The Midnight Meat Train |  | Director: Ryûhei Kitamura
Actors: Vinnie Jones, Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, Roger Bart
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  111 reviews
Sales Rank: 4704
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: LGED23904D
UPC: 031398101529
EAN: 0031398101529
ASIN: B001MFNB4O
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: February 17, 2009
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Product Description
STRUGGLING PHOTOGRAPER LEON KAUFFMAN'S OBSESSIVE PURSUIT OF DARK SUBJECT MATTER LEADS HIM INTO THE PATH OF A SERIAL KILLER, MAHOGANY, THE SUBWAY MURDERER WHO STALKS LATE-NIGHT COMMUTERS - ULTIMATELY BUTCHERING THEM IN THE MOST GRUESOME WAYSIMAGINABLE.
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 This is not for the kiddies! January 18, 2010
William B (Bangkok Thailand)
I just got this and had seen it before. Now I can not find it, oh I will.
Now if you like truly gory and scary movies this one delivers. Strong acting all around. The butcher is one evil hombre. Could use stronger words but not here. Hold on to your seats, even the wife pulled up her blanket with this thriller.
 Best Barker Adaptation December 23, 2009
S. Sommerville (Raleigh, NC)
Of all the Barker stories penned or adapted to film I can think of (Hellraiser, Rawhead Rex, Lord of Illusions, Nightbreed, Valerie Under the Stairs, Haeckle's Tale), this is the best. The director did a great job with the shots/angles to really give the film that extra level of creepiness. The acting was good, the script solid, and though there were some conveniences in the plot, the overall quality is of such it was easy for me to overlook that.
Other reviewers have summed up the plot nicely, just wanted to show the world that my thumbs are up on this for what its worth...
There's more to this than the gory title December 16, 2009
Joseph P. Menta, Jr. (Philadelphia, PA USA)
Like "The Ruins", another horror film I recently enjoyed on DVD, "The Midnight Meat Train" is a horror movie that- gads!- isn't afraid to actually be horrifying. There's lots of visceral and disturbing material here. But it all serves a pretty good story, one that- due to its source material being a short story by the great Clive Barker- also has an energetic little "literary" vibe going on under the surface. So you get some metaphors and social commentary along with all the bloodletting by the crazed ex-butcher who hangs out in lonely subway cars. Other plusses: some naturalistic, easygoing acting by the central young couple in the early going, which gets our guard down, and a quirky supporting character or two. A small minus: some cartoony CGI among the otherwise painfully realistic gore effects.
Do yourself a favor and dip into the bonus features after taking in the movie. They include generous interview material with Clive Barker, who really is a fascinating guy. I never knew he had a passion for painting in addition to his writing career and activities in film.
 Sci-fi camera shots bloodied with iffy plot and extreme gore December 16, 2009
Nikki (USA)
I started this movie only because it reminded me of a book, "Acceleration", that was about a boy who discovers the existence of a serial killer on the subway and has to wrestle with his own mind about what to do. Sounds familiar right? Well I figured "The Midnight Meat Train" couldn't be that bad since I liked the book's story. In that department, for me at least, the movie was a hit and miss.
I'll start with the pros and that was the first half (NOT including the bloody beginning intro scene). The main character, Leon, is a photographer and has prospects to sell his photos to a high to-do art lady. She poo-poos on his latest work and says that Leon was just too late in trying to capture "the heart of the city" on film. So he accepts her challenge and decides to work the city AT NIGHT BY HIMSELF. Long story short he captures a mugging/rape moment before stepping in and thus gets wrapped up in the underground subway murders by tracking a butcher throughout the city.
What I liked about this first part was, ironically, the camera shots and scene setups. The pace of the first half is actually really slow with Leon walking carefull through each scene like a photographer looking at the world. To amplify this idea all the shots are stunning, as if the movie is 'capturing the heart of the city' through Leon's actions. My favorite shot has got to be the subway's escalators that seem to pop up like some sci-fi alien before the audience can figure out what they are. The music is so subtle that I could just solely focus on the scenery that was filled with eye candy such as shadows and long shots of buildings. The best eye candy had to be when Leon gets back from the subway train and is just standing in the middle of the meat plant. While the camera's focused on him a worker is in the background slowly counting hanging meat hooks that sound in time with the quiet sounds of the music. Pure horror beauty (if such a thing exists).
Now unfortunately onto the cons, which is the story and second half of the movie. By the second half the director apparently figured out the viewers needed a little more substance than just pretty shots. Instead of a proper escalation of the psychology battle, we get extremely intense blood sequences. Now even I was a little squeamish during some of these scenes. I don't know too much about anatomy, but a human can't possible get bloody as quickly as this movie depicted. Blood by the buckets was literally thrown across the train floor. I have a hard time believing that the killer and his cohorts were able to clean all of it for every morning.
Speaking of cohorts, I had a big problem with the final plot. I won't be a spoiler, but what seems as an intense psychological showdown between two people turns into this conspiracy thing...just didn't work with the great pacing of the first half.
All in all I guess I didn't mind the movie that much. I think the amount of gore was unnecessary and even cheapened what the director had going for him in the beginning. This movie isn't for everyone, but I at least found something interesting about it.
 How could this go wrong??? November 25, 2009
Donald A. Prentiss (minneapolis, mn United States)
I like the director, I love the author, I love Vinny Jones - all the pieces seem to fit! This film is a HUGE let down. The lead actor just ain't got the chops to carry the weight of the role and for some reason the Director who usually has a great, fast paced and stylized hand with the camera seems very flat and boring with his shot choices and angles in MMT. Not enough Jones, not enough tension or believable aspects to make this a good film AND way too much terrible looking CG blood. TERRIBLE special effects.
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