Come for the ONE DOLLAR MOVIES, stay to enjoy clips of all your favorites. Instead, at the end of 2006, Ryuhei Kitamura was announced as the Trains new and ultimate driver. The Midnight Meat Train had earlier featured in Bernard Roses plans for Candyman 2, marrying the story to an updating of the Jack the Ripper story. Evil-doer to satiate their hunger so they dont come up to the surface and run rampant and kill everyone..its like a sacrifice. I started working with Clive on the screenplay way back in 2004, he recalls, and we did at least four drafts before Clive formed the Midnight Picture Company with partner Jorge Saralegui., Noting the need to change the emphasis for the screen from the narrative in the short story prompting the switch away from Leons profession as an accountant he explains, In the short were inside Leons head, so we know what hes thinking and feeling as he observes the city around him. Rent $3.99. And don't forget that he was already obsessed with Mahogany's work before that whole underground monster deal. He doesn't kill her at the end. The film's original director, Patrick Tatopoulos, originally planned to shoot the film in 2005 in New York City and Montreal. References:Movie File by Shawn Adler and Larry Carroll, MTV.com, 28 March 2007Barkers Midnight Meat Train On Track by Dave Alexander, Rue Morgue, No 47, July 2005Bernard Rose talks Candyman 4, www.horror-movies.ca/horror_4396.htmlNight Train To Terror, SFX, No 158, July 2007A Little Bit Of Hamlet A Conversation between Clive Barker and Dennis Etchison, UCLA Extension Writers Program, 25 February 1987Jump Tribe Panel, San Diego Comic Con, 14 July 2005Ramsey Campbell : An Appreciation, Essay by Clive Barker, 1986 World Fantasy Convention ProgrammeSpeech by Clive Barker in Tribute to Stephen KingWeaving Words with Clive Barker by Leigh Blackmore, Terror Australis, No 1, Autumn 1988Clive Barker Speaks Out About The Mistreatment Of Midnight Meat Train by Tom Blunt, AMC, 24 June 2008Introduction by Ramsey Campbell, Books of Blood I, Sphere Books, 5 May 1983The Barker in Darkness by Ramsey Campbell, Scream Press BOBWeaver of Wonders by Ramsey Campbell, Shadows in Eden, 1987The Crazy Train by Sean Decker, Fangoria, No 275, August 2008Bloodletting by Elijah Drenner for The Horror Channel, September 05, 2006Clive Barker by Nigel Floyd, Samhain, No 4, July 1987Jeff Buhler Gets Crazy With Insanitarium by Brian Gallagher, Movieweb, 16 July 2008The Cannibal Express by James Grainger, Rue Morgue, No 81, August 2008Production Report: "Midnight Meat Train" by Jason Guerrasio, indieWIRE, 1 May 2007Its Only When He Talks About Hollywood That The Evil Comes Out by Paula Guran, The Spook, Issue 6, January 2002Clive Barker by Nick Hasted, Creature, No 4, 1985The Author of Blood by David Howe, Starburst Winter Special, 1987/88Bradley Cooper Talks About His Role In Midnight Meat Train by Rizal Johan, The Star, 5 August 2008Interview with Clive Barker by Johanna Juntunen for Book of Blood DVD featuretteJones Rides the Meat Train by Patrick Lee, Sci-Fi Wire, 20 March 2007Lionsgate ComicCon Panel, 26 July 2007JoBlo Visits The Set Of The Hangover by Johnny Moreno, JoBlo.com, 1 May 2009Jones Spills Mucho Blood in Meat Train by Ryan Rotten, Shock Till You Drop.com, 20 April 2007The Midnight Meat Train Trilogy by Ryan Rotten, Shock Till You Drop, 13 February 2009Meet Horrors Heir Apparent by Matt Roush, USA Today, 22 August 1986In Anticipation Of The Deluge: A Moment At The Rivers Edge by Phil and Sarah Stokes, 1 and 12 July 2004Interview with Clive Barker by Phil and Sarah Stokes, 26 March 2004Gore Aboard The Midnight Meat Train by Ryan Turek, Fangoria, No 273, May 2008Horror In Training by Ryan Turek, Fangoria, No 268, November 2007Interview with Clive Barker by James Whittington, Horror Channel (zonehorror), 8 March 2009A Meaty, Bloody Film by Kevin Williamson, Sunn Media, 1 October 2008Clive Barker's Midnight Meat Train - Exclusive From The Set by Staci Layne Wilson, Horror.com, 5 September 2007Talking Terror with Clive Barker by Douglas E. Winter, The Twilight Zone, June 1987, Phil & Sarah Stokes, The Clive Barker Archive LLP. They operate on a sort of dream logic, where the supernatural behaves in a way that's internally consistent but uncommented upon - the visions and atmosphere are trusted to overpower a desire for something as mundane as logical explanation. The train reaches its final stop, a cavernous abandoned station filled with skulls and decomposing bodies. It's not clear whether it serves another function besides showing he's very sick. I read the Books of Blood in high school and Ive always loved the story of The Midnight Meat Train, so it was an honour for me to be able to give it a shot. Midnight Meat Train: Mahogany's Tale: With Vinnie Jones. A passenger walks by Mahogany (Vinnie Jones) who has no idea what's about to happen to him. He just saw the conductor kill his girlfriend for crying out loud, and he just accepts it? Leon enters the train as Mahogany has completed his nightly massacre, and has cornered a helpless Maya. I was the ideal candidate for this film, being a huge meat eater. Long before Bradley Cooper headed into The Shallows with Lady Gaga, he was a photographer who dug too deep into New York's subway in a Clive Barker adaptation heavy on gore and surprisingly high on lizard people. Get on the wrong train at the wrong time and, to paraphrase the Beatles, bang, bang, Mahogany's silver hammer comes down upon your head. I think he deserves to have it seen by the largest audience possible. [5], Initially, The Midnight Meat Train was set for a May 16, 2008, release but was delayed. MahoganyThe ButcherThe Subway SlaughtererLeon Kaufman After being held at gunpoint by Maya, she advises the Mahogany survivor (so far at least) to take the midnight train where she'll find the whereabouts of Jurgis, being careful not to specify what condition he'll be in. Im not here to make you laugh. The horror thriller, The Midnight Meat Train stars Bradley Cooper (Wedding Crashers, TVs Alias), Vinnie Jones (X-Men: The Last Stand, Snatch), Brooke Shields (Nip/Tuck), and Leslie Bibb (the upcoming Trick r Treat, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby).Also starring are Roger Bart (Hostel: Part II, TVs Desperate Housewives), Peter Jacobson (Good Night, and Good Luck), Barbara Eve Harris (TVs Prison Break), and UFC mixed martial arts fighter Quinton Rampage Jackson.Midnight Meat Train is directed by critically acclaimed Japanese director Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, Azumi, Sky High) in his American debut, and based on legendary horror writer Clive Barkers popular, eponymous short story from his classic Books of Blood collection. And I wanted to go dont ask me where this comes from but I wanted to go there on a bus. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. I love the original story and admire Clive Barker and I said to them, I would love to do this, but I cannot believe the script is going to be any good. Sometimes it's pure old-fashioned exploitation, with high-pressure bursts of bloodshed, eyeballs being scooped out of sockets, bones being twisted, etc. The Ending Of The Midnight Meat Train Explained. I liked her character and felt the death was pointless and didn't make any sense. Why does Leon not murder the conductor? The conductor of the train enters the car, advising Leon and Maya to "Please step away from the meat." He wanted to do what I wanted to do, which was to respect Clive Barkers original material. Read our extensive list of rules for more information on other types of posts like fan-art and self-promotion, or message the moderators if you have any questions. They looked weak, cumbersome and diseased. Plain and simple. That's it! He dispatches his prey wordlessly, and with an unnatural strength. 6-7/10 Worth a watch. Much like Clive Barker's other beloved adapted tale, "Candyman," this is another urban legend being brought to the surface (by a photographer, no less) and ignored by the powers that be. A photographer's obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer who stalks late night commuters, ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways. I just got fitted for these contact lenses which will drain blood out, so, you know, it really is going to look like my eyes are pouring blood. He said they lived long before humans, so why do they need to eat humans? A well-dressed, barrel-chested man enters the New York City subway at midnight and stalks the late-night passengers of a subway train. Why did the conductor kill Maya in the end? His investigation leads him to a butcher named Mahogany, whom he suspects has been killing subway passengers for the past three years. It seems to make sense, thought it was just a result of being the executioner of monsters, perhaps a kind of disease from them. After boarding the train and indicating that we are actually seeing the first death shown at the beginning of the film, we can see that Leon has been appointed as the new Subway Butcher with a host of new bodies to deliver before the train takes off down the track. 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 interest from prominent art gallerist Susan Hoff (Brooke Shields), she propels him to get grittier and show . Leon is a photographer who wants to capture unique gritty shots of the city. That's why I ended up buying twenty Pinheads, I told the producer and I told Clive, that we're going to have to create something. 1 Hour 42 Minutes. So thats where it all began.. Various locations, including the L.A. Metro subway system, were used instead. - midnight meat train barnacles . Most Mahoganys aside of him however seem to follow the same trait: they don't view their job as something personal, the only do it knowing they have no other choice left, and certainly do not enjoy their work. We thought that might get the main character of the same burrs at the end of the film, but not really showing. Freddie Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Pinhead, and that's it! box office). | He wasnt doing anything like the things that were happening in The Midnight Meat Train. But he was getting a little bit of press. 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.. Leon, unaware of Maya's involvement, finally decides to put an end to the butcher's crimes. Satisfying the audience -- or even telling a coherent story -- appears to have been much less of a concern and that's why many viewers will leave THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN feeling as if they've just had a heaping helping of Grade-A turkey. because his reason for living is essentially gone, and his new purpose is now to take the butchers place and keep the forces of evil at bay for all of the world. He wears a ring on his finger, adorned with an eight pointed star. 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. So the butcher, the cop and the conductor are in some secret society that feeds the monsters? The film currently holds a73% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes, where it was deemed by many as a cult classic in the making, and even leftVariety's Rob Nelsonmaking comparisons to the Rutger Hauer-starred horror "The Hitcher.". Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Leon follows Mahogany onto the last subway train of the night, only to witness a bloodbath. Ramsey says I write in Technicolor I like things to come out and grab me, I like my horror in 3D. 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. In the late 1990s, Mark Pavia and Jack ODonnell put together a treatment but timings worked against it being made. 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 and writes off secondary characters 30 minutes in, and is more focused on Leon descending into madness and ultimately hell. Edit. 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