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

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

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and i thought i was imagining it as a teenager(!)

this dumb child did not know Clive H* Barker was gay

(*H is for homosexual)

in my defense, no internet and *being* gay was still A Bad Thing in Ireland :/

and now, watching it again

yeah, a bunch of proud freaks go live together away from bs and then using the pretext of Crime the straights pour in with firearms and brimstone to burn their house down and wipe them out

all these beautiful unique creatures trying to just live their life , but you don't get that forever

its interesting how the ending explicitly spells out

"No home lasts forever, its you and your community that has to survive"

grim truth

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

also, there are some very fuckable monsters in this film

some truly fantastic sets in the Below as well, kinda place id love to walk around - even just a digitisation of it in VR , they built a wonderful 3d set and it's a shame you don't get to see more of it

its still not a perfect film, its heartbreaking knowing how butchered it was in the cut, how they **dubbed over doug bradley** , cut out what looks like an incredible sex scene (etc)

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