so very sick rn so watching movies - can't do much else, so ended up watching the 2hr cut of nightbreed, I'd read Cabal years ago and want to reread but i think, apart from hellraissr, Nightbreed was the 2nd thing I'd seen with his name attached
theres so much good shit in this film i did not appreciate before
the "grotesque" designs are alongside the more "cool monster" ones and say nothing about the personality of the character - like the very film is goading you to reflexively dislike the more monstrous midianites and then realise you're making a knee-jerk asshole judgement about someone entirely based upon their appearance
and like, obv, having David Cronenberg as the super clean cut suit wearing killer psychiatrist is great - his mask is a goofy Scary Killer Mask but he "looks normal"
without his mask, probably no-one would give him shit just going to buy milk but he's a literal killer
the amount of people who would be able to regurgitate "don't judge a book by its cover" by rote but do that *every single day* is embarrassing
anyway, nightbreed:
the film could have been better but it has a place forever in my heart,
being a lil confused queer when i first saw it, id takeb a lot of shit (you know, physical violence etc) there was something appealing in a place you could escape to with a bunch of cool freaks
and its such a really fucking gay film