Details For Scream Factory's "Cabal Cut" of Nightbreed

Details have emerged for Scream's upcoming release of the mega-sized (nearly 3 hour) "Cabal Cut" of Clive Barker's Nightbreed. I've only seen the studio butchered version, and that was probably 12 years ago and my memories of it are almost non-existent. In my mind I recall it being kinda like a high brow, classy version of Basket Case III, only with David Cronenberg instead of Annie Ross, but I think that's probably pretty inaccurate. As you can see, I'm quite hazy on any details from the actual film, so I'm  looking forward to checking out this proper version once it comes out.

 Read on for the press release

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, Occupy Midian, was created 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 the 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.”

The original Nightbreed was released in 1990 by Morgan Creek Productions and Twentieth Century Fox. Directed by Clive Barker, the film starred Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby and David Cronenberg and centered on a tribe of monsters and outcasts known as the Nightbreed that hide from humanity.