NIGHTBREED: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT COMBO - NIGHTBREED: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT COMBO (2 Blu-ray)

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The climax of the film culminates in an assault on the Nightbreed's home base of Midian as the 'normies' would rather kill all of them as opposed to understand them. The weird tone is more even-handed, creating a better, more potent mix of Barker-level drama and horror. Closer to the climax of Nightbreed, there's a new scene in which Rachel picks up Lori in a car to go find Boone, in the hopes he can save Midian. While not really much worse than the true Barker`s vision in the director`s cut, there are significant differences between them. Under pressure from his girlfriend Lori (Anne Bobby, Born on the Fourth of July), he attends psychotherapy sessions, unaware that his shrink, Dr Decker (Videodrome director David Cronenberg), is setting him up to take the fall for a series of violent murders.

In his review for the Toronto Star, Henry Mietkiewicz wrote " Nightbreed might have been a monster movie milestone, if Clive Barker's directorial abilities had kept pace with his skill as a master of British horror fiction. A drunken priest named Ashberry joins them as God's servant in their upcoming battle against Midian. But Barker's most perverse touch is that he makes these creatures the good guys (no wonder the PR flacks were bamboozled). This was originally available on VHS/Laser Disc, and then a bare-bones DVD in North America in 2002.

I feel The Director's Cut is a happy medium where Barker was able to oversee it enough to be glad with it, and whilst there's still some stuff in there that could've been trimmed out, it's worth a trip. Eigerman shares this desire, but Ashberry rejects Eigerman's offer, kills him, and starts his hunt for the Nightbreed. This was my first time seeing a cut of the film closer to Clive Barkers intentions and it left me wanting more. The theatrical release was not included but anyone who wants this film already owns a copy of the theatrical cut.

Barker piles on more subversive subtext than his story can bear — it's a monster movie, after all — but his daft, Grand Guignol vision has real power. It’s charming enough to not be boring, but does not live up to the revolting hyper-theatricality of Hellraiser . The Nightbreed await Boone in a barn whilst Boone says his goodbyes to Lori, as he must find a new home for the Nightbreed. It is difficult to suggest that evil is human and monsters have souls within the context of a mountain of special effects. I grew up with the butchered theatrical cut (weirdly I prefer the ending in that one) and had the pleasure of watching The Cabal Cut many moons ago, which adds so many extra scenes that it became overstuffed with things that weren't really needed.This version is the most complete version of Barker's film available and has been dubbed The Cabal Cut.