So after watching this film I am still left a little confused. We're the Nightbreed one race or a collection of various monsters? Why didn't Boone turn into a thing like the one that bit him? Nobody found it odd that there was a giant abandoned cemetary just off the road in Canada?
I did like the movie but it seems like I am missing something.
-Ah, here it is. "Breach Hull - All Die." Even had it underlined.
I think the concept is that there are certain among us who can't be killed (at least not in many of the traditional ways)
There's pretty much no way to tell who they are until something violent happens to them and they don't die - that's why so many of them are so grotesque.
Rachel spells it out for you in the film...
The last survivors of the great tribes.
[Lori: Ok, tribes of what?"]
We're shapeshifters, freaks, remains of races your tribe have almost driven to extinction.
[Lori: So your not immortal?"]
Far from it. The sun can kill some of us, like Babette. Others can be shot down. Others can survive that because they have gone beyond death.
[Lori: "This is too weird"]
To be able to fly? To be smoke, or a wolf? To know the night and live in it forever. That's not so bad. You call us monsters, but when you dream, you dream of flying, and changing, and living without death. You envy us, and what you envy...
[Lori: "We destroy"]
[Lori: I've gotta find him."]
He's beyond your help. He's down in the Tabernacle with Baphomet.
[Lori "Who's that?"]
The Baptizer, the one who called us here and saved us from our enemies.
They made it pretty clear in the directors cut that they were a collection of monsters all brought together by that one monster, Baphomet, who brought them all together.
Why didn't Boone turn into a thing like the one that bit him?
Nobody found it odd that there was a giant abandoned cemetary just off the road in Canada?
Nobody found it odd that there was a giant abandoned cemetary just off the road in Canada?
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There are cemeteries all over the place. Why would anyone find this one particularly odd?
As it shown in the movie, it's very story-bookesque, but there's actually a line about it
"- Who's buried in Midian. - Dead folk. Prospectors come from all over and got buried up there." While that doesn't really make sense, the 'dead folk' kinda does. I'm mean at some point or another you've likely seen an odd cemetery, it's not like you actually did anything about it, or that there is something to do. As well respect for burial ground is pretty universal.
It's a real grave yard that actually exists. How is it "story bookesque?"
First, that line should be "came" past tense.
What doesn't make sense about that? The story takes place around Calgary Alberta, which has a LONG mining history.
I'm not sure what you're actually getting at here, anyway.
I'm pretty sure the exterior shots(the wall and the modified gate) are a real graveyard. Could be wrong though. The interiors and some of the exterior shots are pretty clearly sets, given the way they're shot.
It's a direct quote from the movie, the scene where Decker is at the kooky gas station, hence me mentioning it's a line and putting it in parentheses. Grammar lessons are welcome though. I'm sure I could use them.
Actually, it's noted as taking place somewhere North of Athabasca which while I don't know about the mining is a few hundred miles in the wrong direction for civilization from Calgary.
Which is kind of the thing because miners, or for that matter anybody else, aren't known for building elaborate graveyards where no one will see or visit them.
Of course prospectors aren't really known for their funeral arrangements, much like settlers and other kinds of professions generally defined by traveling as well as a lack of resources to call on, and even if were Calgary based, Calgary, like most of Western North America, simply isn't that old as far as Western civilization is concerned
Even if by some freak chance I never head of a couple of plagues, and World War battles somehow going down in the vicinity there's no way the nightbreed's necropolis would have been not only feasible for the region but long fallen into ruin by the time of the movie. (That is, I would say the Sedlec Ossuary is like something out of a story book, but it would be downright bizarre to find it outside Yellowknife.)
I'm pretty sure the exterior shots(the wall and the modified gate) are a real graveyard. Could be wrong though. The interiors and some of the exterior shots are pretty clearly sets, given the way they're shot.
You put it in quotes. Parentheses are brackets.
But the way the line is delivered implies that they USED to go to the graveyard, not that miners are still coming to the graveyard to be buried. It's pretty clear that nobody gets buried there anymore. Miners or otherwise. Hence why it says "got buried" further along the quote.
But the point remains, the line should have been in the past tense. "Come" should have been "came."
No. The movie takes place in Alberta. The book is another matter, but the movie clearly takes place in Alberta. They even refer to the fact a few times. For example right at the beginning of the film, Lori tells Boone they should get out of Calgary for a few days.
Decker refers to the murders all occurring with driving distance of Calgary. Inspector Joyce is introduced as being part of the Calgary PD. It definitely takes place in and around Calgary.
But yes, Athabasca is also mining country.
Oh really?
So what are you saying? That the Nightbreed built the graveyard when Baphomet arrived? What seems more likely is that the graveyard is built on rock(considering it's in Alberta), which was harder to dig through than was worth, so mausoleums were built. Not unlike the reason there are so many mausoleums in New Orleans is because if you dig more than a couple feet down the hole quickly fills with water.
Isn't as old as what, exactly? Are you again suggesting that Baphomet and the Nightbreed built the graveyard when they arrived?
And "isn't that old" is a pretty relative term. They have been mining in Alberta for well over 100 years, and I'm pretty sure the Nightbreed haven't been in Midian for 100 plus years.
Also I have established that the movie takes place in Alberta. There is no question anymore.
What in the blue hell are you talking about? No battles during either world war occurred anywhere in Canada.
Your inability to believe it doesn't change the fact that it is there within the story and we have no reason to believe the entire thing was built by the Nightbreed.
Nightbreed are people, so why should it be, we and they should get along so awfully?
Supernatural beings, some of whom (like Boone) are undead. Each one is different, their forms and abilities probably dictated by personality quirks or their psychological make up more so than any common racial traits.
They have an affinity for the Night (hence their name); so much so that some have a fatal vulnerability to sunlight.
They all have their origin in the dark god Baphomet; it is his blood (also called "The Balm" in the book Cabal) that makes them what they are. It is the balm that gets passed from Peloquin (the reddish one with all the dreadlock-like protrusions) to Boone when he bites him in the cemetery, and the same substance boiling in the bowl during the baptism ceremony.