Nightbreed

Fascinatingly misguided - plays like a butchered Wikipedia entry of The Iliad, read after drinking ayahuasca. There are so many clearly great ideas and threads whispered and abandoned (a Luciferian hero's journey? allllllllrighty then!). Cronenberg is a hoot. If this is ever remade as a limited series on Premium Cable, then I think we'll have something.

In all honesty, I didn't have a particularly firm grasp on what the hell was going on here, or why I should be interested in it. I get the impression this was always going to be a bit of a struggle to get to the screen. Cronenberg brings some fine creepiness to the party, and there is a load of ambition and imagination behind the film as a whole, but it just didn't work for me, sadly.

What a cool idea. I hope that this film earns a place in horror history. It is pretty well made and I'll never forget the movie poster for it because I got it from our local video store when they took it down.

Poorly made horror film that is not scary when it tries to be, and is not funny when it tries to be. Interesting mutant designs are really all that's there.

Don't give Clive BArker free reign to do what he wants because you might get bullshit nonsense like this no wonder the studio went apeshit trying to salvage this garbage. The Elfman score is totally out of place with a movie like this I kept waiting for Batman to swoop in. Watch this for Cronenberg: total ghoul.