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The Midnight Meat Train (2008)

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Reviews Counted:27

Fresh:19

Rotten:8

Average Rating:6.2/10

Consensus: A creative and energetic adaptation of a Clive Barker short story, with enough scares and thrills to be a potential cult classic.

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Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sequences of strong bloody gruesome violence, grisly images involving nudity, sexual content and language

Runtime: 1 hr. 38 min.

Genre: Mystery & Suspense, Drama, Horror

Theatrical Release: Aug 14, 2008 Wide

Box Office: $34.4k

Synopsis: A New York photographer hunts down a serial killer. Based on Clive Barker's short story "Midnight Meat Train" A New York photographer hunts down a serial killer. Based on Clive Barker's short story "Midnight Meat Train" [More]

Starring: Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, Vinnie Jones

Starring: Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, Vinnie Jones, Roger Bart, Tony Curran, Barbara Eve Harris, Ted Raimi, Stephanie Mace, Nora, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, Dan Callahan, Donnie Smith, Peter Jacobson

Director: Ryuhei Kitamura

Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Screenwriter: Jeff Buhler
Producer: Tom Rosenberg , Gary Lucchesi , Richard Wright , Eric Reid , Jorge Saralegui
Studio: Lionsgate Films

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So thoroughly coated in over-the-top blood and guts that even veteran genre fans will likely be astounded.

Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | comment Comment
Mar 25, 2010
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

It's excessively and imaginatively gory, presented in a straightforward manner, but with the slightest hint of a wink.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
Mar 20, 2009
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Midnight Meat Train may be no classic of the genre, but it's certainly a better and more interesting film than most of what passes for horror movies these days.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
Feb 21, 2009
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Not at all Butchered.

Full Review Source: Horror.com | comment Comment
Feb 18, 2009
Staci Layne Wilson
Staci Layne Wilson
Horror.com

Midnight Meat Train brings an unabashed brutality to the horror genre.

Full Review Source: What Would Toto Watch? | comment Comment
Feb 14, 2009
Christian Toto
Christian Toto
What Would Toto Watch?

... remarkably effective and, when it finally arrives at the end of the line, admirably simple.

Full Review Source: Seanax.com | comment Comment
Feb 11, 2009
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seanax.com

This is the best Clive Barker-inspired movie in a long, long time -- probably since "Hellraiser III" in 1992.

Full Review Source: ESplatter | comment Comment
Feb 9, 2009
Lucius Gore
Lucius Gore
ESplatter

Goes full speed on ultra-gory rails before slamming to an abrupt stop.

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
Jan 28, 2009
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

while skimpy on characterization and plot, it should please gorehounds and Barker fans alike

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
Jan 3, 2009
Keith Breese
Keith Breese
Filmcritic.com

Japanese director Ryuhei Kitamura, who kicked off his career with 2000's impressive micro-budget zombie flick Versus, delivers plenty of stylish visuals and an admirably unrestrained attitude to gore.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
Oct 31, 2008
Phelim O'Neill
Phelim O'Neill
Guardian [UK]

The film hurtles towards the final ‘revelation moment’ like runaway train. If only it had stopped to take on board some of Barker’s heavy mythical dread.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
Oct 30, 2008
Nigel Floyd
Nigel Floyd
Time Out

Unfairly buried by its distributors in the US, this film takes what could have been a drab set-up and gives it some real bravado, energy and creativity.

Full Review Source: Film4 | comment Comment
Oct 30, 2008
Jim Hall
Jim Hall
Film4

The Midnight Meat Train is destined for cult status as an minor horror gem.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
Oct 30, 2008
Rob Daniel
Rob Daniel
Sky Movies

a stylishly bloody descent into madness, murder and Hell itself.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
Oct 24, 2008
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Eye for Film

Midnight Meat Train can best be described as splatter noir. It's Fritz Lang by way of an abattoir.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
Oct 16, 2008
Bill Gibron
Bill Gibron
PopMatters

Destined to be a cult classic as a vicious, brilliant, and disgusting horror film...

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
Oct 6, 2008
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Japanese cult director Ryuhei Kitamura maintains impressive control of the story, ratcheting up tension toward well-prepared and startling bursts of terror.

Full Review Source: MTV | comment Comment
Sep 26, 2008
Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder
MTV

This sharp and brutal little yarn about a photographer who stumbles across a serial killer is a fan film if every there was one -- and only fans will be able to stomach it.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
Aug 22, 2008
Tim Cogshell
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine

We hate to side with the big bad studio, but The Midnight Meat Train -- despite a great title -- really does stink like month-old human flesh.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment 2 Comments
Aug 11, 2008
Chris Willman
Chris Willman
Entertainment Weekly
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More interesting than most of the torture-porn or Asian-inspired thrillers that make it to theaters these days, but its tired combination of incongruously pretty fashion-mag photography and outrageously gruesome digital effects is dead on arrival.

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
Aug 8, 2008
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
 
 
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