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Release year: 1990

Storyline

A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer is looking for a patsy.

Top credits

Directors

Clive Barker

Writers

Clive Barker

Cast

Craig Sheffer — Aaron Boone, Cabal
David Cronenberg — Dr. Philip K. Decker
Anne Bobby — Lori Winston
Charles Haid — Captain Eigerman

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Did you know

• Though promised a cleaned-up version of the extended VHS work-print dubbed "The Cabal Cut" in July 2014, fans were delighted when Scream Factory announced that the original film was found, restored at 4K and re-cut under Clive Barker's supervision, ending a 24-year-long plea for the "Directors Cut" to be released, in two packages in Oct. 2014.

• Clive Barker has gone on record as saying that he felt that distributor Fox and financiers Morgan Creek Productions never understood the film and simply cut the story to pieces so it would fit what their idea of the picture should have been.

• In a tie-in documentary, Clive Barker relates that the producers expressed a concern that "The monsters are the good guys." Barker replied, "That's the point."