If you are looking for a different kind of horror movie killer, then the assassin at the center of this horror movie is one of the best movies ever made. This Meat Train review is a spoiler review and includes an explanation and spoilers. A dark and gritty adaptation of a serial killer. This is one of my all-time favorite films. He sees and photographs things he shouldn’t and Mahogany knows who he is.īack in 2008, Clive Barker’s short story The Midnight Meat Train, and his novel Books of Blood were adapted into a film.

He follows a man called Mahogany trying to land the next big story and discovers this mysterious man is a killer. Being in the city’s darkness, Leon discovers more than he bargained for. Instead of continuing on the path he has always walked, he decides to take it up a notch. The twist at the end of the film is intellectually satisfying, thanks to its origins in a well-crafted short story, but, ultimately, is let down a little by poor execution - probably thanks to a shortfall in the special-effects budget.Īfter a great build-up, this ending should feel mythic, but, sadly, it doesn't.Leon’s a photographer whose work keeps getting rejected. The Butcher and his nightly subway rampages intriguing rather than simply bloody and terrifying. Jones puts in a surprisingly nuanced performance in an entirely non-speaking part, and the Japanese director Ryûhei Kitamura, making his American feature-film debut, does a deft job of creating atmosphere and of making But as he gets closer to the truth, he realises that uncovering it will put his life in danger. Rightly suspecting that this mysterious stranger has a secret, Leon becomes obsessed, tracking him down to the hotel where he lives and the meatpacking plant where he works during the day.

One night, while scouring the streets of New York for subjects, he encounters We then meet Leon (Bradley Cooper), a budding photographer who is attempting to impress a gallery owner by taking his images of urban life to the next level. The film opens with a suitably grisly tableau as a character known simply as The Butcher, (Vinnie Jones), dispatches passengers on a late-night subway train with brutal efficiency. The Midnight Meat Train is based on a short story of the same name by the horror supremo Clive Barker, published in 1984.

The Midnight Meat Train by Clive Barker