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| Topic | Gauntlet Crew Ranks 90s Horror Films - Do you like ranking scary movies? |
| MetalmindStats 06/28/19 10:53:07 PM #171: | 14. Nightbreed Version Watched: Directors Cut This Clive Barker misfire tries to make a bold point about the capacity for evil within humanity, while simultaneously striving to live up to its genre. Its attempt to have its cake and eat it too proves fruitless, since it fails to provide any compelling reason to care about the Nightbreeds and their fate. The action and scares dont work either; the extended climax in particular is a cacophonous mess, and the ending comes off as confusion for its own sake. Its deadly serious treatment of ludicrous subject matter (offset slightly by a few glaringly campy moments) doesnt help. On the plus side, the villains are suitably villainous; in particular, David Cronenberg puts up a great performance as the dodgy doctor Decker. --- "I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people who do." You won the CBX Guru Contest, Advokaiser! Bully for you! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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