Clive Barker’s second movie Nightbreed, made in 1990, is one of the great butchered movies. Like Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons and William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist 3, Nightbreed was a fantastic movie, heavily re-edited by clueless studio executives who failed to understand the movie they were watching. Also like those two movies, the cut footage was considered lost.
However, a workprint has been discovered with not only the 20 minutes known to have been cut, but a whole 45 minutes of extra footage! At the moment, it’s only on VHS and not of releasable quality. But, you can help get this lost masterpiece released uncut on DVD or Blu-Ray (so far, only a barebones region 1 DVD of the cut version has been released – way to help piracy, guys!). How? The official Clive Barker website is collecting emails and tweets to show the studio that there’s enough support out there to justify the cost of DVD/Blu-Ray production.