God’s an astronaut. Oz is over the rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live.

Nightbreed is the dark fantasy horror film adaptation of Clive Barker's novel, Cabal. It tells the grisly tale of Aaron Boone's manipulation at the hands of his psychopathic, serial-killing therapist who attempts to frame him for his own horrifically sickening crimes. Seeking sanctuary from the police and hostile, pitchfork-waving neanderthals, Boone descends into an underworld community of deformed outcasts. In order to survive, together they fight an onslaught of prejudice, intolerance and a savage attack inflicted on their Midian homestead.

Ocean Software developed two accompanying licensed Nightbreed games in 1990 to coincide with the film; an 'interactive movie' action-adventure hybrid title solely for the 16-bit market and a traditional action-platformer which appeared on 8 as well as 16-bit systems. I evaluate each in separate articles to establish how effectively they dovetail with the source material on which they are based.