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| Ashberry | |
| Aliases: | Walden Ashberry Reverend Ashberry |
| Continuity: | Nightbreed |
| Notability: | Antagonist |
| Type: | Clergy |
| Occupation: | Reverend |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Night Breed |
| Location: | Shere Neck, Alberta, Canada |
| Associations: | None |
| Relatives: | Unknown |
| Status: | Alive |
| First: | Cabal |
| Actor: | Malcolm Smith |
Ashberry is a fictional member of the clergy and a secondary antagonist featured in the 1988 novel Cabal, which was adapted into a feature film in 1990 called Nightbreed. He was played by actor Malcolm Smith in the film.
Biography[]
Ashberry was a man in his apparent mid-thirties during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was a member of the clergy from the Canadian town of Shere Neck in the province of Alberta, where he held the title of Reverend.
Though a man of the cloth, Reverend Ashberry was not without his vices. He was an alcoholic and was once thrown into the drunk tank by Captain J.W. Eigerman of the Shere Neck Police Department.
When Captain Eigerman decided to mount a massive armed offensive against the non-human Night Breed of Midian, he brought Reverend Ashberry with him. Governed by his own dementia, Ashberry followed Eigerman's lead, until he noticed the genocidal police captain turning his weapons on children. Ashberry turned against Eigerman and then found his way down into the bowels of Midian where he encountered the Night Breed's god, Baphomet. Baphomet annointed Reverend Ashberry with his touch, which transformed him into one of the Night Breed. Driven into even deeper psychosis, Ashberry found a new sense of purpose - the utter eradication of the Tribes of the Moon. [1][2]
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Ashberry was created by author Clive Barker.
- Ashberry's motivations seem to be governed by his mental state. During the raid on Midian, Ashberry was committed towards the eradication of the Night Breed, but upon being transformed by Baphomet, came to regard the new Night Breed as the Second Coming.
- Ashberry appeared in the novel Cabal, but retained his physical humanity. It is only in the Nightbreed film that he is transformed by Baphomet.
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- ↑ Cabal (novel), Written by Clive Barker (1988).
- ↑ Nightbreed, Directed & written by Clive Barker (1990). 2014 Director's cut.