Question about the movie Nightbreed and its Director's Cut

I've been doing some work on my cataloged movies, and I found out that Nightbreed and Nightbreed: The Director's Cut are very explicitly set up as a different works, with a work relationship and a disambiguation notice.

This brings up a larger question, how different does a work need to be to deserve a separate work page? The Director's Cut does not include the theatrical cut, but neither does the director's cut of Brotherhood of the Wolf and that doesn't have a separate work page.

I've fixed all of the other movie related issues that I found, but I'm not sure if the two Nightbreed works should be combined or left as-is. My gut says combine, but there are multiple instances of books being significantly revised years after their original publication to the point where those are separate works in LT and I agree with the separation.

>1 darius52: Nightbreed should not be combined; the theatrical and director's cuts are radically different films.

Agreed with amanda4242: do not combine the two versions! For the same reasons as combining the theatrical and the extended cut of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films would be a bad idea.

My gut must be very different from yours: it prefers splitting over lumping.

The disambiguation says 40 minutes are added or changed. That sounds like a major difference to me. Since the director's cut is 2 hours long, that is a third of the whole!

>3 Petroglyph: I would straight up burst into tears if someone combined Jackson's Lord of the Rings; it took me forever to get those things separated!

I worked to try to separate out the director's cut of Brotherhood of the Wolf from the original movie. Most director's cuts are different and a little longer than the original.

It sounds like movies are just really neglected then, which I guess isn't a surprise. I personally think the differences between the director's cut and the regular version of Nightbreed (and some other movies) are overstated, but if it's different enough to deserve a different version then so be it. I would never compare it to the extended vs. theatrical versions of Lord of the Rings, nobody needs to worry about me wondering if those should be combined!

>6 gilroy: I'm not sure which ones you separated, but my copy is still lumped in with the regular movie. Probably because it isn't named the Director's Cut, it's named the Collector's Edition (which only includes the director's cut, no theatrical version).

>7 darius52: There are a lot of horror movies sold as "unrated director's cut" that are only adding back like three frames they had to remove to get a pg-13 rating for theatrical release and I wouldn't bother separating those, but Nightbreed theatrical is *very* different from the director's cut; just the fact it's nearly twenty minutes longer means it meets LT's criteria for separation.

Meeting LT's criteria for a separate work is fine. I'm not disagreeing with that (as I said). I've just seen both versions multiple times and don't personally think the differences are significant. Other people can disagree and that's fine, I already said that I won't make any changes.