#OccupyMidian Signs

The Occupy Midian Facebook group has a call for Occupy Midian Sign photos:

My photo:


Sign reads:
My Name: Crystal Raen
I have been blessed to see the Cabal Cut of Nightbreed.
The story moved me to tears and action.
This film must be shared in order to save the breed.
I will #Occupymidian until Cabal’s release.

V's Photo:


My Name is Richie Vaughan.
I’ve been a fan of Nightbreed for 20 years.
The Cabal Cut was everything that I hoped it would be and more. Everyone must see it and be able to own it.
I will #OCCUPYMIDIAN (literally) until the cabal cut is released.

If you want to create your own, just snap a pic with your sign, join Occupy Midian on Facebook and upload your photo to the Occupy Midian Signs. 

Oh I almost forgot, who ever has the most comments on their photo by Midnight on Friday, April 21st will win:

1st Prize: An Uncorrected Proof of Weaveworld
2nd Prize : The Rawhead Rex story arc run of the Nighbreed comics.
3rd Prize : An autographed picture of Clive.

If you can't get your photo into the Occupy Midian Signs photo album, just ask one of the admins for help, those guys are great!

Help us bring back Nightbreed as the Cabal Cut! Occupy Midian and Go Forth and Breed!

More Links on Bringing Back Nightbreed:
Bring Back Nightbreed - a facebook page
Occupy Midian - a facebook group
Nightbreed Petition - sign this to help Morgan Creek realize the number of people that are willing to buy this movie should it come out.
Also if you have not done so, check out: http://clivebarkercast.com for some great podcasts about Clive Barker, Occupy Midian, and more Clive Barker related info.

The Cabal Cut Trailer Has Made its Appearance

Thanks to the guys over at The Clive Barker Podcast, I found out about "The Cabal Cut" Viral teaser trailer, so without further ado:



Teaser Trailer - With Thanks to Russell Cherrington. Animation by Richard Leshone.

Help us to convince Morgan Creek to release the Director's Cut of Nightbreed by Occupying Midian!

Bring Back Nightbreed - a facebook page
Occupy Midian - a facebook group
Nightbreed Petition - sign this to help Morgan Creek realize the number of people that are willing to buy this movie should it come out.
Also if you have not done so, check out: http://clivebarkercast.com for some great podcasts about Clive Barker, Occupy Midian, and more Clive Barker related info.

Image Animation work on Nightbreed

I've been looking through Clive Barker's The Nightbreed Chronicles and am just amazed at how detailed each of Midian's "monsters" is. There are so many amazing creatures that my mind is boggled by it. Even the monster's that are viewed for even a brief second in the film are done in exquisite detailing. I am currently fascinated by the animatornic third-stage Peloquin.

from: Clive Barker's The Nightbreed Chronicles; "No Longer Just Blood 'N' Guts by Stephen Jones"

Nightbreed is worth watching, even if it is just for the wonderful imagery created with the Midian occupants. And the Director's Cut offers even more of these wonderful monsters to feast your eyes upon. The world is opened up and expanded before you in a way that you never would have expected if you've only seen the original release of Nightbreed. This is why so many want to see the Cabal Cut of Nightbreed released to the masses.

Image Animation, which was owned by Bob Keen and Geoff Portass, was responsible for the special make-up effects in Nightbreed. They created around two hundred different breed with the hopes of making Midian look as though it was inhabited by about a thousand creatures.

Bob Keen stated that the most difficult thing about working on Nightbreed was the sheer scale of the project. He also described Nightbreed as 'probably one of the weirdest films we've worked on. It's a great role reversal in that the monsters are the good guys. Clive has ensured that we care for these creatures --- they are all so innocent. For an effects person that meant a completely different set of rules as far as the creatures were concerned: our colour schemes were different, our concepts were different, and anything that was too negative we played down because we wanted people to feel for the Breed.'

Unfortunately, I have been unable to find any recent information on Image Animation and do not know if they are still around or not. If you have any information on them, please let us know!

For those of you who want the chance to see this movie please help by joining the Occupy Midian/Bring Back Nightbreed movement:

Bring Back Nightbreed - a facebook page
Occupy Midian - a facebook group
Nightbreed Petition
Also if you have not done so, check out: http://clivebarkercast.com for some great podcasts about Clive Barker, Occupy Midian, and more Clive Barker related info.

And Pandemonium Breaks Loose...

Tonight's Nightbreed flashback is brought to you from another piece out of Richie V.'s collection. pg. 68 of Pandemonium Conceived and Edited by Michael Brown.

In the top left you have David Cronenberg as the maniacal Dr. Decker. In the original cut of Nightbreed, you miss out on how much of a hold that little mask has on Decker. You get to hear it talk to him (or command him rather) in the Cabal cut, which even if a shorter addition to the movie, is quite a treat in and of itself.

In the top right corner is a Pre-Production sketch of Decker with the button face mask on. I love how skeletal this sketch looks. However, even without the movie Decker looking quite this menacing, that little mask still sometimes shows up in the corners of my most uncomfortable dreams.

Bottom left corner is a Pre-Production sketch of Ashberry transformed. Great little sketch and they stick fairly close with it in the film.

Bottom right corner is Malcolm Smith being made to look like the scalded Ashberry. If you have seen the Cabal cut (which too many of the population hasn't, and we hope that this gets rememdied asap) then you have missed an incredible ending where Ashberry's character has quite a transformation, for me this by itself changed the entire movie and left me yearning to know more about his character.

So many things were made more beautiful and more ugly (in a good way that ugly can sometimes be good) for me. For those of you who want the chance to see this movie please help by joining the Occupy Midian/Bring Back Nightbreed movement:

Bring Back Nightbreed - a facebook page
Occupy Midian - a facebook group
Nightbreed Petition

Preproduction "Nightbreed" Art by Ralph McQuarrie

Richie V. found his Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden book. He wanted to share some images that he felt were the most moving to help with the Occupy Midian and Bring Back Nightbreed movement.

The above photo is Preproduction "Nightbreed" art by Ralph McQuarrie. (If you have the book it is on pg. 342. Click the pic to transport yourself to Ralph McQuarrie's art.)

There are some great quotes in Chapter 36 Frights of Fancy by Nigel Floyd. Thus far my favorite is:

"One [old] guy at Fox never saw it through because he felt it was morally reprehensible and disgusting --the two very things it's not. Their imaginations are limited and they have a very unadventurous sense of what to do."
--Clive Barker
   from "How Fox Bungled Nightbreed Per Clive Barker" by Alan Jones, Cinefantastique Vol. 21, No. 1., July 1990

Another great quote is:

"...I think it's in the tradition of a very much darker Thief of Baghdad, in which you're dealing with a fantastical world which is being, as you can see, created from the ground up."
from: (1991) Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden, edited by Stephen Jones. pg. 343. 

This piece of art, while beautiful in and of itself, isn't quite a true depiction of the entire Nightbreed story. However, with the original release, one would believe that it would be so. The Cabal Cut of Nightbreed would show this piece of art turned around, the monster's suffering at the hands of man. which in this story is unfortunately true.

Which brings us back to one of our favorite questions that surrounds Nightbreed:

Who is truly the real monster?

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For more information on the fight to bring Nightbreed Back as a Director's cut, please visit:
Bring Back Nightbreed - a facebook page
Occupy Midian - a facebook group
Nightbreed Petition