#Nicholas vince

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Nicholas Vince enjoying a drink as Chatterer behind the scenes of Hellraiser (1987)

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Pinhead, Butterball, and Chatterer from Clive Barker's Hellraiser (1987)

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I've been rediscovering my love for Clive Barker this week due to finally managing to see The Ultimate Cabal Cut of Nightbreed (some kind soul has uploaded it to YouTube) and then re-reading Cabal, the book it was based on.

Cabal is amongst my favourite books ever written (though as a bibliophile that list is extremely long!) and one of my favourite movies. I originally saw it in the early 90s when I was probably far too young, and read the book not long after.

I backed the Occupy Midian campaign in 2012 when the lost footage was being searched for and reintegrated into the movie, and I attended a screening of one of the early edits where I met Nicholas Vince and Simon Bamford (Kinski and Ohnaka in Nightbreed, but better known as two of the Cenobites from Hellraiser). This led to the eventual DVD/Blu-ray release of The Directors Cut (which I got a physical copy of) and then The Ultimate Cabal Cut (which I didn’t, and which I haven't seen until now).

It's an oversimplification to call Barker's work horror, especially in Cabal/Nightbreed - this was the mistake the production company made when originally editing and marketing it.

Clive Barker's vision shows us the beauty of the weird, the macabre, the abnormal, and the supernatural, and the true horror in his work comes from the "normal".

In Cabal/Nightbreed his monsters are not evil, they're simply different - undead, mutants and supernatural beings, a metaphor for anyone who has ever felt othered by society. Midian is a place where they can live safely with no fear or judgement. The evil characters are "naturals", humans who hate and fear the monsters for being different even though they pose no threat, and ultimately try to destroy them.

As a member of the LGBT community it's easy to see where Barker's motivation for this metaphor came from, but it could equally apply to just about anyone who feels like they don't fit in. Certainly as a lonely, bullied, weird child when I first read/saw it, who then grew up into a reasonably weird adult, I'd love for the monsters to come and take me away to Midian.

Anyone seeing this who isn't familiar with the book/movie, I'd urge you to look them up, as well as others by Barker. More of my favourites by him are Imajica, Abarat and of course The Hellbound Heart, filmed as Hellraiser. The Forbidden from short story anthology The Books of Blood was also filmed as Candyman.

Below I've linked The Cabal Cut of Nightbreed. Even if you know and love the original theatrical release I'd still urge you to watch this (quick as you can in case its removed due to copyright!).

In addition to doubling the movie length from 1 hour 40 mins to 3 hours 20 mins, a number of the actors voices have been re-recorded as they were overdubbed in the theatrical version for some reason, notably those of Rachel, and Lylesberg, played by Doug Bradley. It was a crime to remove that man's beautiful voice and wonderful to hear it back where its meant to be.

Also, rather than being a standard horror movie heroine who seems to be there only to scream and be rescued, in this version Lori comes across as much stronger and more well-rounded character.

As it says in the opening text, although much of the footage was of good quality there are some sections where all they had available were degraded VHS tapes, some of which were without audio. This means the editing is also a little clunky in places. However the makers of this version wanted to include everything they possibly could in order to bring it in line with the original shooting script and Clive Barker's epic vision for the piece.

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Nightbreed (1990)

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NIGHTBREED (1990)

Director - Clive Barker, Cinematography - Robin Vidgeon

"Everything is true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live... And you came to die."

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Up next on my Spooktober Filmfest...Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #Hellraiser #hellraiser2 #HellboundHellraiserII #clivebarker #pinhead #cenobites #dougbradley #ClareHiggins #AshleyLaurence #SeanChapman #imogenboorman #KennethCranham #williamhope #barbiewilde #SimonBamford #nicholasvince #80s #vintage #vhs #spooktober #halloween #october

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The Hellraiser legends! https://www.instagram.com/p/C42-muHLDhZ/ For those not familiar with Hellraiser (or familiar with it, but don't know, who those guys are and why they are in my blog) - that be : Pinhead, Kirsty, female cenobite, Chatterer, Butterball and the guy, who imagined the plot. Source of my inspiration in one image. I visit IG very rarely, and it is always a treat to find one of those posts. :)

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Grace Kirby & Nicholas Vince on the set of Hellraiser (1986)

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Ashley Laurence and Nicholas Vince behind the scenes of Hellraiser

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Chatterer - Hellraiser (1987)

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Nicholas Vince and Grace Kirby behind the scenes of Hellraiser (1987) as the Female Cenobite and Chatterer

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HE SEES YOU WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING Caroline Williams stars in Charlie Steeds' Xmas slasher - now with a trailer

He Sees You When You’re Sleeping is a 2024 American slasher horror film about a serial killer who dresses as Santa Claus. Caroline Williams (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2) has joined the cast of He Sees You When You’re Sleeping, a Christmas slasher slated to be released this holiday season by The Horror Collective. A young man’s Christmas homecoming turns into a nightmare as a killer in a Santa suit…

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Hellraiser (1987)

Summary: When Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence) solves a mysterious puzzle box, she inadvertently summons the Cenobites, a group of sadomasochistic beings.

Dated (not in good way) with uneven performances, but has decent gore effects and imposing Doug Bradley.

Rating: 2.25/5

Photo credit: Eventive

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my Spooktober Filmfest...Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #Hellraiser #hellraiser2 #HellboundHellraiserII #clivebarker #pinhead #cenobites #dougbradley #ClareHiggins #AshleyLaurence #SeanChapman #imogenboorman #KennethCranham #williamhope #barbiewilde #SimonBamford #nicholasvince #80s #vintage #vhs #spooktober #halloween #october

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Give me three items and a character and I'll write you a story or three

Based on a fun little writing exercise I worked through with a client who was having creativity issues the other day.