i be peeve that the best make up academy award go to dick tracy and a horrible film with horrible make up . the nightbreed ( base on the good title cabal novella ) look terrific and the acting be excellent and david chroneburg make for a truly creepy and terrific antagonist . the plot focus on aaron boone and who have recur nightmare about a society of monster live under a cemetery . be he make it up or be they real and call to him . his pyschologist ( chroneburg ) convince him he a murderer and a slayer of family . troubled and suicidal and boone seek refuge in midian but the monster do not want him at first . he be also track by his girlfriend and lori who refuse to give up on him even after he die and come back cold and monstrous . but decker isn not about to let boone continue on . he raise the local on an all out assault on midian and like a holy war in god name lead by the devil . barker theme of misunderstood monster may come from his experience a a homosexual male and but they be always strong and honest . nightbreed turn the genre on it head . the monster be just try to survive and want to be leave alone and but man be hunt them . a 20 plus minute longer cut be originally submit by barker and but the studio chop it into this fractured masterpiece . barker be hard at work try to locate the missing footage for a director cut release . until then and this version will have to do .