it time like these i truly wish i be a more avid reader of clive barker literary repertoire and since very few thing feel bad than not be able to fully comprehend a movie of this stunningly visual caliber . base on the novella cabal and the story of nightbreed involve a behemothic amount of lavish and bizarre creature and setting in an underground society of demonic ghoul . a normal guy become link to the strange world and call midian and through his dream and his psychiatrist coerce him into believe he be responsible for a series of gruesome murder of family in recent month . think this to be true and he retreat to midian locate under a rural cemetery where he be reluctantly accept . the shrink and however and be right on homeboy heals with a diabolical scheme to whip out the community of nightbreeds . want so much to love this movie and i be very let down in the long run . i have regretfully not read the story so barker fantasy world and the purpose of it and all these monster be horribly confuse and the premise be painfully uneven . i understand how the final cut be dice to hell and even barker show moderate dislike for the overall product and but i just do not get it . even if it be crucial to read the story and i feel like it should at least be translate to film in a way that it be still comprehensible for those unfamiliar with the literature . if cabal be as convolute a this film than barker really milk a dead concept . couldn not help but feel a bit bored after a while and especially when thing start get increasingly ridiculous ( somewhere around the jail scene i realize just how bored i be ) like a police department fearlessly go to war with midian like it happen every week . no one seem to think the idea of immortal monster be a tad . strange . i do like the visual effect and all that crazy sht that go on in midian and especially that porcupine lady and that big head sob . definitely an epic flick when you consider the massive quantity of effect and convincingly morbid decor . david cronenberg fill his position well a the loony shrink with his cool zipper head potato sack mask and but we all wish he have do some behind the camera work to help save this heap . so and if you have a boner for clive barker material and fully grasp what exactly midian be and why they show the creature during the opening title sequence ( terrible idea . ) and and why these creature reside there and how some punk kid share a telekinetic link to it and you should probably check out nightbreed . i will look for cabal one of these day and hopefully gain some perspective . or maybe i will just forget this travesty completely . until then and this be a poorly construct and fairly tedious mess of a movie . watch hellraiser instead .