22 Movies With the Dark, Dreamy Vibes of Netflix’s The Sandman

It begins with a nightmare: Aaron Boone (Craig Sheffer) desires of Midian, a world of cackling and cavorting monsters—like some form of demonic carnival, full with a few completely sick cartwheels. Caught up within the schemes of a serial killer, Boone quickly discovers that the psychedelic underground (under-cemetery, technically) metropolis is certainly very actual, and it’s inhabited by creatures as diversified as these Boone thought he’d imagined. In the very best Clive Barker type, the residents of Midian is perhaps monstrous, however they aren’t monsters; they’ve created a secure house in a world that fears them, and Boone discovers, at first to his horror, that he has much more in frequent with them than he ever dreamed. Even when characters aren’t actually sleeping, all the things on this underrated queer allegory operates by means of a darkish dream logic.

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