Considering this was the directors first US based English dialogue film, it is a very strong movie. The script, adapted by Jeff Buhler, is surprisingly smart and thought provoking, avoiding a lot of usual genre clichés.
The Midnight Meat Train boasts a robust featuring Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Vinnie Jones and Brooke Shields. The movie intelligently explores the nature and consequences of obsession as well as the contemporary media’s inherent addiction to voyeurism. He discovers more than he bargained for when his search takes him under the city streets. The film follows a photographer who attempts to track down a serial killer dubbed the "Subway Butcher". It’s a shame because The Midnight Meat Train deserved to have been released with a more fitting fanfare for a film of its calibre.ĭirected by Japanese auteur, Ryuhei Kitamura, The Midnight Meat Train is an adaptation of a Clive Barker short story from his infamous Books of Blood. The movie also struggled for a while to gain international distribution and it took several years for it to find an audience. This is quite paradoxical when you consider it’s made by Lionsgate pictures, a studio that got rich off the back of exploitative, clichéd horror franchises such as Saw and in more recent year’s teen orientated supernatural fodder. It's shocking, nasty, bleak and brutal, as well as being literate and honest. It’s a horror film that doesn't make the usual mistakes of trying to be hip, excessively self-referential or ironically post-modern. Despite being nearly decade old The Midnight Meat Train remains an outstanding genre movie.
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