Nightbreed (also Night Breed on publicity material, or Clive Barker's Nightbreed) is a 1990 American dark fantasy horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his 1988 novella Cabal, and starring Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Hugh Quarshie, and Doug Bradley. The film features an unstable mental patient who is falsely led to believe by his doctor that he is a serial killer. Tracked down by the police, his doctor, and his girlfriend Lori, Boone eventually finds refuge in an abandoned cemetery called Midian among a "tribe" of monsters and outcasts known as the "Nightbreed" where they hide from humanity.
Nightbreed was a commercial and critical failure at the time of its release. In several interviews, Barker protested that the film company tried to sell it as a standard slasher film, and that the powers-that-be had no real working knowledge of Nightbreed's story. Since its initial theatrical release, Nightbreed has achieved cult status.
Barker had expressed disappointment with the final cut and longed for the recovery of the reels so it might be re-edited; a director's cut was released by Scream Factory in 2014.Behind the scenes footage of some of the lost scenes has been recovered and can be seen at Barker's Revelations website.
Darkness falls upon us all
And when you're children scream You know that evil calls
The darkest hour of the darkest day
Of a wicked world and a wicked way
The skeletons in the closet you hide
They've been dead for years, but they will never die
Abra-Kadvar, baby, whats the matter?
Was it something I said or does it really not matter?
Dont put your faith in me cause i'll spit it out
Cant you see? God damned my soul
We are the running seems
of all you're hopes and dreams
Evil walks, Evil Breathes,
we all called the Nightbreed
we'll make the buckle melt on your vinyl belt
Know your enemy the Nightbreed
And justice for all, In darkness we fall
In ghouls we trust and into shadows we crawl
Abra-Kadavar, baby, whats the matter?
Was it something I said or does it really not matter?
Dont put your faith in me cause i'll spit it out
Cant you see? God damned my soul
We are the running seems
of all you're hopes and dreams
Evil walks, Evil Breathes,
we are called the Nightbreed
we'll make the buckle melt on your vinyl belt
Know your enemy the Nightbreed
God damned my soul
God damned my soul
God damned my soul
God damned...
Evil walks, Evil Breathes,
we are called the Nightbreed
Evil walks, Evil Breathes,
we are called the Nightbreed
we'll make the buckle melt on your vinyl belt