The Midnight Meat Train
for sequences of strong bloody gruesome violence, grisly images involving nudity, sexual content and language.
| Moral Rating: | not reviewed |
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| Primary Audience: | Adults |
| Genre: | Horror Crime Action Mystery |
| Length: | 1 hr. 25 min. |
| Year of Release: | 2008 |
| USA Release: |
August 1, 2008 (limited—100 screens) DVD: February 17, 2009 |
| Featuring |
Bradley Cooper Vinnie Jones Leslie Bibb Brooke Shields Tony Curran Roger Bart Peter Jacobson Dan Callahan See all » |
| Director | Ryuhei Kitamura—“Versus” (2000), “Azumi” (2003), “Godzilla: Final Wars” (2004) |
| Producer |
Clive Barker Peter Block See all » |
| Distributor |
 Lionsgate (Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.) |
Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “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 the darker side of humanity for his upcoming debut at her downtown art space.
Believing he’s finally on track for success, Leon’s obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer, Mahogany (Vinnie Jones), the subway murderer who stalks late-night commuters—ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways imaginable.
With his concerned girlfriend Maya (Leslie Bibb) fearing for his life, Leon’s relentless fascination with Mahogany lures him further and further into the bowels of the subways and ultimately into an abyss of pure evil—inadvertently pulling Maya right along with him.
THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN is directed by Japanese director Ryuhei Kitamura (VERSUS, AZUMI, SKY HIGH) in his American debut, and based on legendary horror writer Clive Barker’s popular, eponymous short story from his classic Books of Blood collection. The screenplay was adapted by Jeff Buhler.”
