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Nightbreed, also commonly known as Clive Barker's Nightbreed, is a film directed by Clive Barker, and based on his 1988 novella Cabal.

It is the story of a mental patient, named Aaron Boone, who has dreams of a city full of monsters and has fears that he may in fact be the true identity of the masked local serial killer Buttonface. Due to these fears and dreams, his psychotherapist Dr Phillip Decker convinces him to turn himself into the police, but before he can do this Boone is hit by a truck and sent to the hospital.

There, he encounters a madman who tells Boone how to get to the city in his dreams, before the madman tears his face off and is subdued by hospital staff.

Desperate for answers, Boone makes his way to a massive graveyard out in the middle of nowhere, and heads deep within its secret underground to discover that Midian, the city of monsters, is a real place. Lead by two of its citizens, the monsters accept him, and tell him that he isn't truly a murderer (as he believes).

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