I’m sold, Jean. Gonna have to check this one out. Awesome cover art work, too. This visually reminds me of Night Breed. A movie I appreciate more than I actually enjoy unfortunately. I think it had a lot of studio interference if I’m not mistaken and gets so close to a genuine classic status like Hellraiser but just doesn’t quite get there for me. Even with Cronenberg as the serial killing villain.
Question..do you have Night Breed’s Cabal cut on your copy as well?
Yeah, I’m sure there are some thematic links to Nightbreed (visually and narratively) here, but I can’t be 100% because I still need to watch Nightbreed. It’s kind of a whole to do, because I have the Shout Factory 4K UHD (which is great because it has everything that was in their limited edition BD which was both Directors and theatrical cut), and Im trying to decide if I should watch the theatrical cut first and see how I feel about it and then watch the directors cut and see how that improves it; or maybe do it the other way around. Not sure.
For Underworld I watched the directors cut first and then the longer cut, and I did concur that the shorter cut is better, because the longer cut does feel like studio meddling to clarify things that are best left ambiguous. I wonder if I’ll feel the same for Nightbreed.
Omgosh! No I unfortunately don’t own the cabal cut of Nightbreed, and that’s a whole other factor I need to dig into. I think ARROW VIDEO released that one in UK at some point, I have yet to try to acquire it.
I hope you do check out Underworld, it’s certainly of its time but I think it’s kind of fun and worth seeing. It makes me want to check out Rawhead Rex which Barker and Pavlou made before this one and is a movie I remember watching on VHS as a kid and being too scared to watch it all the way through.
So I’m aware of RawHead Rex and remember the VHS as a kid but haven’t watched. Need to see that one as well. Might make a good double feature.
I haven’t seen the cabal cut either. I’ve seen the theatrical and director’s cut and the dc was an improvement but still didn’t get there. Maybe the cabal cut gets closest to Barker’s vision.
I’m sold, Jean. Gonna have to check this one out. Awesome cover art work, too. This visually reminds me of Night Breed. A movie I appreciate more than I actually enjoy unfortunately. I think it had a lot of studio interference if I’m not mistaken and gets so close to a genuine classic status like Hellraiser but just doesn’t quite get there for me. Even with Cronenberg as the serial killing villain.
Question..do you have Night Breed’s Cabal cut on your copy as well?
Yeah, I’m sure there are some thematic links to Nightbreed (visually and narratively) here, but I can’t be 100% because I still need to watch Nightbreed. It’s kind of a whole to do, because I have the Shout Factory 4K UHD (which is great because it has everything that was in their limited edition BD which was both Directors and theatrical cut), and Im trying to decide if I should watch the theatrical cut first and see how I feel about it and then watch the directors cut and see how that improves it; or maybe do it the other way around. Not sure.
For Underworld I watched the directors cut first and then the longer cut, and I did concur that the shorter cut is better, because the longer cut does feel like studio meddling to clarify things that are best left ambiguous. I wonder if I’ll feel the same for Nightbreed.
Omgosh! No I unfortunately don’t own the cabal cut of Nightbreed, and that’s a whole other factor I need to dig into. I think ARROW VIDEO released that one in UK at some point, I have yet to try to acquire it.
I hope you do check out Underworld, it’s certainly of its time but I think it’s kind of fun and worth seeing. It makes me want to check out Rawhead Rex which Barker and Pavlou made before this one and is a movie I remember watching on VHS as a kid and being too scared to watch it all the way through.
Have you seen Rex or have any memory of it?
So I’m aware of RawHead Rex and remember the VHS as a kid but haven’t watched. Need to see that one as well. Might make a good double feature.
I haven’t seen the cabal cut either. I’ve seen the theatrical and director’s cut and the dc was an improvement but still didn’t get there. Maybe the cabal cut gets closest to Barker’s vision.