Scream Factory, the horror-thriller offshoot of independent film distributor Shout Factory, and Morgan Creek Productions announced today that they have teamed up to bring to Blu-ray an Extended Director's Cut of director Clive Barker's cult film
Nightbreed (1990), starring Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, and David Cronenberg. The release is expected to arrive on the market in early 2014.
The official announcement was made earlier today by Shout Factory's founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos along with David Robinson, President of Morgan Creek Productions.
For years rumors swirled about substantial missing footage from the film. A fan-driven movement was created (www.OccupyMidian.com) 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."