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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.

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

Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:Aug 1, 2008 Limited

Box Office: $34,394

Synopsis: Next stop…death. When Leon Kaufman’s (Bradley Cooper) latest body of work – a collection of provocative, nighttime studies of the city and its inhabitants -- earns the struggling photographer... Next stop…death.

When Leon Kaufman’s (Bradley Cooper) latest body of work – a collection of provocative, nighttime studies of the city and its inhabitants -- earns the struggling photographer interest from prominent art gallerist Susan Hoff (Brooke Shields), she propels him to get grittier and show the darker side of humanity for his upcoming debut at her downtown art space.

Believing he’s finally on track for success, Leon’s obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer, Mahogany (Vinnie Jones), the subway murderer who stalks late-night commuters -- ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways imaginable.

With his concerned girlfriend Maya (Leslie Bibb) fearing for his life, Leon’s relentless fascination with Mahogany lures him further and further into the bowels of the subways and ultimately into an abyss of pure evil – inadvertently pulling Maya right along with him.

The horror thriller Midnight Meat Train stars Bradley Cooper (Wedding Crashers, TV’s Alias,), Vinnie Jones (X-Men: The Last Stand, Snatch), Brooke Shields (Nip/Tuck), and Leslie Bibb (the upcoming Trick R'Treat, Taladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby).

Also starring are Roger Bart (Hostel: Part II, TV’s Desperate Housewives), Peter Jacobson (Goodnight and Good Luck), Barbara Eve Harris (TV’s Prison Break), and UFC mixed martial arts fighter Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson.

Midnight Meat Train is directed by critically acclaimed Japanese director Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, Azumi, Sky High) in his American debut, and based on legendary horror writer Clive Barker’s popular, eponymous short story from his classic Books of Blood collection. The screenplay was adapted by Jeff Buhler. --© Lions Gate
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Starring: Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Vinnie Jones, Roger Bart

Starring: Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Vinnie Jones, Roger Bart, Peter Jacobson, Brooke Shields, Barbara Eve Harris

Director: Ryuhei Kitamura

Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Screenwriter: Jeff Buhler
Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Richard S. Wright, Eric Reid, Jorge Saralegui, Clive Barker
Composer: Nobuhiko Morino
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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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
03/20/09
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
02/21/09
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Not at all Butchered.

Full Review Source: Horror.com | comment Comment
02/18/09
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
02/14/09
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
02/11/09
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
02/09/09
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
01/28/09
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
01/03/09
Keith Breese
Keith Breese
Filmcritic.com

The Midnight Meat Train is a real horror film-one filled with dark imagery, disturbing violence, and an ever-present sense of dread.

Full Review Source: Mike Bracken's Horror Films | comment 1 Comment
11/12/08
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken's Horror Films

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
10/31/08
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
10/30/08
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: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
10/30/08
Jim Hall
Jim Hall
Channel 4 Film

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

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
10/30/08
Rob Daniel
Rob Daniel
Sky Movies

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

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
10/24/08
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
10/16/08
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
10/06/08
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
09/26/08
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
08/22/08
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
08/11/08
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
08/08/08
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
 
 
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