Clive Barker directs this fantasy horror starring Craig Sheffer and David Cronenberg. Aaron Boone (Sheffer) is a young man who has visions of gory murders. He visits psychotherapist Dr.

Phillip Decker (Cronenberg) who convinces him he's a serial killer. Decker has Boone arrested for the murders but the latter escapes custody and makes his way to a mythical Canadian necropolis called Midian, occupied by the shapeshifting Nightbreed. His girlfriend follows, pursued by Decker who is, in fact, the killer of Boone's visions...