NIGHTBREED: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT COMBO - NIGHTBREED: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT COMBO (2 Blu-ray)

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Do note that some of the music has been looped for this director’s cut, since Elfman was not available to rescore it. The scene in which Lylesburg introduces the resurrected Boone to Baphomet is also longer, and there's a new scene where Lylesburg tries to stop Lori from looking for Boone inside Midian. The first compromise Barker made was to change the title of the film from Cabal to Nightbreed because Morgan Creek insisted on a more commercial title and thought that the original one did not mean anything. That film, Nightbreed (1990), was shot on a sizable budget with significant studio backing and was designed as the first of a series (at least one sequel was planned at Morgan Creek). After 24 years, Clive Barker's cult classic Nightbreed finally got its due with a director's cut in 2014, and here's everything that changed.

The victim of studio interference and an unrepresentative marketing campaign, Nightbreed was poorly received by critics on its initial release and failed to ignite the box office, but has since undergone a radical reappraisal. Tribes of the Moon: The Making of Nightbreed featuring interviews with Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, Doug Bradley and more . During an interview in 2022 on The Ghost of Hollywood, cinematographer Robin Vidgeon, mentioned that he disliked working with David Cronenberg, stating Cronenberg complained to Clive that he was being usurped. In an article on Elfman, described as a rising composer in Hollywood who had just scored Tim Burton's Batman and was about to score Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy, Entertainment Weekly 's Ron Givens noted that Nightbreed wouldn't get as much attention as these two big-budget movies, yet Givens praised Elfman's "needle-sharp crescendos and creepy choral plainchants" and added: "Seldom has scary-movie music been so spiritual".

Despite the increased length, the pacing is better and the accelerated storytelling helps cover some of the weaker plotting, especially anything concerning character motivations, though seemingly, without reshoot time and access to everything Barker originally shot, there are still substantial holes in the narrative. The result is patchy in the extreme and not always capable of transcending a genre that has become less and less intriguing as less and less is left to the imagination".

Shout later published a Special Edition Blu-ray / DVD combo pack and a 3-disc limited edition Blu-ray, containing a booklet and the theatrical cut.

For years, Barker dreamed about finding it and creating a director's cut, and finally, Shout Factory provided him that opportunity. Eigerman shares this desire, but Ashberry rejects Eigerman's offer, kills him, and starts his hunt for the Nightbreed.