Part of Midnight Movies
Boone (Craig Sheffer) may be a troubled young man, but his troubles are just beginning. Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, he decides he’ll hide by crossing the threshold that separates “us” from “them” and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian. Boone will live among the monsters.
HELLRAISER creator Clive Barker writes (adapting his novella Cabal) and directs this vivid leap into horror that asks — in the battle of man vs. monster, who’s really the monster? The answer supplies flesh-crawling suspense, sudden fear, David Cronenberg — the actor — as you’ve never seen him before, a colorful Danny Elfman score, and a creepy array of shape-shifting beings. They are the Nightbreed, denizens of a world beyond death, beyond the imagination, perhaps beyond anything you’ve seen.
“It more closely resembles the fantasy world of Guillermo del Toro, circa PAN’S LABYRINTH, in that the freaks and monsters exist for reasons beyond serving as killing machines… It’s really quite unexpectedly special.” —Movie City News
“NIGHTBREED is one of the great lost treasures of fantastic cinema from the 1990s.” —Devin Faraci, IGN