I think that the kind of fiction that I write is very much about the way that lots of different types of people deal with the invasion of the monstrous or the supernatural in their lives and I dont want them all to deal with it in the same way. Powers / Skills By way of the secret tunnel to the subway from the slaughterhouse, he ventures armed to the teeth with body plates included, a knight in shining armor for Maya, who has already boarded the train and is searching for the truth. At the time he had just done some childrens books that he had just set up at Disney, and he thought it might taint that situation a little. And I wanted to go dont ask me where this comes from but I wanted to go there on a bus. See production, box office & company info, Phelous & the Movies: Phelous Aboard the Midnight Meat Train. What are the barnacles doing on Mahogany's chest in Midnight Meat Train? It's visually engrossing, the acting and story are mostly solid, and it has a great lead villain in Vinnie Jones. to satiate their hunger so they dont come up to the surface and run rampant and kill everyone..its like a sacrifice. If this is the kind of quality material that Kitamura's going to deliver in Hollywood, I hope he stays there. One schoolboy was leading the laughter and applause, he noted later. The conductor then forces Leon to watch as he kills Maya with one of the butcher's knives. Without a kindred heart to love, and being permanently silenced from telling the world, Leon has lost everything. No matter, the gore factor is selling point to the genre crowd and they don't have to worry. He had just worked with Clive on the TV movie, Saint Sinner, and Clive noted, He was the special effects guy who did Independence Day and hes a really cool guy. If this is the kind of quality material that Kitamura's going to deliver in Hollywood, I hope he stays there. I was 19, maybe 20 years old. The conductor tells Leon the creatures have lived beneath the city long before the subway was constructed, and the butcher's job is to feed them each night to keep them from attacking subway riders during the day. When Maya is searching through Mahogany's bathroom, at one point the white t-shirt of a crew member is visible in the mirror. "[14] Bloody Disgusting said that "Clive Barker fans will rejoice in what director Ryuhei Kitamura has given them. The killer walks onto the midnight train and reveals himself as Leon. That provides Leon with some startling subject matter, to say the least, and the shutterbug continues to stalk Mahogany, despite the obvious jeopardy involved. The HongKong Version is based on the R-Rated and on top of that was even censored in order to get a CAT II-Rating. In "The Midnight Meat Train," Kaufman's a real marginal, a disenfranchised accountant whose life doesn't mean anything until he realises that there are greater forces at work than he had ever thought. Quite possibly the most overlooked and mishandled horror films of the past 20 years, The Midnight Meat Train truly lives up to it's title and MPAA Unrated status. I like endings like this but this was just too ambiguous and 'hurr durr we can't think of a good way to explain this character's reactions to these events'. Intrigued, he investigates reports of similar disappearances. She goes to the police but finds Hadley still skeptical. I got on the subway late one night and it took me to a place called Far Rockaway, the end of the line. Others worked with his visions, with Bernard Roses Candyman and Bill Condons sequel, strong early entrants to the canon. I like to be able to give the reader everything I can imagine on a subject. They're weakened and need human flesh to live, and the leaders of modern society need them to live, thus their agreement to deliver them human flesh every night. Lakeshore Entertainments Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Richard Wright and Eric Reid are producing the film with David Rubin serving as executive producer, and Beth DePatie co-producing. Melee expertiseBrute strengthHigh durabilityCombat skills You wont find any gentle, soft, entertaining, just for the sake of it horror here. The acting cast is on point with the story, altho I have never seen Bradley Cooper in a role like this, which works out pretty well in the end ( actually, he should try and do more roles like this one, it suites him pretty well). Keep killing suitable victims that enter the subway lines and feed their corpses to the City Fathers. That's why I had a discussion with my costume designer Chris Lawrence, and with Vinnie himself. He wears a ring on his finger, adorned with an eight pointed star. In an inversion of Roses transplantation of the Liverpool-based story, The Forbidden, to Chicago for Candyman, here he swapped the subways of New York for the London Underground and Leon Kaufman became police constable Kathy Blake. In The Midnight Meat Train, Kaufmans a real marginal, a disenfranchised accountant whose life doesnt mean anything until he realises that there are greater forces at work than he had ever thought. It seems to make sense, thought it was just a result of being the executioner of monsters, perhaps a kind of disease from them. Film wouldnt have easily allowed us that luxury, so I decided to reinvent the protagonist as a photographer, whose observations could be visually communicated to the audience through his work. But director Ryuhei Kitamura also likes to indulge his artsy side, which means certain scenes are elegantly photographed and stylishly composed; other sequences seem to be inspired by whatever Kitamura recently saw on MTV. Detective Hadley (Barbara Eve Harris) is having none of it, though, and still gives the impression that there's nothing to be concerned about, establishing that is definitely not the case, and she knows more than she's letting on. In the Japanese director's first English-language film, he has taken his visual genius from Alive and Versus and translated it into an action-packed blood fest. After breaking in, Jurgis is captured, though Maya escapes with timetables that record over a hundred years of murders on the subway. Boston was amazing But I wanted to see New York. Midnight Meat Train: Mahogany's Tale: With Vinnie Jones. The final scene shows Hadley handing over the old timetables to a yet-to-be-revealed Mahogany, which turns out to be an alias for the long line of serial killers. Both are censored and cut differently. The conductor of the train enters the car, advising Leon and Maya to "Please step away from the meat." Photographer Bradley Cooper develops an obsession with a serial killer in THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN. Why is Leon so willing to put his life (and sanity) on the line? It's a graphic display of showing just what levels Leon has been degraded to. Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement updated 7/1/2022). Yes, I stick by it: I have seen the future of the horror genre, and his name is Clive Barker What Barker does in the Books of Blood makes the rest of us look like weve been asleep for the last ten years.. Jeff Buhler took the conductors seat for this journey of the Meat Train. The thing about The Midnight Meat Train, Clive agrees, is that it was positioned through my editors good sense in the collection so that it almost announces, This guy will do anything to you. My feeling was, lets see what happens, you know, how bad can this get? And there is, I hope, a feeling of relentlessness about it that its picked you up and wont let go until its finished. Winkelen op rubriek. Emboldened, he heads into the city's subway system at night, where he takes pictures of an impending sexual assault before saving the woman. The Midnight Meat Train Watch the full movie online. That goes a long way toward explaining how what seemed to be a can't-miss horror film wound up being exiled into bargain-price cinemas instead of getting a major release. I went to his house and acted out the scene and explained everything and after ten minutes he said, I like it, you solved all the problems. I'm a fan so I know I'd be upset if someone messed up his great book, but I'm trying to make something better otherwise I wouldn't have come all the way from Japan to do this.. It's the lengthy list of producers and executive producers listed in the credits, a whopping 15 in all. He was one of those people who somehow managed to keep, uncannily kept up, almost intimate contact with friends everywhere, all his Yale friends knew and loved him. When he is done, he tells Leon that, having killed the butcher, Leon must take his place. the attempted rape scene in the staircase is also entirely cut (so is the clue with the ring, or the model's murder)brooke shield's character also never appears and leon's motivations are not about fame and money but more about morbid voyeurism.the theatrical version is more dreamlike and confused, as it is mainly focused on cooper's character Origin No, I thnk your interpretation of the movie is based on confirmation bias. I may say he changed that, simply by demonstrating that horror fiction could be spoken of with as much aesthetic insight as any other fiction with the added bonus that it gave you apocalyptic visions. The conductor forces Leon to watch as he cuts Maya's chest open to remove her heart. I had this massive plan in my head. After a brief scuffle with Mahogany, Leon passes out on the train. The movie's central joke (aside from Mahogany's meticulous maintenance of his wardrobe) turns out to be that Leon is a vegetarian, despite the fact that his girlfriend, Maya (Leslie Bibb), serves up cheesesteaks all day in a diner. A passenger walks by Mahogany (Vinnie Jones) who has no idea what's about to happen to him. Hes a fantastic visual director. It was quite an effort to search for the "R" rated version of the film since it was barely released anywhere except for the US rental stores. Like Barker's other iconic villain with a hook for a hand, this one is another misunderstood monster, who in this case, was a necessary evil. The Midnight Meat Train was released theatrically in Australia on 19 February 2009, with a rating of R18+ for high level violence, blood and gore. | He just brutally killed the love of his life before his eyes and he just gives up and accepts it, and then starts killing strangers to feed to monsters? The world premiere was on July 19, 2008 at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal, in the presence of director Ryuhei Kitamura. His investigation leads him to a butcher named Mahogany, whom he suspects has been killing subway passengers for the past three years. I sent it to Clive and he said, Pardon me for asking, but where is the Candyman in all of this? However, I love that script and Id really like to make it soon. All rights reserved (About Us). Finally, Mahogany is thrown out of the train by Leon, but not long before it hits its final stop. Human body parts are ripped, thrown, and used as weapons. Mahogany was getting old and sick, as evidenced by him coughing up blood and nearly losing to Rampage Jackson's character (the black guy in the subway). If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. By 2003, though, Clive had turned his thoughts back to the darkness with plans to produce a series of movies based on the Books of Blood from his company, Seraphim Films. He says that, having killed the butcher, Leon must take his place. Hobby Leon's girlfriend Maya (Leslie Bibb) is understandably concerned about her boyfriend's behavior and shares his recent obsession with their friend Jurgis (Roger Bart). They looked weak, cumbersome and diseased. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your California Privacy Rights (User Agreement updated 1/1/21. He begins to stalk Mahogany, ends up seeing his bloody work on the subway, and another confrontation leaves Leon bloodied and unconscious at an abandoned subway stop that runs underneath the meat packing plant, and he finds that he's been marked by a strange symbol carved into his chest. The Green Line runs red. [16], Official: Midnight Meat Train Knocked Out of May, March 25, 2008, 'Midnight Meat Train': Lionsgate Nearly Butchers Its Own Horror Film, Ubisoft Presents Fantasia 2008 | Films + Schedule|Midnight Meat Train, "BD Horror News - A Letter From the Editor RE: 'Meat Train', Help Save Horror! Its the energy of that, the inevitability. The FAQ items below may give away important plot points. No other movie in the past twenty years reached that level of an icon right? 2008 103 min TVMA Horror, Sci-Fi/Horror Feature Film Released Year: 2008 Share on: Shop Packages 2008 103 min TVMA Horror, Sci-Fi/Horror Feature Film Cast & Crew Ryhei Kitamura Director Bradley Cooper Leon Leslie Bibb Maya Vinnie Jones Mahogany Brooke Shields Susan Hoff Roger Bart Jurgis Okay so I just watched this film. User Ratings Tatopoulos left the production in 2006 and was replaced by Ryuhei Kitamura. Im not here to reassure you. I always thought that was a strong horror title you know, like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: there are two words in that title, chainsaw and massacre, and the two words midnight and meat they are words that signify youre going to see some no-holds-barred horror.. I am an admin of this site. Thats not such a big difference in age now, but at the time it seemed like a big difference: He stood in the outside world while I still laboured in the salt-mines of State-supplied education, and it was wonderful to hear somebody from that other world express such an unalloyed love of all things dark and disturbing. I was the only person on the train, I hadnt begun to write the short stories at that point, but it made a huge impression on me. | Sans le vouloir, il va entraner Maya, sa petite amie . The film's original director, Patrick Tatopoulos, originally planned to shoot the film in 2005 in New York City and Montreal. It has been a long time since a major horror film has been given such loving treatment by its director." The Midnight Meat Train (2008) - Filming & Production - IMDb The Midnight Meat Train (2008) Filming & Production Showing all 12 items Jump to: Filming Locations (10) Filming Dates (1) Production Dates (1) Filming Locations Edit Metro Station - 7th & Flower Streets, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA 9 of 9 found this interesting Detective Hadley hands the train schedule to the new butcher, who wears a ring with the symbol of the group that feeds the creatures. In Marks words, I did a treatment for Clive Barker, The Midnight Meat Train, but he thought it was too dark! Finally, the police chief hands the train schedule to the new butcher, who wears a ring with the eight pointed star on it, a symbol for the group that feeds the creatures. battle of omdurman order of battle. Over the years, he noted, weve had a few of the stories turned into movies Candyman came from a story in the Books of Blood but the great bulk of the stories have remained unfilmed because I wanted to find a time when I had a team around me who would allow me to make a series of movies. But that Mahogany never got to shave weird skin growths off of her chest and save them in canning jars, or seized the opportunity to flay and filet subway riders; those pleasures are reserved for the man known as Mahogany in THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN. Each producer on a film is there to add his or her own input and advice. Fortunately , the Austrian mediabook by NSM also contains the theatrical version as a bonus. No punches are pulled. His investigation leads him to a butcher named Mahogany, whom he suspects has been killing subway passengers for the past three years. Costume designer is Christopher Lawrence (Crank, S.W.A.T.). Instead, at the end of 2006, Ryuhei Kitamura was announced as the Trains new and ultimate driver. Anyway, as far as I understand things, the butcher and the conductor feed people to these lizard zombie alien things. They knew Leon was obsessed with the killings and the final confrontation between Leon and Mahogany was in fact pretty much a training exercise to see if Leon had it in him to kill. Like Freddie's claw, Jason's machete, whatever. Ramsey was twenty-one then. It can be found in Volume One (of Six) of Barker's collection Books of Blood (1984-1985). He notices something odd about the empty train and gets up to investigate the compartments, but he stumbles and falls on his back in a pool of blood. Horror fiction has rarely been viewed as an intellectually credible area of endeavour and I with one eye on Oxford and the other on Edgar Allan Poe didnt have the courage of my enthusiasms. You know, I think theres only two movies that are good: Hellraiser; Candyman. I made notes when I got back to Boston. Leon enters the train as Mahogany has completed his nightly massacre, and has cornered a helpless Maya. "[11], IGN said, "Director Ryuhei Kitamura brings an incredible level of polish and visual sophistication to what is essentially a mid-range script. If youve ever seen Versus or any of his other Japanese-language films, hes just an unbelievable director. Twenty five pages later, as the Palace of Delights received Kaufmans adoration without comment, the author whom the rear cover proclaimed was rapidly establishing himself as one of todays most stunningly original masters of the horror genre had set the bar high and challenged readers with perhaps the most overtly gory tale of all that were to follow. Sure, theres Midnight Meat Train and Rawhead Rex, but theres a lot of stuff thats less excessive in terms of the gross-out. New Poster for M. Night Shyamalan's 'Knock at the Cabin', Press J to jump to the feed. Leon heads to a hidden subway entrance in the slaughterhouse, arming himself with several knives. He assaults and kills several people with a meat hammer and a butcher's hook. Whatever ideas MEAT has about the sordid side of human nature are finally washed away in a flood of impossible-to-explain plot developments that would seem to indicate the filmmakers were frantically throwing in a little of everything in a futile attempt to please that battalion of producers. box office). [7] The world premiere was on July 19, 2008, at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal, in the presence of director Ryuhei Kitamura. Subscribe and stay tuned more ONE DOLLAR MOVIES coming soon! The film follows a photographer who attempts to track down a serial killer dubbed the "Subway Butcher", and discovers more than he bargained for under the city streets. Thats the part of acting I dont like. In, Jurgis is captured, though Maya escapes with timetables that record a... 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