' version (clocking in at 122 minutes), which was released in 2014.

The film production saw quite a bit of ExecutiveMeddling, most prominently resulting in a FocusGroupEnding, which deviated quite a bit from the original novel's ending. Clive Barker was vocally unhappy about the studio interference, and for years afterwards, he longed for the recovery of the reels so the film might be re-edited. Russell Cherrington, a film scholar at the University of Derby, was eventually able to get his hands on a couple of different workprint cuts of the film through various sources, recompiling them in 2012 into a 159-minute cut (as opposed to the studio approved version's 102 minutes) that was much closer to Clive Barker's original vision, called ''The Cabal Cut''. Creator/ShoutFactory, having bought the licence to the film, was eventually able to recover most of the original film reels, allowing Clive Barker himself to put together an official ''DirectorsCut'' version (clocking in at 122 minutes), which was released in 2014.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Doctor Decker is introduced when he murders a family of three. While the parents' deaths is shown in graphic detail, it obviously cuts away when he advances on their young son.

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

* DeadpanSnarker: Decker on occasion, with heavy emphasis on the "deadpan".

* BodyHorror: Some of the 'Breed are look quite bizarre.

-->'''Rachel:''' You call us monsters, but when you dream, it's of flying and changing, and living without death. You envy us. And what you envy...

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

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: Scream Factory is set to release a 'limited edition' of the Director's Cut with an extra disc at eighty dollars.

With a music score by DannyElfman very reminiscent of ''Film/{{Batman}}'', ''Nightbreed'' is a gorgeous, disgusting movie with a captivating mythical mood. The titular Nightbreed aren't quite monsters, and the humans aren't exactly saints either.

* SealedBadassInACan: Early in Boone'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, Midian is falling apart, fires are raging through the cemetery, and the Breed are being slaughtered by gun-toting humans. Lylesburg uses his last moments alive [[GodzillaThreshold to unlock ALL the doors]] and drive away the invading humans.

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* GhostShipping: The main character Boone/Cabal returns from the dead after being shot repeatedly by the police and later continues his romance with his girlfriend.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Decker is resurrected in the theatrical cut of the film by Ashberry. However in Cabal, the Epic Comics adaptation, and the Director's Cut, he stays dead.]]

* DecapitationPresentation: The homocidal Dr. Decker seems to be fond of this. He cuts off a motel clerk's head and places it on the front desk for his wife to find before killing her too. [[spoiler: Later, he decapitates Narcisse and puts the head on a stick before showing it to Boone.]]

* GameFace: Lori and her boyfriend Eric Boone, now a newly-turned member of the Nightbreed, have escaped Midian and are on the run from the police. When the cops marshal an entire force to arrest him he turns around to show Lori his true face.

* 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 [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy-style]] vampire with an increased resistance to sunlight.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:Villainous variation. The hateful serial killer Dr. Decker, who despises everything that isn't him and regarded the Nightbreed as vermin that he wanted to exterminate, becomes a Nightbreed himself in the SequelHook at the end when the priest revives him. Now he's an undead, superpowered serial killer more dangerous than ever.]]

* 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]].
* DecapitationPresentation: The homocidal Dr. Decker seems to be fond of this. He cuts off a motel clerk's head and places it on the front desk for his wife to find before killing her too. Later, he decapitates one of the Nightbreed and puts the head on a stick before showing it to his friends.

* SerialKiller: Dr. Decker is a [[MisanthropeSupreme misanthropic]] serial killer who murders entire families and anyone else he comes across to 'cleanse' the world. [[spoiler:He becomes an undead one at the end.]]

* SmiteMeOhMightySmiter: Shown with an aftermath in the film -- A badly fallen priest is dragged along for the ride when the rednecks go after the Nightbreed, and when he manages to splash the Shattered God's transformative baptism over himself, he winds up in the ruins of the Breed's old home, reviving Cabal's nemesis and vowing revenge: "Their God burned me. I want to burn him back!"

* 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.]]

* WeakenedByTheLight: Some Nightbreed burn in sunlight.