
A community of mutant outcasts of varying types and abilities attempts to escape the attention of a psychotic serial killer and redneck vigilantes with the help of a brooding young man who discovers them. Based on the novel "Cabal" by Clive Barker.... (Full plot summary below)
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A community of mutant outcasts of varying types and abilities attempts to escape the attention of a psychotic serial killer and redneck vigilantes with the help of a brooding young man who discovers them. Based on the novel "Cabal" by Clive Barker.
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| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeDisappointing make-up showcase disguised as a thriller. |
| IGNDevin FaraciWhile Cronenberg works, the two other main humans - Boone and his girlfriend, are flat and boring, mostly due to uninspired performances. Still, that's like blasting Star Wars for Mark Hamill's acting. While this isn't as great as Star Wars, it's in the same vein, and if Nightbreed had made some loot, I think we would have gotten some very cool sequels with a fantastic mythology. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonThe Director's Cut is vastly superior to the theatrical version, expanding on the secretive realm of Midian and the monsters who reside in this underground lair. |
| Projected FiguresAnton BitelCABAL CUT: We get a little more Decker, and quite a bit more redneck rampaging, but there is also inevitably a whole lot more Boone. Longer does not equal better, esp. in horror, and all this extra stuffing does not stop a turkey being a turkey. |
| The DissolveNoel MurrayAt its best, Nightbreed is like a living version of a coffee-table book, with each page filled with tentacled, quilled, or moon-faced monsters. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfThe Cabal Cut finally captures what Barker was after, warts and all, reinstating depth, emotion, and a human presence to the story, which finds its fantasy footing once again. |
| CraveOnlineFred TopelIf you loved Nightbreed, The Cabal Cut will give you more of what you loved, but it fixes none of the film's shortcomings. It may even emphasize the film's story problems. |
| Empire MagazineWilliam ThomasThe background is more intriguing than the stumbling up-front story, and monster watchers will get full use of the freeze-frame facility. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanBarker spins grisly fantasy out of sexual obsession, yet his style here couldn’t be less obsessive. It’s cluttered and rather incoherent, as though the trailers to four different horror movies had been spliced together. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawClive Barker is the Douglas Sirk of splatter. |