Fresh Edit of Cult Horror Film Proves Monster Hit
2 May 2013
(Left to right) Hellraiser and Nightbreed actor Doug Bradley with Russell Cherrington, University of Derby Senior Lecturer.
Russell Cherrington, University of Derby Senior Lecturer in Film and Video Production.
A critically acclaimed re-edit of horror director Clive Barker's cult film Nightbreed - revised by a University of Derby film lecturer - is building fans around the world.
The 1990 film by the British author and director Barker - who also created the Hellraiser film series and a string of successful novels - is about a mysterious mutant tribe with strange powers, and their conflict with human authorities and a serial killer. After the movie's release by 20th Century Fox, Barker and his fans said many of the best parts had been edited out.
Russell Cherrington, University of Derby Senior Lecturer in Film and Video Production, and co-editor Jimmi Johnson, re-edited footage found by Barker's production company, Seraphim Films, to produce a new and extended version of the film entitled Clive Barker's Nightbreed:The Cabal Cut.
The revised film has won critical and horror fans' acclaim since TV presenter Jonathon Ross introduced its UK premiere, at London's Leicester Square last August (2012), and it is now being screened at festivals and special screenings internationally.
On Saturday (May 4) it will receive its US Pacific north-west premiere at the three-day HP Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon. Russell will introduce the film there and answer questions about how he came to be involved in creating it.
The movie will then be seen in:
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July - at the Fantasiafest Montreal, Canada, and the Gwinnett Center International Film Festival in Atlanta, USA
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August - at the Oz Horror Con Film Festival in Melbourne, Australia, and Dragon-Con, Atlanta, USA
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September - at the Mad Monster Party in New Orleans; the Kanazawa Film Festival, Japan; and at the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas
- October - at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival, Los Angeles, and at the 10th Annual Eerie Horror Film Festival in Eerie, Pennsylvania.
Russell - who has received research funding and time to attend screenings from the University of Derby during the film project - said: "To be supported by the University of Derby makes my work possible.
"The School of Art and Design, and the Film and Video production team, support both myself and the Cabal Cut of Nightbreed. Our students get so much back from having a Senior Lecturer with experience of film festivals around the world."
Author Clive Barker has been quoted as saying that he'd "given up hope that this movie would ever find its true form" until Russell's edit came along.
Further news about Clive Barker's Nightbreed:The Cabal Cut and its future screenings can be found at the film's website at www.occupymidian.com
To watch a trailer of the film online go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX0-AlytIXY
For further information about this press release please contact Sean Kirby, University of Derby Press Officer, on 01332 591891 or email: s.kirby@derby.ac.uk
