Naughty aka Juli Norwood’s review published on Letterboxd:
#19 of 31 - HOOPTOBER 5.0 : We Don’t Need A Stretcher In There We Need A Mop
Clive Barker has a habit of dropping his audience straight into the meat grinder! Forget the concept of acclimation.. forget asking audiences to suspend disbelief! He and his films are far beyond that! You enter his world at your own risk! For me Barker's films are a boom or bust proposition!
Hellraiser for example rocked my world! Original, distinctive, as mind bending as it was unparalleled in the history of horror! Truly the stuff of nightmares, grotesque creatures that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt there is a fate far worse than death!
Whereas Nightbreed is a lightweight, humans and monsters alike clichéd caricatures at best! At worst we've seen it all before and unfortunately for Mr. Barker done better! Extremely disappointed that the monstrous creatures that drew us to the film in the first place were so severely underused!