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Nightbreed (1990)
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Viewed:
11/08
11/08:
I knew a kid in middle school who liked to make figures out of aluminum foil, and when I saw his finished products, I had
no idea what the hell they were supposed to be.
But in his mind, he saw something fascinating through them. So, I figured he was on another planet. It's exactly
how I felt about Nightbreed.
A combination of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation,
Big Trouble in Little China, Batman Begins,
Plan 9 from Outer Space, Netherworld, and the 1990
version of Night of the Living Dead, it's one of the worst and most craptacular
pictures I've ever seen in my life.
If there's anything I hate, it's the editing. Mark Goldblatt and Richard Marden...these two are downright idiots. The former
was the editor of Predator 2, Showgirls,
Armageddon, Hollow Man, Pearl Harbor, and
XXX: State of the Union, among others. They're all comic-book films. The way the
scenes are put together is like going from point A to point E while B and D are skipped with C being occasionally touched.
In the absence of a story, the retchful display of visual effects, makeup, and costumes are enough for me to be overcome
like the smell of poop. None of the dialogue is comprehensible, making it hard for me to sit through the last forty minutes.
All in all, Nightbreed has gone south big time.