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Nightbreed
''Nightbreed'' is a 1990 American dark fantasy horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his 1988 novella ''Cabal''. It stars Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Hugh Quarshie, and Doug Bradley. The film follows an unstable mental patient named Aaron Boone who is falsely led to believe by his doctor that he is a serial killer. Tracked down by the police, his doctor, and his girlfriend Lori, Boone eventually finds refuge in an abandoned cemetery called Midian among a tribe of monsters and outcasts known as the "Nightbreed" who hide from humanity. At the time of its release, the film was a commercial and critical failure. In several interviews, Barker protested that the film company tried to sell it as a standard slasher film, and that the powers-that-be had no real working knowledge of ''Nightbreed''s story. Since its initial theatrical release, ''Nightbreed'' has become a cult film. Over time, Barker expressed disappointment with the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Barker
Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English writer, filmmaker, and visual artist. He came to prominence in the 1980s with a series of short stories collectively named the ''Books of Blood'', which established him as a leading horror author. His work has been adapted into films, notably the ''Hellraiser (franchise), Hellraiser'' series (the first installment of which he also wrote and directed) and the ''Candyman (film series), Candyman'' series. Barker's paintings and illustrations have been shown in galleries in the United States, and have appeared in his books. He has also created characters and series for comic books, and some of his more popular horror stories have been featured in ongoing comics series. Early life Barker was born in Liverpool on 5 October 1952. His mother, Joan Ruby (née Revill), was a painter and school welfare officer; his father, Leonard Barker, worked as the personnel director for an industrial relations firm. He was educated at Dovedale Primary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Sheffer
Craig Eric Sheffer (born April 23, 1960) is an American film and television actor. He is known for his starring roles as Hardy Jenns in '' Some Kind of Wonderful'' (1987), Aaron "Cabal" Boone in '' Nightbreed'' (1990), Norman Maclean in '' A River Runs Through It ''(1992), Joe Kane in '' The Program'' (1993), Joseph in ''Bliss'' (1997), and as Keith Scott on the television series '' One Tree Hill'' (2003–12). Early life Sheffer was born in York, Pennsylvania, where his father worked as a prison guard. He began acting in school plays while attending York Suburban Senior High School, competing regional and state drama competitions. He attended East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania for two years on a sports scholarship, playing baseball and football, until sustaining a knee injury. He dropped out in 1980 to pursue his acting career. Sheffer moved to New York City at the behest of his then-girlfriend, but they broke up shortly thereafter, and Sheffer spent some time home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Bobby
Anne Marie Bobby (born December 12, 1967) is an American actress, voice artist, playwright and author, best known for her role as Lori Winston, the heroine in Clive Barker's ''Nightbreed'' and Brigid Tenenbaum in the BioShock (series), ''BioShock'' series. She was praised by ''The Washington Post'' for her portrayal of Tallasse in ''What the Deaf Man Heard'' (1997). The ''Los Angeles Times'' called Bobby's Tallasse "a sensitive, insightful portrayal." Bobby also played a police officer in ''Cop Rock'' and in 2016, the ''The New York Times, New York Times'' compared her performance in, "Why Can't a Man Be More Like a Woman?" to a Broadway theatre, Broadway performance. In another musical, ''Groundhog'', Bobby was praised for her duets and solos. She attended NYU, where she studied Anthropology and Classics. Selected film, television and other credits References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bobby, Anne Living people 1967 births American television actresses Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabal (novella)
''Cabal'' is a 1988 horror novella by the British author Clive Barker. It was originally published in the United States as part of a collection comprising a novel and several short stories from Barker's sixth and final volume of the '' Books of Blood''. Plot Boone, a young man suffering from an unspecified mental disorder, is told by his trusted psychiatrist, Decker, that he is responsible for brutal serial murders in Calgary, which Boone has no recollection of committing. After a suicide attempt, Boone is taken to a clinic and told by a fellow patient named Narcisse that he knows the location of Midian, a semi-mythical city that welcomes monsters. Believing that Boone is an emissary of Midian, Narcisse reveals Midian's location to him and maniacally savages his own face with a razor. Horrified, Boone escapes the clinic. Following Narcisse's directions, Boone locates Midian, which lies beneath a cemetery. At the cemetery, two denizens of Midian, known as Night Breed, reveal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan Creek Productions
Morgan Creek Entertainment, LLC is an American film production company, former sales agent and investor, that has released box-office hits including ''Young Guns (film), Young Guns'', ''Dead Ringers (film), Dead Ringers'', ''Major League (film), Major League'', ''True Romance'', ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'', ''The Crush (1993 film), The Crush'', ''Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'' and ''The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film), The Last of the Mohicans''. The studio was co-founded in 1987 by James G. Robinson and Joe Roth. Robinson leads the company as chairman and CEO. His two sons, Brian Robinson and David C. Robinson, run the day-to-day operations. The company name comes from Roth's favorite film, ''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek''. Their most recent film is ''The Exorcist: Believer'', which was released on October 6, 2023. Morgan Creek generally releases their films through larger studios while retaining the copyrights, and making autonomous decisions on home video and television r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Elfman
Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Since scoring his first studio film in 1985, Elfman has garnered international recognition for composing over 100 feature film scores, as well as compositions for television, stage productions, and the concert hall. Elfman has frequently worked with directors Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, and Gus Van Sant, contributing music to nearly 20 Burton projects, including '' Pee-Wee's Big Adventure'', ''Beetlejuice'', ''Batman'', '' Edward Scissorhands'', '' Batman Returns'', '' Mars Attacks!'', '' Sleepy Hollow'', '' Big Fish'' and '' Alice in Wonderland'', as well as scoring Raimi's '' Darkman'', '' A Simple Plan'', ''Spider-Man'', '' Spider-Man 2'', '' Oz the Great and Powerful'', and '' Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness'', and Van Sant's Academy Award-winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Vidgeon
Robin Vidgeon (born 12 August 1939) BSC, is a retired cinematographer best known for his work on ''Hellraiser'', '' Hellbound: Hellraiser II'' and ''Nightbreed''. For many years, he was a focus puller, working with the late cinematographer Douglas Slocombe and camera operator Bernard (Chic) Waterson. Early life As a child, Robin took an early interest in film, creating his own dark room and using a 9.5mm projector to screen movies for his neighbors. In 1956, he would go to work at Pinewood Studios cleaning equipment boxes. In 1959, he left Pinewood and applied for various jobs in the industry before he was eventually hired by Douglas Slocombe to work as a focus puller on ''Circus of Horrors''. Work with Slocombe For the next twenty five years, Robin would work with Slocombe on numerous films such as ''Rollerball'', ''The Great Gatsby'' and ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'', to name just a few. After completing production on the ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baphomet
Baphomet is a figure incorporated across various occult and Western esotericism, Western esoteric traditions. During Trials of the Knights Templar, trials starting in 1307, the Knights Templar were accused of heresy for worshipping Baphomet as a Demon, demonic Cult image, idol. Baphomet subsequently resurfaced during 19th century speculation and debate regarding the suppression of the Templars, with various occult and mystical traditions claiming Baphomet as a symbol of balance and synthesis, originating in teachings of the Gnostics, while others maintained Baphomet as a profane deity. Since 1856 the figure of Baphomet has been associated with the Sabbatic Goat illustration by Éliphas Lévi, composed of binary elements representing the "symbolization of the equilibrium of opposites": both Human–animal hybrid, human and animal, both Androgyny, masculine and feminine, combined in Unity of opposites, metaphysical unity. Lévi's intention was to symbolize his concept of balance, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Bradley
Douglas William Bradley (born 7 September 1954) is an English actor best known for his role as the Cenobite leader Pinhead in the ''Hellraiser'' film series. Early life Douglas William Bradley was born in Liverpool on 7 September 1954. He attended Quarry Bank High School in the Allerton suburb of Liverpool. Career Bradley is best known for portraying the villainous Cenobite leader Pinhead in the first eight installments of the ''Hellraiser'' film series, which were adapted from books written by his long-time friend and former classmate Clive Barker; he also portrayed Captain Elliot Spencer, the man who later became Pinhead, in '' Hellbound: Hellraiser II'' (1988) and '' Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth'' (1992). He is one of only six actors to play the same horror character at least six consecutive times, the others being Christopher Lee ( Count Dracula), Robert Englund ( Freddy Krueger), Warwick Davis ( the Leprechaun), Brad Dourif ( Chucky) and Tobin Bell ( Jigsa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Quarshie
Hugh Anthony Quarshie (born 22 December 1954) is a Ghanaian-born British actor. He is known for his long-running role as Ric Griffin on the BBC One medical drama ''Holby City'' (2001–20), and for playing Captain Panaka in the ''Star Wars'' film '' Episode I – The Phantom Menace'' (1999). He is also known for stage roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, of which he has been a member since 1981 and an associate since 2005. His film work includes '' Highlander'', '' Nightbreed'' and '' Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald''. In 1987, he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and in 2022 he was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for playing Neville Lawrence in ''Stephen'' (2021). He has also won a Critics' Circle Theatre Award and an Emmy Award. Early life A member of the Euro-African community of Ghana, Quarshie is of mixed Ghanaian, English and Dutch ancestry. He was born in Accra, Ghana, to Emma Wilhelm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Roth
Joseph Emanuel Roth (born June 13, 1948) is an American film executive, producer and director. He co-founded Morgan Creek Entertainment in 1988 and was chairman of 20th Century Fox (1989–1993), Caravan Pictures (1993–1994), and Walt Disney Studios (1994–2000) before founding Revolution Studios in 2000, then Roth/Kirschenbaum Films in 2007. Early life Roth was born on June 13, 1948 to Frances and Lawrence Roth. He has stated that his Jewish family faced various forms of harassment growing up in a heavily Catholic part of Long Island, New York. This involved incidents like "a cross being burned on the lawn and some of Roth's schoolmates crossed themselves before they would speak to him." In 1959, Roth's father volunteered his son to be a plaintiff in the ACLU's effort to abolish mandatory prayer in public schools. The case, filed in New York, went through several appeals, finally reaching the U.S. Supreme Court in 1962. The Court ruled that such prayer was unconstitu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriella Martinelli
Gabriella Martinelli is a Canadian film and television producer. She is president and CEO of Toronto-based Capri Films Inc., a vertically integrated production and distribution company that she founded in 2000. Born in Italy, Martinelli emigrated to Canada with her family when she was a child. She studied art history and film at Carleton University in Ottawa and at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. From 1980 to 1984, Martinelli produced and served as production manager on television commercials and TV variety specials. She went on to coordinate the Canadian feature films ''Walls'' and '' My American Cousin.'' Martinelli went on from there to work as head of production for the Toronto-based Independent Pictures, serving as associate producer on ''John and the Missus'' and co-producer of ''Milk and Honey''. Martinelli's producing credits also include Baz Luhrmann's ''Romeo + Juliet'', David Cronenberg's ''Naked Lunch'' and ''M. Butterfly'', Clive Barker's ''Nightbreed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
