

Nightbreed
A new reason to fear the night.
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer is looking for a patsy.
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6.4/10
569 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $11M
- Box office
- $8.9M
- Language
- English
- monster
- escape
- supernatural
- serial killer
- dark fantasy
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Produced in
United States of America, United Kingdom
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR16 Feb 1990
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical28 Sept 1990
FranceFR
- Theatrical16 Jan 1991
- PhysicalDVD14 Oct 2015
- PhysicalBlu-Ray17 Mar 2021
GermanyDE
- Theatrical163 Oct 1990
ItalyIT
- TheatricalVM1430 Nov 1990
SwedenSE
- Theatrical1510 Aug 1990
- TV15TV100019 Jun 1999
- Physical15Blu-ray21 Apr 2025
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Nightbreed was released on 16 February 1990.
Audience reviews
3- T6/10
tmdb15214618
6/23/2020
The movie fails to provide vital information about its world, either early enough or altogether. Without an understanding of what's happening on the screen, the initial story developments fail to make an emotional connection. What the viewer is left with is an appreciation for the darkly fantastical world and the technical prowess it would have required by the film crew to create. (Some of us will also appreciate the…
- T
TheTenth
10/29/2024
What a difficult thing it is to review this movie. First the movie most people have seen is not the movie Clive Barker created, as the studio did the final cut without Barker's approval or even contacting him at all. So the studio (and the infamous test audience, people with no intelligence and movie or art knowledge) released what they thought ot be a summer monster movie ... The Director's cut released way later i…
- M10/10
misubisu
8/22/2025
This review is of the Director's Cut which has 45 minutes of changed footage (a lot added and some removed/replaced)... The Director's cut is basically a different movie, that tells a different and much more complete story. Way more footage of the monsters in Midian... backstory on the main monsters... an ending that makes total sense. The movie that Clive Barker wanted to release, before the studio tried to turn …
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