NIGHTBREED Extended Director’s Cut Coming To Blu-ray In 2014!
Scream Factory continues its rampage of making Blu-ray horror fans a happy lot. At San Diego Comic Con last month, they announced a slew of upcoming titles. As a bonus, they also shared the news that they had finalized a deal to release the long sought after, fan demanded and legendary “Cabal Cut” of the 1990 Clive Barker film, Nightbreed. Today, they (teaming with Morgan Creek Productions) give their first “official” announcement of it and some other details regarding how it came to fruition. It appears as if the phrase “Cabal Cut” will only end up being fanspeak as they look to make an effort of referring to where the term “Cabal” came from but clearly labeling this as an “Extended Director’s Cut”. This is going to definitely be one of the biggest horror catalog releases next year and they definitely know what they have on their hands with what they’re calling an “aggressive rollout”. Since its Scream Factory, I don’t need to tell you how great the bonus features and box art are going to be. As always, stay tuned to Why So Blu? for future details and preorder of this hotly anticipated release! The official word from Scream Factory follows the jump!
EXTENDED DIRECTOR’S CUT OF CLIVER BARKER’S “NIGHTBREED”
SCHEDULED TO BE RELEASED IN 2014 FROM SCREAM FACTORY
Los Angeles, CA August 19, 2013 — Shout! Factory and Morgan Creek Productions officially announced today a strategic distribution alliance to bring Clive Barker’s classic horror film “Nightbreed” extended director’s cut to the home entertainment marketplace in the U.S and Canada and on digital entertainment platforms next year. The announcement was made by Shout! Factory’s founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos along with David Robinson, President of Morgan Creek Productions. The news initially broke at Comic-Con 2013, however the agreement formally reached by both parties occurred today.
For years rumors swirled about substantial missing footage from the film. A fan-driven movement was created (www.OccupyMidian.com) to see the full version of the film restored and re-released, which was not only a more faithful adaptation of Clive Barker’s book “Cabal,” but is what originally he intended “Nightbreed” to be.
Clive Barker said, “I had a dream about the tribes of the moon. They would live in a city called Midian and, though they were monsters of every shape and size, they would be the heroes of a movie called “Nightbreed.” However, when I made the movie, the studio was not comfortable with this inversion of the classic structure. They wanted the monsters to be simple-minded scare machines, while I wanted them to be the dark side of all of us, mysterious and misunderstood. Finally, with this new version of “Nightbreed,” which contains over forty five minutes of previously unseen material, my original vision has been realized. Come with me to Midian, the city of monsters. The tribes of the moon await us.”
“We are excited by this opportunity with Morgan Creek and are huge fans of Clive Barker. His cinematic works and brilliant storytelling continue to captivate fans worldwide,” stated Shout! Factory’s founders in a joint statement. “We look forward to working closely with Clive to bring his original vision to life.”
Shout!’s SCREAM FACTORY plans an aggressive rollout of “Nightbreed” extended director’s cut through physical home entertainment releases and a variety of digital entertainment distribution platforms sometimes next year.
“We’d also like to take this opportunity to thank the fans,” noted Robinson. “Without their hard work and persistence, this would have never become a reality. Clive Barker is one of the greats, and we are tremendously proud and excited to be working with him and Shout! Factory on this release.”
The original “Nightbreed” was released in 1990 by Morgan Creek Productions and Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Clive Barker, the film starred Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby and David Cronenberg and centered on a tribe of monsters and outcasts known as the Nightbreed that hide from humanity. The official “Nightbreed” page can be found at https://www.facebook.com/FansOfNightbreed
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