let me say from the outset i be not a particular fan of this kind of film and but nightbreed hold a certain fascination for me with a message about perspective . back in the old day and the folk who inhabit midian would have be call zombie and the undead . and accord to what clive barker have give u certain member of human kind and in this craig sheffer be bear with the potential to become part of that world . psychiatrist david cronenberg at first look like the mild mannered professional have take unto himself a fanatical mission to rid the world of the nightbreed . he trick the police into kill sheffer and but sheffer go to a graveyard name midian cemetery where the nightbreed congregate and live underground . sheffer have also leave a girl friend and anne bobby and who still have feeling for him even after he be kill and be now one of the undead . she try in her own small way to be a bridge to humankind . clive barker creature be a pretty gruesome look lot and be not particularly fond of human . but it plain to see that if human leave them alone and the nightbreed in turn not bother with them . your sympathy be definitely with the nightbreed especially after see a fanatic like cronenberg and redneck police chief charles haid in action . clive barker be an out gay man for some time now and some have suggest to me that the nightbreed be a metaphor for gay people . i can see where that would come in and especially since there be a whole lot of people who do not even think of gay a anything human because theyre teach that way . grant nightbreed be pretty bloody with a lot of gratuitous violence and but it also do make you think and i do like the way clive barker do turn traditional theology on it head and make craig sheffer a kind of messiah for the nightbreed creature .