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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.
Before flying off the rails in the final curve, The Midnight Meat Train rolls quite smoothly as a mid-'80s-style psycho-killer thriller a la The Hitcher.
this devilishly ambiguous thriller leaves viewers to decide whether to take the conventional or the less-traveled tunnel through its narrative network - and the results are a stylishly bloody descent into madness, murder and hell itself.
So thoroughly coated in over-the-top blood and guts that even veteran genre fans will likely be astounded.
It's excessively and imaginatively gory, presented in a straightforward manner, but with the slightest hint of a wink.
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.
Midnight Meat Train brings an unabashed brutality to the horror genre.
... remarkably effective and, when it finally arrives at the end of the line, admirably simple.
This is the best Clive Barker-inspired movie in a long, long time -- probably since "Hellraiser III" in 1992.
Goes full speed on ultra-gory rails before slamming to an abrupt stop.
while skimpy on characterization and plot, it should please gorehounds and Barker fans alike
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.
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.
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.
The Midnight Meat Train is destined for cult status as an minor horror gem.
a stylishly bloody descent into madness, murder and Hell itself.
Midnight Meat Train can best be described as splatter noir. It's Fritz Lang by way of an abattoir.
Destined to be a cult classic as a vicious, brilliant, and disgusting horror film...
Japanese cult director Ryuhei Kitamura maintains impressive control of the story, ratcheting up tension toward well-prepared and startling bursts of terror.
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