The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 28
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 8
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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Critic Reviews: 3
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 1
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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Movie Info
A photographer propelled to explore his dark side begins tracking a subway serial killer whose brutal butchery makes for the most nightmarish images ever captured on camera in director Ryuhei Kitamura's adaptation of a short story by horror heavyweight Clive Barker. Leon Kaufman (Bradley Cooper) is just another struggling photographer in search of the perfect subject. Encouraged to explore the sinister side of humanity by a prominent art gallery proprietor (Brooke Shields) who is set to display
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Cast
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Bradley Cooper
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Leslie Bibb
Maya -
Brooke Shields
Susan Hoff -
Vinnie Jones
Mahogany -
Roger Bart
Jurgis -
Tony Curran
Driver -
Barbara Eve Harris
Detective Lynn Hadley -
Ted Raimi
Randle Cooper -
Stephanie Mace
Leigh Cooper -
Nora
Erika Sakaki -
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson
Guardian Angel -
Dan Callahan
Troy Talevski -
Donnie Smith
Station Cop -
Peter Jacobson
Otto
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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.
Top CriticWe 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.
Not at all Butchered.
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.
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.
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.
Audience Reviews for The Midnight Meat Train
Super Reviewer
The story starts out as a routine slasher type gore fest but slowly grows into something much more curious, so much so that I don't really understand what happened at the end and why haha
I want to find out though as it was really interesting and turned this from a basic splatter machine into an almost mythical religious cult type story....or thats what it appeared to become right at the end.
I don't normally like these type of horror films but the inclusion of Jones as the main villain made me wanna see this, his acting is speechless literately haha yet his Lear's and shark like movements are pretty effective....not bad for an ex Wimbledon nut cruncher lol love ya Vinnie
Top notch flick
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- Driver: Please, step away from the meat.
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- Mahogany: Welcome.
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