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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 3564053" data-attributes="member: 27051">It's good - definitely worth the watch.  It also definitely has some editing issues, but these are not too hard to overlook.  It's based on Clive Barker's novel Cabal and is a pretty solid adaptation of the book.  A little of the mythology is missing, along with a couple of minor character scenes, but this is only to be expected for screen adapations of books.  The movie tries to develop the monsters more thoroughly than in the book, but unfortunately a fair bit of this added development was cut.  There was supposed to be a director's cut forthcoming, but it has seemingly vanished or something like that, so I wouldn't hold my breath.All in all a good movie with a wonderful performance by David Cronenberg (who is as spooky as his own films would suggest!), a great score and a cool look.  I completely agree that it would make a killer setting for a game - I've often thought that it makes for a better WoD setting than the WoD itself, especially if you work in elements from other Barker books like Weaveworld, Imajica and the Books of the Art (which is pretty much how I run my own WoD games, heh heh...)</blockquote>