For those that might be interested I'd point out that Clive Barker is one of those writers who uses a shared universe. The stories used for a lot of his movies are connected by a lot of the same mythology. For example in the books Harry D'amore the guy Scott Bakula is supposed to be in "Lord Of Illusions" exists in the same world as "Hellraiser" which is based on the story "The Hellbound Heart", and both of those also exist in the same world as Nightbreed. Of course you need to read a lot of his short stories and such to really get the big picture, and it gets deeper than most movies are able to handle, as it is I think a lot of his stuff sort of went over the heads of the audiences at the time. Steven King has a shared universe between his stories which is very deep as well, held together by "The Dark Tower" series however he's had a better track record with movies and such because at the end of the day his stuff is actually pretty shallow and the stories he tells can be conveyed without the hundreds of pages of character analysis he pads them out with. The odd thing is when something unexplained happens in one of their stories, there is probably an explanation for it in another story.
That said Bob's politics are of course intruding in his analysis of Night Breed because Clive Barker is gay and he wants to see something that likely isn't there when you look at the full concept as it was supposed to exist. Clive's Metaphor would be "us homosexuals are monsters and arguably do need to be exterminated but it's going to be tragic to see something so weird and wonderful die out, making reality a more bland place". Basically the creatures of Midian prey on humanity, eat children, and all kinds of sick stuff. Just because you can say see where Rumplestiltskin lives, have a conversation with him, and realize there is a person behind the malevolence, doesn't mean he's any less of a monster or a threat to everyone else. Sort of like how you can talk to Charles Manson or the BTK killer like regular human beings, especially when they are caged or at ease. One of Clive Barker's stories as I remember involved a bunch of monsters travelling the land searching for a new home, demolishing an entire towns to feed and support themselves as they searched, leaving behind ghost towns in the badlands and such... and telling the story of one town that reacted and sort of fought back against them when they saw it coming. Of course in that story (it's been a while) all the Rednecks and such were arseholes too, but then again in horror stories everyone is deeply flawed by way of making it gritty and realistic. I suspect that story is what they based part of "Night Breed" off of as much as his other writings.
Done correctly this would be a story about suck with no real good or fully sympathetic side, just an interesting series of events. The humans are flawed buttheads, but despite how they act they are more or less right about what they are facing. It could be argued that Boone/Cabal and Buttonface might actually be analogies of each other in the story told correctly because after all when Boone becomes a monster he's arguably an even bigger threat than what he originally feared he was, and after the death of the killer he arguably is fully a monster. Of course a lot of that goes beyond the purview of any stories I read. At the end of the day I sort of suspect half the problem was the guys producing the movie felt audiences needed a group to attach themselves to, as opposed to just watching an interesting situation unfold.
See, with the X-men the whole schtick is that humanity is evolving, and that time will solve the entire problem because as time goes on everyone will have super abilities, evening things out, it's just that the slow nature of this evolution means there is a period of time when the evolved humans are greatly outnumbered. The conflict between Magneto and Xavier basically comes down to the fact that humanity's days are numbered, Magneto wants to pretty much oppress humanity in the meantime, while Charles basically believes in making the transition as peaceful as possible, since all you need to do is wait. It's a different kind of situation because mutants and humans are the same species, as opposed to genuinely different ones and there is no predator/prey relationship.
I also think Avatar was a bad enough movie message wise that it shouldn't be compared to anything. In it's efforts to be heavy handed it seemed to forget common sense along the way and the universe it was building and defining on the way to tell that message. Basically in that universe the reason why there is so much effort made to obtain "Unobtainium" is because it's a power source humanity needs to power it's stuff as it travels through the stars. Without that material everything runs out of juice and people die in great numbers as habitats cease to function and everything else. Your dealing with billions or trillions of people spread out across at least multiple solar systems that are dependent on this mineral, whether the corporation is a group of profiteering jerks or not. At the end of the day the entire conflict revolves around a community of a couple hundred aliens living on their equivalent of a burial mount that doubles as a habitat and their convenience. Before the movie has started, the corporation has at least made numerous efforts to negotiate, so it's not like they were just walking in callously and kicking things over despite the implication some people wanted to do just that. Simply put, cooler heads were prevailing. That said at the end of the day your dealing with the temporary discomfort of a couple hundred dudes compared to the fates of untold millions. There is a point where even if the corporate-military complex is run by arseholes that you have to say they are actually doing the right thing. Of course Avatar never bothers to balance the equasion, for example the climax of the movie doesn't end with a scene after the corporate and military dudes running off where they play televised apologies for their failure in the background of families crying as their space stations and such run out of power and they all mournfully suffocate. Yet it could be argued that things like this probably did happen, or were going to happen due to that loss. This makes our hero in that movie a traitor who went native (literally) to become an eco-terrorist responsible for more deaths than Hitler. Had he not gotten involved we wouldn't have a had a movie of course, but the scenario presented would have ended with a bunch of giant cat people getting pissed off but ultimately being alive and re-building somewhere else when the military acted (they only needed that level of force due to the uprising) while humanity continued to obtain and use it's power sources.... basically it's nothing like "Avatar" which is even more mindless than your typical episode of "Captain Planet" despite it's technical accomplishments.