Title: Nightbreed: The Cabal Cut
Starring: Misunderstood Freaks
Released: 28th October 2014
SRP: $79.97, $29.93

Further Details:
Scream Factory sent over a big update on their Director's Cut Blu-ray releases of Clive Barker's

Nightbreed

:

Quote:

New statement from Clive Barker’s Office:

The Nightbreed Director's Cut is an entirely different film than the one which was released in theaters. Its 20 minutes longer than the theatrical cut, but it contains over 40 minutes of new and altered footage. Clive oversaw the reconstruction and edit himself, personally ensuring that, at long last, he was able to tell the story he always wanted to tell, but until now, had never been given the chance. Once the scenes were reordered, and the original film footage restored, the entire film received a brand new sound mix and color pass. It is, in every way, a different movie. It contains more story, more monsters, and there's even a musical umber. Ultimately, what we've delivered is a love story 25 years in the making.
 
Final details on the two retail sets are as follows:
DVD & Blu-ray combo pack Special Edition set:  

• New “Director’s Cut” presentation of the film which contains over 40 minutes of new and altered footage
• Introduction by writer/director Clive Barker and restoration producer Mark Alan Miller
• Audio Commentary by writer/director Clive Barker and restoration producer Mark Alan Miller
• Tribes of the Moon: The Making of Nightbreed featuring interviews with Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, Doug Bradley and more… (72 minutes)
• Making Monsters  - interviews with makeup effects artists Bob Keen, Martin Mercer and Paul Jones (42 minutes)
• Fire! Fights! Stunts! 2nd Unit Shooting -  an interview with Andy Armstrong (20 minutes)
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• 1080p, 1:78 Video
• DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio
• English Subtitles

Limited Edition 3-Disc Blu-ray Set 10,000 Numbered Pieces):
Disc One: Director's Cut:

• New “Director’s Cut” presentation of the film which contains over 40 minutes of new and altered footage
• Introduction by writer/director Clive Barker and restoration producer Mark Alan Miller
• Audio Commentary by writer/director Clive Barker and restoration producer Mark Alan Miller
• Tribes of the Moon: The Making of Nightbreed
• Making Monsters
• Fire! Fights! Stunts! 2nd Unit Shooting
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• 1080p, 1:78 Video
• DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio
• English Subtitles

Disc Two: Bonus Disc:

• Deleted and Alternate Scenes (approx. 20 minutes)
• Monster Prosthetics Master Class
• Cutting Compromise – an interview with editor Mark Goldblatt
• The Painted Landscape: The Concept Art of Ralph McQuarrie
• Matte Painting Tests
• Makeup Tests
• Stop Motion Lost Footage
• Extended Torture Scene
• Rehearsal of Boone’s dream
• Extensive Still Galleries – Early Sketches, Deleted Scene, Posters and Pre-Production art, On the Set, The Cast and Crew

Disc Three: Theatrical Cut:

• New transfer from the inter-positive
• 1080p, 1:78 Video
• DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Audio
• English Subtitles

All the original information follows:

At San Diego Comic Con this year Shout Factory imprint Scream Factory announced they might have the extended cut of Clive Barker's

Night Breed

coming out sometime next year. Now they have an official press release to verify the claim, which I have included below.

Quote: 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.'

Update

: The fine folks at Shock Till You Drop noticed a Fangoria interview in which Clive Barker and Seraphim Films' Mark Miller state that the Scream Factory release will

not

be the Cabal Cut, but a newly assembled director's cut.
Quote: The Cabal Cut was created by us in-house from the footage we found in the storage rooms.  This 160-minute beast has every bit of

Nightbreed

footage we had access to incorporated into the cut.  We put everything we found back in a) just to be able to say we'd seen that version and b) because we needed as much of the proverbial scultpor's rock to chip away from for what would become the finished masterwork: The Director's Cut. More importantly, the VHS footage will be put through a high-definition digitization process to make certain that this is the best version of Nightbreed possible.
Hopefully there will be an official announcement from Scream Factory on this matter, though there is still no release date set for their release.

Update Number 2

: There will be two versions of the film released on Blu-ray on October 28th of this year.

The Limited Edition collection (only 5,000 sets produced) will include:

• Disc 1: Unrated Director’s Cut of the film on Blu-ray
• Disc 2: The 1990 R-Rated theatrical version of the film on Blu-ray (through a special licensing agreement through Warner Bros.)
• Disc 3: EXCLUSIVE-TO-THIS-SET Bonus Blu-ray disc packed with extras (details forthcoming)
• Collector’s Book with an essay and rare photos
• Slipcase includes newly designed artwork approved by Clive Barker
• $79.97 SRP

The Special Edition collection will include:

• Disc 1: Unrated Director’s Cut of the film on Blu-ray
• Disc 2: The 1990 R-Rated theatrical version of the film on Blu-ray (through a special licensing agreement through Warner Bros.)
• Collector’s Book with an essay and rare photos
• Slipcase includes newly designed artwork approved by Clive Barker
• $29.93 SRP

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