It's excessively and imaginatively gory, presented in a straightforward manner, but with the slightest hint of a wink.
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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.
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... [More]
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Vinnie Jones, Roger Bart
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
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Reviews for The Midnight Meat Train
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.
02/21/09
Not at all Butchered.
02/18/09
Midnight Meat Train brings an unabashed brutality to the horror genre.
02/14/09
... remarkably effective and, when it finally arrives at the end of the line, admirably simple.
02/11/09
This is the best Clive Barker-inspired movie in a long, long time -- probably since "Hellraiser III" in 1992.
02/09/09
Goes full speed on ultra-gory rails before slamming to an abrupt stop.
01/28/09
while skimpy on characterization and plot, it should please gorehounds and Barker fans alike
01/03/09
The Midnight Meat Train is a real horror film-one filled with dark imagery, disturbing violence, and an ever-present sense of dread.
11/12/08
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.
10/31/08
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.
10/30/08
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.
10/30/08
The Midnight Meat Train is destined for cult status as an minor horror gem.
10/30/08
a stylishly bloody descent into madness, murder and Hell itself.
10/24/08
Midnight Meat Train can best be described as splatter noir. It's Fritz Lang by way of an abattoir.
10/16/08
Destined to be a cult classic as a vicious, brilliant, and disgusting horror film...
10/06/08
Japanese cult director Ryuhei Kitamura maintains impressive control of the story, ratcheting up tension toward well-prepared and startling bursts of terror.
09/26/08
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.
08/22/08
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.
08/11/08
Top CriticMore 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.
08/08/08
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