Are you ready to return to Midian? Deadline reports that Syfy, writer Josh Stolberg (Jigsaw, Piranha) and Morgan Creek Entertainment are working together to bring Clive Barker’s Nightbreed back to life as a television series. Excited? So is Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Lord of Illusions) !“This story has been near to my heart for many years. I’m at beyond thrilled that SyFy and UCP are taking this journey with us, and I cannot wait to see it brought to life on the screen.”

David Robinson, President of Morgan Creek Entertainment Group said,

“There has never been a more relevant time for us to turn to one of the genre’s great cult classics from our movie library to impact the national conversation with bold, compelling and unconventional storytelling [.] The team at Morgan Creek is very excited to partner with Clive Barker, Syfy and Universal Cable Productions on Nightbreed for a unique, trenchant and no-holds-barred exploration of race relations in today’s society. As a sophisticated twist on the classic graphic novel form, Nightbreed pits ‘Humans’ against persecuted monsters, using metaphor and parable to take on bias and prejudice with real-world consequences.“

The original Nightbreed (1990) was an adaptation of Barker’s 1988 novella Cabal. Billed at the time as “The Star Wars of Horror Films”, Nightbreed was an ambitious second film for director Clive Barker. A visually stunning blend of horror and epic fantasy, the film told the story of Midian, a secret subterranean city of monsters. But after a disastrously mishandled marketing campaign and a studio edit that cut out key plot points, the film was not well received by critics or audiences. By the end of its theatrical run Nightbreed was a box office bomb, earning only 8 million, which was way less than its reported 11 million budget.

But as all you ghouls know it takes more than that to kill a good monster movie. Since its release Nightbreed has gone on to have a rich second life as a cult classic. You can catch the director’s cut blu-ray and dvd for more of that monstery goodness. We’ll keep you posted as more news develops.