Genre: Horror Mystery Thriller
Cert: R-rated (18 cert)
Director: Ryûhei Kitamura
Screen writer: Jeff Buhler (screenplay), Clive Barker (short story "The Midnight Meat Train")
Starring: Bradley Cooper ,Leslie Bibb , Brooke Shields , Vinnie Jones , Roger Bart , Tony Curran, Barbara Eve Harris , Peter Jacobson , Stephanie Mace , Ted Raimi ,Nori Satô , Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson , Dan Callahan , Donnie Smith , Earl Carroll.
Running time: 98 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: A man and a woman start kissing.He then starts thrusting from behind, implying sex. They are fully clothed and only seen from chest up, so there is no nudity.
A young woman is confronted by a gang, one of them requests oral sex, she declines and someone intervenes.
A man is seen completely topless in bed.
A man press breasts of woman and start making love with her, the woman moans, but no nudity.
A woman is undressing his shirt and bra, not nude but her hands were on breasts, while posing for the snaps.
A woman breasts were shown, who was lying dead.
Several naked dead bodies are seen in multiple scenes; bare buttocks and chests can be seen.
Violence & Gore: A man slips on a pool of blood, falls on the ground, and is therefore covered in it. He then sees a man hacking someone to death with a hammer; most of it is off-screen, squishing can be heard.
A person hits a guy's head from the back with a hammer so hard his eyeballs are dislocated and pop out; blood gushes and fills the floor of the train, and we see his eyes pop out in a slow motion. Another man is stabbed with a fish-hook. The same man tries to stop the killer and is hit again with the hammer on the face: blood splatters. A woman is then beheaded (off-screen).
Two men struggle in a train. An hammer is used to beat one of the opponent's hand, a man is stabbed, and then one of them is shot by another man; blood pours and sprays in close-up.
Many dead bodies can be seen hanging by hooks naked and with blood on them.
, mostly off-screen.
A scene shows two men fighting with lots of stabbings and slashes, during the scene a man is stabbed in the back of the head and the neck.
An heart is taken from a still living chest, and it's implied that another person eats it.
A man pulls out another man's tongue and eats it.
In a graphic, disturbing and lengthy scene, a man can be seen shaving a body, removing its teeth, nails and eyes with tools, stabbing its ankles with a hook, and hanging it.
A young woman gets her head smashed with an hammer.
A character removes (and then keeps in a jar) gross and bizarre growths from his flesh by cutting them away with a knife (no blood).
There is a sequence taking place in a meat-packaging business; no living animal is seen being slaughtered, but animals bodies and parts are graphically and lengthy seen while the butchers handle them.
Profanity: A handful of uses of 'fuck'.
Some milder language.
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A few characters are shown drinking beer at a bar.
Frightening/Intense Scenes: The killer is a fearsome and vicious person that kills without mercy.
The movie features blood and gore.
The tone of the movie is very dark, serious and psychological.
Many intense scenes, but nothing scary; Several scenes of stalking, running, and hiding.
Story: The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she analyses Leon's work and asks him to improve the quality of his photos. During the night, the upset Leon decides to wander on the streets taking pictures with his camera, and he follows three punks down to the subway station; when the gang attacks a young woman, Leon defends her and the guys move on. On the next morning, Leon discovers that the woman is missing. He goes to the police station, but Detective Lynn Hadley does not give much attention to him and discredits his statement. Leon becomes obsessed to find what happened with the stranger and he watches the subway station. When he sees the elegant butcher Mahogany in the train, Leon believes he might be a murderer and stalks him everywhere, in the beginning of his journey to the darkness.
Likes : Clive Barker's more sanguinary inclinations are paid tribute here through a hulking golem, a malevolent meat merchant in his dapper best, named Mahogany (Vinnie Jones) who smashes, eviscerates and cleaves through unsuspecting commuters on the last train home. Adapted from Barker's seminal anthology, "Books of Blood", the similarly named "The Midnight Meat Train" is more than just an opportunity for some sophomoric snickering over its title but one of Barker's most revered short stories about a supernatural serial killer that ekes out fascination, fear and obsession from a lone photographer, Leon Kaufman (Bradley Cooper) stumbling upon the butcher's late night deliveries.
I will say Vinnie Jones has the face for horror as his performance in this film was seriously spine chilling & sinister, special with the way he look at you with those eye's, which pulls off the psychotic manic killer look perfect.From what ive read this is one of the best short short story adaptation from Clive barker, which lets face it has Clive barker written all over it, ive seen bloody film's before but ive haven't seen a blood feast film shown in such a sinister cold chilling way like this since Clive barkers Hell raiser back in the 80s, so this was the first time i watch this film although i did notice a few flaws that could of been done better but this was a great film for horror fans.
We've see alot of horror where a killer has used a knife, machete, guns, chain saw, axe. etc....but there is seriously something brutal about a metal meat tenderiser hammer being used in such a vicious way it just makes you blood turn cold, this is the way this film effects you.Which is great because it set a much darker cold chilling tone, which Bradley Cooper did well in, with a convincing performance special the way his character started to change from this claim mild man to this cold dark de-meaner which was clever showing the transaction, which lends to the ending, with a very good twist, because what you think is going on lends to a much darker story which i liked.
Director Ryuhei Kitamura (of "Versus" and "Azumi" fame) offers up one of the year's most brutally alluring gore feasts in his American début which dose well to off set the audience with the gritty and detailed hard-edge of early 70's horror films, his flair for C.G.I augmented visuals and the intense seduction of experimental camera-work in a cinematic environment really increase sanitised of actual visceral terror bring you one of the best blood soaked horrors since hell raiser in my book.
Dislikes : The Girlfriend, making a women in a movies cliché really off set the concept off the film, don't get me wrong Leslie Bibb dose her best to come off as the loving girl but the way her character in written in she came across really dumb instead of a smart independent woman special in some scene. One scene in particular (spoiler alert) A scene where she see the bag on the table yet instead of run out the door she look for her friend. Really !!!!!!!.....
its scene like this that slow the film down & make the woman look dumb in film's because it make you scream at the TV don't go in there run for the door (come on you know what im talking about everyone dose it), when they start shrill and trying to run it comes off a bad cheesy movie, there were forced love scenes and quite frankly, the actress the way she was written in added to the slow pacing when she could of been written in to be more proactive & supportive of the leads journey into hell.
There is one other thing, now don't get me wrong Vinnie Jones performance was brilliant,cold & chilling, but i feel that his scene's could of been better if we didn't see he face until almost the end of the film, which would of add to the chill & scare factor of who this guy is, instead of showing his face midway through, because it took away the scare factor, even though the brutality of the scenes compensated for the lack of scare factor there, so really apart from these this film is a good horror special on shock value.
Overall : brutal, fast in place slow in others, cold dark chill performance from Vinnie Jones, brilliant performance from Bradley cooper, a great film for gore feast fans & fan of the Clive Barker film's
Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 8.1 out of 10 for gore feast / Twist in the concept.
Screen writer: Jeff Buhler (screenplay), Clive Barker (short story "The Midnight Meat Train")
Starring: Bradley Cooper ,Leslie Bibb , Brooke Shields , Vinnie Jones , Roger Bart , Tony Curran, Barbara Eve Harris , Peter Jacobson , Stephanie Mace , Ted Raimi ,Nori Satô , Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson , Dan Callahan , Donnie Smith , Earl Carroll.
Running time: 98 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: A man and a woman start kissing.He then starts thrusting from behind, implying sex. They are fully clothed and only seen from chest up, so there is no nudity.
A young woman is confronted by a gang, one of them requests oral sex, she declines and someone intervenes.
A man is seen completely topless in bed.
A man press breasts of woman and start making love with her, the woman moans, but no nudity.
A woman is undressing his shirt and bra, not nude but her hands were on breasts, while posing for the snaps.
A woman breasts were shown, who was lying dead.
Several naked dead bodies are seen in multiple scenes; bare buttocks and chests can be seen.
Violence & Gore: A man slips on a pool of blood, falls on the ground, and is therefore covered in it. He then sees a man hacking someone to death with a hammer; most of it is off-screen, squishing can be heard.
A person hits a guy's head from the back with a hammer so hard his eyeballs are dislocated and pop out; blood gushes and fills the floor of the train, and we see his eyes pop out in a slow motion. Another man is stabbed with a fish-hook. The same man tries to stop the killer and is hit again with the hammer on the face: blood splatters. A woman is then beheaded (off-screen).
Two men struggle in a train. An hammer is used to beat one of the opponent's hand, a man is stabbed, and then one of them is shot by another man; blood pours and sprays in close-up.
Many dead bodies can be seen hanging by hooks naked and with blood on them.
, mostly off-screen.
A scene shows two men fighting with lots of stabbings and slashes, during the scene a man is stabbed in the back of the head and the neck.
An heart is taken from a still living chest, and it's implied that another person eats it.
A man pulls out another man's tongue and eats it.
In a graphic, disturbing and lengthy scene, a man can be seen shaving a body, removing its teeth, nails and eyes with tools, stabbing its ankles with a hook, and hanging it.
A young woman gets her head smashed with an hammer.
A character removes (and then keeps in a jar) gross and bizarre growths from his flesh by cutting them away with a knife (no blood).
There is a sequence taking place in a meat-packaging business; no living animal is seen being slaughtered, but animals bodies and parts are graphically and lengthy seen while the butchers handle them.
Profanity: A handful of uses of 'fuck'.
Some milder language.
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A few characters are shown drinking beer at a bar.
Frightening/Intense Scenes: The killer is a fearsome and vicious person that kills without mercy.
The movie features blood and gore.
The tone of the movie is very dark, serious and psychological.
Many intense scenes, but nothing scary; Several scenes of stalking, running, and hiding.
Story: The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she analyses Leon's work and asks him to improve the quality of his photos. During the night, the upset Leon decides to wander on the streets taking pictures with his camera, and he follows three punks down to the subway station; when the gang attacks a young woman, Leon defends her and the guys move on. On the next morning, Leon discovers that the woman is missing. He goes to the police station, but Detective Lynn Hadley does not give much attention to him and discredits his statement. Leon becomes obsessed to find what happened with the stranger and he watches the subway station. When he sees the elegant butcher Mahogany in the train, Leon believes he might be a murderer and stalks him everywhere, in the beginning of his journey to the darkness.
Likes : Clive Barker's more sanguinary inclinations are paid tribute here through a hulking golem, a malevolent meat merchant in his dapper best, named Mahogany (Vinnie Jones) who smashes, eviscerates and cleaves through unsuspecting commuters on the last train home. Adapted from Barker's seminal anthology, "Books of Blood", the similarly named "The Midnight Meat Train" is more than just an opportunity for some sophomoric snickering over its title but one of Barker's most revered short stories about a supernatural serial killer that ekes out fascination, fear and obsession from a lone photographer, Leon Kaufman (Bradley Cooper) stumbling upon the butcher's late night deliveries.
I will say Vinnie Jones has the face for horror as his performance in this film was seriously spine chilling & sinister, special with the way he look at you with those eye's, which pulls off the psychotic manic killer look perfect.From what ive read this is one of the best short short story adaptation from Clive barker, which lets face it has Clive barker written all over it, ive seen bloody film's before but ive haven't seen a blood feast film shown in such a sinister cold chilling way like this since Clive barkers Hell raiser back in the 80s, so this was the first time i watch this film although i did notice a few flaws that could of been done better but this was a great film for horror fans.
We've see alot of horror where a killer has used a knife, machete, guns, chain saw, axe. etc....but there is seriously something brutal about a metal meat tenderiser hammer being used in such a vicious way it just makes you blood turn cold, this is the way this film effects you.Which is great because it set a much darker cold chilling tone, which Bradley Cooper did well in, with a convincing performance special the way his character started to change from this claim mild man to this cold dark de-meaner which was clever showing the transaction, which lends to the ending, with a very good twist, because what you think is going on lends to a much darker story which i liked.
Director Ryuhei Kitamura (of "Versus" and "Azumi" fame) offers up one of the year's most brutally alluring gore feasts in his American début which dose well to off set the audience with the gritty and detailed hard-edge of early 70's horror films, his flair for C.G.I augmented visuals and the intense seduction of experimental camera-work in a cinematic environment really increase sanitised of actual visceral terror bring you one of the best blood soaked horrors since hell raiser in my book.
Dislikes : The Girlfriend, making a women in a movies cliché really off set the concept off the film, don't get me wrong Leslie Bibb dose her best to come off as the loving girl but the way her character in written in she came across really dumb instead of a smart independent woman special in some scene. One scene in particular (spoiler alert) A scene where she see the bag on the table yet instead of run out the door she look for her friend. Really !!!!!!!.....
its scene like this that slow the film down & make the woman look dumb in film's because it make you scream at the TV don't go in there run for the door (come on you know what im talking about everyone dose it), when they start shrill and trying to run it comes off a bad cheesy movie, there were forced love scenes and quite frankly, the actress the way she was written in added to the slow pacing when she could of been written in to be more proactive & supportive of the leads journey into hell.
There is one other thing, now don't get me wrong Vinnie Jones performance was brilliant,cold & chilling, but i feel that his scene's could of been better if we didn't see he face until almost the end of the film, which would of add to the chill & scare factor of who this guy is, instead of showing his face midway through, because it took away the scare factor, even though the brutality of the scenes compensated for the lack of scare factor there, so really apart from these this film is a good horror special on shock value.
Overall : brutal, fast in place slow in others, cold dark chill performance from Vinnie Jones, brilliant performance from Bradley cooper, a great film for gore feast fans & fan of the Clive Barker film's
Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 8.1 out of 10 for gore feast / Twist in the concept.
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