A poll of sorts.

[seanan_mcguire]

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.

Comments

[rialian.livejournal.com]

===...seen. SEEN the movie. Arg. Autocorrect is out to rewrite the world....

[thornsilver]

Both. But a very long time ago.

[wyldirishtric.livejournal.com]

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

[vincentursus.livejournal.com]

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

[amethyst-clan.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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

[caersidi.livejournal.com]

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.

[philip harris (from livejournal.com)]

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

[sylphon.livejournal.com]

To be fair, The Wall gives lots of people nightmares, it's not a horror movie but the themes are horrific and they throw in such wacky animation that it lingers in the back of your mind for decades.

Doesn't keep me from loving the movie, but I do know others that feel as you do, it caused them nightmares.

[dragoness-e.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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

[mel-redcap.livejournal.com]

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]

I have done both, on more than one occasion.

[ravenrose.livejournal.com]

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

[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

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

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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

[phantom_wolfboy]

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.

[merovin.livejournal.com]

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.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

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.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

God is an astronaut, Oz is over the rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters go.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Could you send me an email through my website, do you think?

[mpoetess.livejournal.com]

Of course. Confirming that vote, or just so you'll have my e-mail address?

(For the record, I'm in the same "it's been years and years" camp as a lot of other here, though.)

[qnofhrt.livejournal.com]

Wow - I thought I was the only one who couldn't handle The Wall.

Put me in the no on both accounts category and the no horror category in general. I read It by Steven King when it came out (I was working in a bookstore at the time) and only got about half-way through. Just not my genre, although I did read the Newsflesh trilogy.

[sheila okeefe (from livejournal.com)]

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