The Human Hate of The Becoming

I have always thought it quite strange, and at first, thought it was made up... pretense. No one seems to want to become a werewolf, or a vampire, okay, I understand zombie, no one wants to become a zombie, but a demon of any shape or form, nope, not gonna have it, but a Skinwalker? Immortality, a life only in the night. See history change, mutate, grow and die over centuries (I've already lived a half of one, how much worse would another half and another half be?)

They cheer on the were wolf killers wielding their silver bullets. They cheer on the Vampire killers with their wooden stakes and crosses. Guns and axes for Zombies, I still understand that. But to destroy what would otherwise live eternal? Who had the right to do that.

When I was a child in Chickasha Oklahoma in the early 1970's I used to watch weekend horror movies. I though Dracula was cool, never the enemy. I thought the wolf-man was "the" man, Frankenstein's monster, a happy go lucky dude. 

The Gargoyles, misunderstood misfits of eternal life. Godzilla, a hero. 

I had "some" friends who agreed. Agreed Michael Myers should keep coming back to Halloween at Haddonfield. Freddy Krueger should get to dream-kill all the messed up teens he wanted.

So, when "Nightbreed" came out, it was an epiphany. Finally a film which celebrates the monsters. Finally a film where the resurrection "within" death was celebration.

Boone encompassed all the times I wanted to "become." To become the monster, a monster, the messianic monster who would save all the other monsters.

And in the "director's cut" when Boone makes Laurie part of the "Breed," sheer joy. A big smile on my face. Fuck the humans, I'll be a monster, please.

"You are no longer "Boone." Now you are now... "Cabal."

One of the greatest movies ever made, in my eyes. Finally a novella, and a movie directed by it's author, which addressed my yearnings, my longings, my desperation at becoming something beyond humankind. The "Breed," the "Tribes of the Moon" embrace you!" Skinwalker, Storm Caller, Night Flyer, Drinker of the Blood of the Living. Mutilator of those who would stand against me.

Fuck all you humans! I now live in the night!