LogFAQs > #923993844

Charon - A film that clearly should have been a series, Nightbreed suffers from a bloated cast we're supposed to care about a world that's never properly explained. What strikes me the most is the way characters discuss Midian. It's like... "oh yeah, Midian, I've heard of it. I'll be right there", but in reality Midian is just this random graveyard but people discuss it like it's a town even before they know what it is. There's some promise here, I mean I do like the lead character well enough and the villain is also decent, but they kinda get buried here by some freaky nonsense here and there. I really feel that this would have found a better home in a series or miniseries; there seems to be a lot of universe to expand upon that never really was, and even with the way the movie ended they sort of hint at that as well. It's not necessarily a bad movie, just a little bit clumsy.

Genny - Nightbreed drops you into a world where nothing is explained thoroughly enough. The Nightbreed are an intriguing concept as a race, and I wanted to like the movie based on the premise alone, but it ends up being just okay. 6.5/10

Karo - So there is apparently this hidden city in the woods filled with people in silly makeup called the nightbreed, and some guy goes there and becomes one of them and they all fight some dipshit rednecks while constantly cutting to a shot of some random ghoul leering at the camera with some shit-faced smirk because that is supposed to be like scary or something. The nightbreed themselves are an inconstant assortment of rejected horror movie concept art brought to life by people who constantly change their minds throughout the story on whether they want their monsters to be grotesque or sympathetic. It doesnt help things that the film is incompetently directed and written with no sense of direction or pacing. Plot elements are thrown out willy-nilly and then soon forgotten, the tone of the movie shifts wildly between any given scene, and it is impossible to form any sort of connection to anything that is going on. In the wake of all this unpleasntry we are left with a confusing mess of a movie that doesnt know what the hell it wants to be. Is it a slasher movie with Mr. Sackhead? Is it the story of a man turning into a monster after being bitten? It is a moral fable about bigotry? Is it the result of consuming way too much weed? It is somehow all of these cliched things simultaneously, and all of them poorly. Please keep the creators of this film far far away from any more movie cameras, and for the love of god don't let them breed. In the night or otherwise.

Inviso - This movie was stupid. LikeIm genuinely confused by the plot and what the point was. There were too many characters that just got flung at the screen without properly explaining the purpose behind them. I dont completely understand why the serial killer psychotherapist had it out for Boone? Like, I get using him as a fall guybut why would you use him as a fall guy for crimes that no one really had any lead on? The movie also introduces a priest over halfway through its runtime, and suddenly he becomes a major character forreasons? And hell, even the plot of the Nightbreed themselves seemed unsure as to whether it was possible to portray them as good guys. This film was just trying too hard to be both creepy AND fantasy, and it didnt work for me on either end of the spectrum.
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