Bradley as Dirk Lylesberg, a Nightbreed who serves as their acolyte and lawgiver. Catherine Chevalier as Rachel, a shapeshifting Nightbreed that cannot deal with sunlight. Bob Sessions as Pettine Malcolm Smith as Father Ashberry/Ashbury, a drunken priest who allies with Decker. Oliver Parker as Peloquin, a Nightbreed that is responsible for biting Aaron. Debora Weston as Sheryl Ann, a woman that Lori befriends. Nicholas Vince as Kinski, a Nightbreed with a crescent moon-shaped head. Simon Bamford as Ohnaka, a tattooed member of the Nightbreed. Kim Robertson and Nina Robertson as Babette, the Nightbreed daughter of Rachel who has the same traits as her. Christine McCorkindale as Shuna Sassi, a Nightbreed with an animalistic face that is covered in quills. Tony Bluto as Leroy Gomm, an overweight Nightbreed who has retractable tentacles coming out of his stomach. Bernard Henry as Baphomet, a demon who is the deity of the Nightbreed Themes and interpretations Nightbreed has been characterized as containing themes related to queerness and the LGBT community. In 1997, author Harry M. Benshoff called it, "One of the first horror films to make an explicit connection between monsters and the activist politics of the queer community". Filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky called Nightbreed "the first truly gay horror fantasy epic", explaining how the unconsummated relationship between doctor and patient is in his view the central theme. In 2015, Tyler Coates of Decider called Jodorowsky's interpretation of the characters' relationship as being "only the tip of the iceberg and, I'd argue, a red herring"; Coates focuses instead on the presence of queer subtext "blatantly seen in the Nightbreed's culture", writing that, "Because normalcy is subjective and based solely on how the majority defines it, it's important to establish mini-societies and cultures with people like you." In 2019, Trace Thurman of Bloody Disgusting wrote that the Nightbreed as depicted in the film "represent queerness, or any fill-in-the-blank 'Other' you can think of." Noting that, beyond writer-director Clive Barker being "one of the most famous queer horror artists of our time [...] The narrative itself is filled to the brim with queerness and serves as an allegory for intolerance. Can anyone watch Nightbreed and not automatically associate the titular creatures with queer people? They've been outcast by society and are deemed as dangerous by the 'normal' people. The climax of the film culminates in an assault on the Nightbreed's home base of Midian as the 'normies'