It begins with a nightmare: Aaron Boone (Craig Sheffer) dreams of Midian, a world of cackling and cavorting monsters—like some sort of demonic carnival, complete with a couple of absolutely sick cartwheels. Caught up in the schemes of a serial killer, Boone soon discovers that the psychedelic underground (under-cemetery, technically) city is indeed very real, and it’s inhabited by creatures as varied as those Boone thought he’d imagined. In the best Clive Barker style, the residents of Midian might be monstrous, but they aren’t monsters; they’ve created a safe space in a world that fears them, and Boone discovers, at first to his horror, that he has a lot more in common with them than he ever dreamed. Even when characters aren’t literally sleeping, everything in this underrated queer allegory operates by way of a dark dream logic.
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