Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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A poll of sorts.

Who here has read Cabal, by Clive Barker, or seen the movie based on the book (which was titled Nightbreed)?

Comment amnesty is on, this is a fact-finding expedition.
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wyldirishtric

July 1 2013, 11:27:44 UTC 4 years ago

I've seen the movie, but I haven't read the novel.

vincentursus

July 1 2013, 11:32:55 UTC 4 years ago

I have read the book, I have not seen the movie. I have heard filkertom's song.

amethyst_clan

July 1 2013, 11:52:03 UTC 4 years ago

It's one of our favorite movies! :D And we read the book, but it was yeeeeeeeeeeeeears ago, so we don't remember much about it.

shanejayell

July 1 2013, 12:02:36 UTC 4 years ago

Read the book, saw the movie a VERY long time ago. Barely remember it.

caersidi

July 1 2013, 12:08:20 UTC 4 years ago

Both - plus an American woman who was staying with me at the time was a pal of Clive B and he gave her a bit part in the film as one of the Nightbreed. So got daily set reports which was fun.

Thought Nightbreed was amazing and one of those films often overlooked.

SolitaryMindset

July 1 2013, 12:53:13 UTC 4 years ago

Cabal was the second horror novel I ever read and I still own Nightbreed.

dragoness_e

July 1 2013, 13:06:56 UTC 4 years ago

I have. Read it, own it somewhere, own a worn VHS tape of the movie, which mostly follows the book. Except for a few reversals and changes that completely change the ending. ;-)

David Cronenberg was a really good, really scary serial-killer psychiatrist, long before Hannibal Lechter was popular.

kittylady

July 1 2013, 13:12:55 UTC 4 years ago

Nightbreed was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Haven't seen it in years.

mel_redcap

July 1 2013, 14:06:17 UTC 4 years ago

Have read it (a long time ago). Probably own it, but if so it's in the depths of the Box Maze. Don't remember much about it, don't think I've seen the movie, but I've definitely at least seen trailers for it because I have some visual memories popping up here. ;)

deakat

July 1 2013, 14:17:20 UTC 4 years ago

I have done both, on more than one occasion.

ravenrose

July 1 2013, 14:47:59 UTC 4 years ago

Read the book and saw/loved the movie...

rono_60103

July 1 2013, 14:52:26 UTC 4 years ago

Not read or seen - but I'm not much of a horror fan.

valarltd

July 1 2013, 14:59:50 UTC 4 years ago

Both. I tend to think the movie is better.
I'm not a Clive Barker fan as much as I keep trying. He and Dean Koontz do nothing for me. But I gamely give them each a read about once a year or so, trying new books.

dewline

July 1 2013, 15:19:20 UTC 4 years ago

Not as yet for either book or movie. Good of you to raise the question.

phantom_wolfboy

July 1 2013, 15:21:19 UTC 4 years ago

Having seen the movie, I had no urge to ever read the book. Or, indeed, any other book, ever again. It was that bad. It was possibly the stupidest horror movie I ever saw; though if you give me time I might be able to come up with a better candidate.

For a good Clive Barker-based movie, catch Candy Man--but only the first one.

seanan_mcguire

July 1 2013, 16:16:52 UTC 4 years ago

That's largely on the studio, sadly, and not the movie itself; if you read the book, you can see the skeleton of the movie's intent in what made it to the screen. I'm hoping the Cabal cut will fix a lot of that.

merovin

July 1 2013, 15:49:41 UTC 4 years ago

I read the book years ago, but never saw the movie. I actually thought about the book earlier this year and looked for it on Audible. Alas, it's not available in audio.

Sheila OKeefe

July 1 2013, 18:30:09 UTC 4 years ago

Nope, haven't read it nor did I see the movie.

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porpentine

July 1 2013, 19:05:20 UTC 4 years ago

Both

beckyh2112

July 1 2013, 19:09:50 UTC 4 years ago

I've seen Nightbreed.

Chad Saxelid

July 1 2013, 20:15:08 UTC 4 years ago

I read Cabal many, many years ago (when it was first released in hardcover and I was a "rabid" fan of Clive Barker) and thought it was okay. As with a great many of Barker's series stories, the proposed follow-up never seemed to arrive. Ditto the third book of The Art (which is supposed to follow The Great and Secret Show and Everville.)

As far as Nightbreed goes. I saw it once, on its opening weekend, and thought it was middling, at best. If Barker's original cut of the film is ever released, I would be willing to watch it, but I've never felt compelled to revisit the film in its current version.

I collected the Nightbreed comic book series, but don't remember what that was like, at all.

alumiere

July 1 2013, 20:46:03 UTC 4 years ago

Read it, not sure about the movie (maybe but it would have been ages ago).

jadis17

July 1 2013, 20:47:44 UTC 4 years ago

I have seen the movie many years ago and recall liking it.

mephron

July 1 2013, 21:00:18 UTC 4 years ago

Read it, used to own it (on videotape!). WHile I don't go in for most of the Clive Barker oeveur, that story is amazing.

Brendan Coffey

July 1 2013, 21:19:40 UTC 4 years ago

I saw Nightbreed first years ago, and Have always been a hge fan. As a kid, I really wanted to explore more deeply that world and the mechanics thereof.
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