2 Guys And A Chainsaw - A Horror Movie Review Podcast · Todd Kuhns & Craig Higgins

Nightbreed

July 10, 2025·1 hr 3 min·5 clips

Nightbreed comes to the show by way of a listener request and a patron poll. It wins decisively. Todd says Harry, a sports podcaster and author, first asked for it, and the votes finished the job. Neither host had seen it before, so the conversation starts with a clean, slightly surprised energy. They both remember the movie hanging around in the video-store era. It always seemed like a major Clive Barker title in the background. Once they start pulling it apart, the film’s history turns out to be bigger than either of them expected. Barker had been given around $11 million here after working with only a couple million on Hellraiser, and the hosts keep circling back to how much of that money shows up on screen. The makeup work becomes a big topic. So does the stop-motion. They appreciate the ambition of the creature design, even when the movie begins to feel like a series of freak-show snapshots rather than a fully lived-in world. Midian is the center of that complaint. The hosts note that it is often treated like a town, but really plays more like a graveyard with a huge underground lair. It looks impressive. It also feels strangely like a jail. That tension becomes the core of their critique. They follow Boone’s arc, the resurrection, and the girlfriend’s trip into Midian. Then they get stuck on the odd sun-sensitive coyote-elf transformation and the movie’s messy logic. They even wonder what the book does with all of this. The episode closes by sending listeners toward the show’s site, Patreon, newsletter, and weekly Zoom hangout, with an open invitation to keep the Barker conversation going and keep thinking about the movie’s tangled legacy.

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A candid Nightbreed discussion that leans into its makeup-heavy craft and notes the story's stubborn problems.

The discussion reaches Nightbreed through a patron poll that put it over the top, and the hosts admit they had somehow never seen it, even though it has been in front of them for years.

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For when you want Nightbreed talk, monster makeup, and two hosts openly wrestling with the movie.

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