#TheDollarTheater #TheMidnightMeatTrainSubscribe to All Out Action here - https://bit.ly/3zeFlgkLionsgate Official Website - https://bit.ly/3uEkGkdFollow Lionsgate on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3y3LGvyFollow Lionsgate on Facebook - https://bit.ly/3bhliotFollow Lionsgate on TikTok - https://bit.ly/3y3JjZVWelcome to The Dollar Theaters official YouTube channel! This is a very, very intense movie; there are no jokes in this movie: this is the real thing. 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.. It's the lengthy list of producers and executive producers listed in the credits, a whopping 15 in all. Shooting was moved to Los Angeles, due to the prohibitive cost of shooting in New York City. It was just a good combination.. We went to a number of places together, recalls Clive fondly. The violent scenes lose a considerable part of their impact here. All I have to say is that this movie is very underrated, as I am seeing the Box Office (15 mill. 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. The first thing I told Clive was, You've got to stop letting Hollywood make shit movies out of your great novels. Clive has a great imagination and it takes high motivation and effort to translate that imagination onto the screen. You ever seen that? The Midnight Meat Train, is so ridiculous, its the King of all horror movies Look, you see me, right, and I get two passengers on the train, I hook them up and I skin them you actually see me skinning them, pulling the skins off of human beings. The film's original director, Patrick Tatopoulos, originally planned to shoot the film in 2005 in New York City and Montreal. The calculated murders in The Midnight Meat Train are scary to watch because of their slice-and-dice brutality (Mahogany seems to view humans as cattle made to slaughter, and he treats them as such) but even more unsettling is where the violence takes place: on a subway in one of the busiest cities in the world. At the same time, this would be, 1971, something like that, there was some kind of slasher guy going around the trains. And don't forget that he was already obsessed with Mahogany's work before that whole underground monster deal. Rent $3.99. The conductor appears, advising Leon and Maya to "step away from the meat." The movie is about a eleite secret society that uses serial killers to sacrafice people to there reptilian overlords underground. The kind of horror that is all suggestion, and undertow, and the its what you dont see that terrifies you kind of stuff, that doesnt do a thing for me. He wanted to do what I wanted to do, which was to respect Clive Barkers original material. Hobby After narrowly escaping a meeting with Mahogany's mallet (say that two times fast), Maya goes straight to the police to report that New York has a serial killer in spiffy attire and has train timetables stretching back hundreds of years to back it up. Buy $7.99. What are the monsters in the subway station? The thing is, I dont just push the gore, I push everything. Leon is intrigued by the mystery, and begins to investigate newsreels about similar disappearances. 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. "[11], IGN said, "Director Ryuhei Kitamura brings an incredible level of polish and visual sophistication to what is essentially a mid-range script. Edit, No they aren't. I think of my stories as having happy endings, perversely enough, because they very often end with scenes of revelation of one kind or another: characters understanding themselves and realising why they need fresh meaning in their lives. There's an energy to the film's final 10 minutes that's unmatched in recent horror films, and Kitamura's penchant for hard-hitting action, while suitably controlled, is always just below the surface. "[12] Twitch Film said, "On most counts, The Midnight Meat Train succeeds. Jurgis, hung from a meat hook, dies when he is gutted. The conductor of the train enters the car, advising Leon and Maya to "Please step away from the meat." I liked her character and felt the death was pointless and didn't make any sense. Hes a fantastic visual director. Then, on page 12, Clive hit them with The Midnight Meat Train.. People will find it, and whether they find it in midnight shows or they find it on DVD, theyll find it, and in the end the Joe Drakes of the world will disappear.". Second of all, it's been long since we've seen a classic slash/horror movie that lives to the definition SLASH/HORROR. The only down side for me is the ending, which lost me a bit, altho it's a logical one, since the meat could not be found anywhere. The Midnight Me 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 bloodfest. He doesn't kill her at the end. Ke Huy Quan: From the Coolest Kid of the Mid-80s to the Jake Gyllenhaal & Conor McGregor in "ROAD HOUSE" Are Steven Seagal movies just money laundering vehicles? More than 80 changes were made in order to take the refreshingly raw uncompromisingness off. Winkelen op rubriek. I am an admin of this site. Finally, why did his girlfriend have to die exactly? Submissions should be for the purpose of informing or initiating a discussion, not just to entertain readers. I mean, the whole movie revolves around men chasing meat. If you are going to edit a lot, then make yourself a user and login. Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, Barbara Eve Harris as Detective Lynn Hadley. But so far he's fucking scary, yeah, and visually he's great. "The next time you find yourself at the heart of the city, stay put, be brave, keep shooting," Susan advised, and Leon is apparently a man who'll stop at nothing to please a potential patron. Mahogany, also known as simply The Butcher, is the main antagonist of Books of Blood Volume 1 short story The Midnight Meat Train, later adapted into a 2008 horror film of the same name. Ramsey was twenty-one then. ", Cinematical called the film "easily the best Clive Barker adaptation since the first Hellraiser film," saying that "screenwriter Jeff Buhler manages to maintain the sly sense of dread that permeates the best of Barker's horror tales." ", MTV - Clive Barker Blasts Lionsgate Chief Over Midnight Meat Train, Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Midnight_Meat_Train&oldid=1119700924, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 2 November 2022, at 23:39. With Maya unconscious, Leon stabs his enemy in the neck with one of the many, many bones available, leaving the man-monster to smile with a mouthful of blood. DVD and Blu-ray releases followed on July 14. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes has a 72% approval rating based on 32 reviews. [4] Shooting began March 18, 2007. If this is the kind of quality material that Kitamura's going to deliver in Hollywood, I hope he stays there. I dont like half-measures. are better than this movie. Mahogany is not a person, but a job/title protected by the highest government in United States of America. Mahogany, in a battered and bleeding state, returns, barely alive, and engages in a death struggle with Leon, who finishes the job at last by impaling the psychotic butcher's skull on a blade. There is a twist at the end its the reason why Im doing it. And a little scary. When Maya is searching through Mahogany's bathroom, at one point the white t-shirt of a crew member is visible in the mirror. The talk was called, I believe, Why Horror? The question needed no answer as far as I was concerned (except possibly: Why Not?). A passenger walks by Mahogany (Vinnie Jones) who has no idea what's about to happen to him. 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. 140 seconds in comparison to the Unrated Director's Cut. I don't see how something as weak as them could wipe out the human race, to be honest. Horror Film Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. When I was fifteen, he came to my school to deliver an informal talk on his passion for horror in the cinema and on the printed page. Keep killing suitable victims that enter the subway lines and feed their corpses to the City Fathers. 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. Why does Leon not murder the conductor? 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. Why is Leon so willing to put his life (and sanity) on the line? A concerned Maya and her friend Jurgis examine Leon's photos of Mahogany, leading them to the killer's apartment. Various locations, including the L.A. Metro subway system, were used instead. 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.. No punches are pulled. The monsters that have just had a feeding frenzy have been down here long before the subways were even built, and the bodies are an offering to keep it that way. 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? Is the conductor even human? To me the answer is:Vegans,vegans would love this..Even the main character Leon is a vegan. i think to take away his will. Were on the train and I have to keep throwing it in there. I like imagining horrors in detail. 7 minutes to secure a "Not under 18" rating. What normal human being just cuts some woman's heart out and eat a man's tongue? Horror. Full Name He is a merciless serial killer that has the peculiarity for commiting his horrid acts on subway lines, always hacking openthe bodies of his victims and hanging them from their feet on the holding handles. Emboldened, he heads into the city's subway system at night, where he takes pictures of an impending sexual assault before saving the woman. I never wanted to drop the ball in terms of Leons journey throughout the film. 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.". But he had friends everywhere. 1 killer he used to be and is weakening. [6] Ultimately, the film's release on August 1 was limited to the secondary market, of which only 100 screens showed it, with plans for a quick release on DVD. Im like Dont get too much blood on me! Ryuhei has been great, the man speaks good English its harder to understand Bradley Cooper!, From day one, says Ryuhei, I've told Clive we have to create a new icon of horror heroes, cause there is none right? If youve ever seen Versus or any of his other Japanese-language films, hes just an unbelievable director. Shooting was moved to Los Angeles, due to the prohibitive cost of shooting in New York City. Bradley Cooper, meanwhile, found himself immediately in the zone: I was excited to work with Vinnie because I was a huge fan and very frightened of him I was a fan of his from Lock, Stock and when they said he was going to be the villain, I was very excited because I love physical stuff and I knew we had a huge fight scene at the end. Why do they feed them? The killer walks onto the midnight train, and turns his head to reveal that the new butcher is Leon. About Lakeshore Entertainment: Founded in 1994 by Chairman and CEO Tom Rosenberg, Lakeshore is the Academy Award winning producer of Million Dollar Baby and producer of such hits as the Underworld franchise, Exorcism of Emily Rose, Crank, Shes the Man, Runaway Bride and Arlington Road. Like Freddie's claw, Jason's machete, whatever. 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. Evil-doer "[13], Cinematical called the film "easily the best Clive Barker adaptation since the first Hellraiser film," saying that "screenwriter Jeff Buhler manages to maintain the sly sense of dread that permeates the best of Barker's horror tales. #TheDollarTheater #TheMidnightMeatTrainSubscribe to All Out Actio. The job of the Mahogany is to find 'quality' people (mostly healthy and athletic), and murder them using short range weapons on the subway lines. Plain and simple. | Human body parts are ripped, thrown, and used as weapons. Leon attacks the murderer with a knife, and the two fight in between the swinging human flesh. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. 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. It has been a long time since a major horror film has been given such loving treatment by its director. Producer Joe Daley, a long-time friend of Buhler's, brought the two writers together and helped develop the script, along with producers Anthony DiBlasi and Jorge Saralegui, for their and Clive Barker's production company Midnight Picture Show, which was responsible for Book of Blood, the next film adaptation from the anthology of short stories that spawned The Midnight Meat Train. Also, why did Leon just Give up and take the Butcher's place? Other than that, enjoy Villains Wiki!!! Writing in May 1983, he issued an eloquent but heartfelt warning to curious readers: and, with particular emphasis on one story, he noted. Literally, big gallons of blood. For those not familiar with the source material (as it seems many of the 1-star reviews obviously are not), the film is based on Clive Barker's short story of the same name, which appears in the first volume of the Books of Blood anthology. MEAT wobbles all over the place, never settling on a consistent tone or style. After breaking into the butcher's home, Jurgis is captured, and brutally killed. The mark on the chest was to signify that Leon was chosen by the fathers to become the new butcher. 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. 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 You wont find any gentle, soft, entertaining, just for the sake of it horror here. No, I thnk your interpretation of the movie is based on confirmation bias. - midnight meat train barnacles . For me it was completely a turning point because suddenly this seemed within reach Ramseys presence in the world validated the possibility that I might try it., Ramsey himself recalled the school visit when introducing a later edition of the Books of Blood, saying, I cant now recall much of what I rather clumsily said, but I remember the delight of the sixteen-year-olds when I pointed out that one might take Machens White Powder to deal with venereal disease, and the dismayed retreat of some members of the teaching staff when I played Zappas parody of Schoenberg from Absolutely Free. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. 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 . [9], Barker was angry with Lionsgate's treatment, believing the studio's president Joe Drake to be shortchanging other people's films to focus more attention on films like The Strangers, where he received a producing credit: "The politics that are being visited upon it have nothing to do with the movie at all. He was an inveterate traveller I think one of those people who liked to reinvent himself when he went places: he could tell monstrous lies about himself! Personnel changes at Lionsgate though caused the eventual release plans to attract Clives well-publicised ire as the anticipated wide theatrical release became a contractual minimum of just 100 screens, appearing on 1 August 2008. 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. Hostel? Every member is disposable and replaceable, makingthem the biggest scapegoats in the world. The Midnight Meat Train is an excellent horror movie. I think the main character would make it. The film starts off with a bang, as we watch a passenger awaken from his slumber on a late-night subway train. The conductor brings Leon's attention to Maya, who has been knocked unconscious and is lying on a pile of bones. I like to be excited. Thats the part of acting I dont like. Leon and Maya leave the carriage into the cavern. The DC remains the dominant version worldwide. Creative harmony restored, he set to work and the movie was shot in early 2007. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. After a brief scuffle with Mahogany, Leon passes out on the train. I wrote a sequel, but it was a cannibal movie and they were all horrified by it. Jeff Buhler took the conductors seat for this journey of the Meat Train. Then they killed Maya so Leon had nobody to fall back on and had nothing else to live for. Boston was amazing But I wanted to see New York. Metacritic Reviews. No punches are pulled. When my stuff is bloody, its very bloody; but when my stuff is sexy, its very sexy; when its funny its very ludicrous. The difference here, of course, is that Hadley is fully aware of the activities. Leon heads to a hidden subway entrance in the slaughterhouse, arming himself with several knives. Mahogany And Leon Fight In The Pit Of Bones | The Midnight Meat Train The Dollar Theater 571K subscribers Subscribe 17 Share 2.6K views 6 months ago Leon and Mahogany fight brutally in a. At gunpoint, Hadley directs her to take the midnight train to find Jurgis. The work must be done obligatorily on the subway since it is the only connection to the Fathers' lair. The gore factor is selling point to the genre crowd, and they don't have to worry. Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura ("Versus"), "The Midnight Meat Train" is that rarest of horror film that is likely to please both gorehounds and fans of old school horror. What remains to date though, is a fiercely inventive and groundbreaking classic of short fiction that changed the horror genre in the early 1980s and continues to shock and inspire, and a work of cinematic vision that captures both the punch and undertow of the source material, while expanding it in fresh and original directions for a modern audience. After narrowly escaping a meeting with Mahogany's mallet (say that two times fast), Maya goes straight to the police to report that New York has a serial killer in spiffy attire and has train timetables stretching back hundreds of years to back it up. Sometimes it's pure old-fashioned exploitation, with high-pressure bursts of bloodshed, eyeballs being scooped out of sockets, bones being twisted, etc. 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. Instead, it was part of a longer observation that others at the convention, such as Peter Straub and Douglas Winter, were talking in glowing terms about these new Books of Blood, an indication to King that something was about to happen He said Well, I havent read this guy, but from what I understand its like what [Jon Landau] said I have seen the future of rock-and-roll, and his name is Bruce Springsteen. Sounds like Clive Barker might be the future of horror., Clive shakes his head even today with something approaching disbelief, He said, God bless him, that I was the future of horror. 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. What are the barnacles doing on Mahogany's chest in Midnight Meat Train? HD. The next day, he discovers she has gone missing. He dispatches his prey wordlessly, and with an unnatural strength. Is it bad to write full-screen, or is there a deeper meaning? 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. budget, 3 mill. Detective Hadley hands the train schedule to the new butcher, who wears a ring with the symbol of the group that feeds the creatures. After Leon stabs a broken femur through his throat, Mahogany only grins in his dying throes, saying, "Welcome!". I felt that it would also give us the visual tool to observe Mahogany, and what he does., Patrick Tatopoulos was the first director attached to the project. This is all about ego, and though I mourn the fact that The Midnight Meat Train was never given its chance in theaters, it's a beautifully stylish, scary movie, and it isn't going anywhere. Overall, Midnight Meat Train is a simple, bloody, hardcore offering certain to satisfy fans of the genre. 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). We thought that might get the main character of the same burrs at the end of the film, but not really showing. If you are 18 years or older or are comfortable with graphic material, you are free to view this page. So thats where it all began.. 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. 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. 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. 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. That's it! I made notes when I got back to Boston. He lived in Boston and he worked, at that time, for The Boston Globe. 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. I don't remember if the film clarifies this, but the short story explains that the under dwellers are the secret rulers of the city, so the motivations and details are best taken on an allegorical level (as representing secret government or cabals a la Illuminati and Freemasonry - or just ruling classes in general and their tendency to feed off the citizenry). 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. We designed it they showed me a bunch of hammers and none of them were it has to be A weapon is, you know it should be very iconic right? 1977 - The Other Side of Midnight. Very scary, oh so cool. Each producer on a film is there to add his or her own input and advice. Neither do we. This is not only a horror film, it's a love story a tragic love story. Leon Kauffman: I've got a train to catch. Are the HongKong Version and Thai Version uncensored? When Hadley presses Maya to return the timetables, she demands answers. Third, the style is beautiful, dark atmosphere, quite dialog, gothic colours. There's an energy to the film's final 10 minutes that's unmatched in recent horror films, and Kitamura's penchant for hard-hitting action, while suitably controlled, is always just below the surface. It's a well done movie, it's just that IT MADE NO FUCKING SENSE, especially the last point on my list! The first, obviously, is that hes a fellow Liverpudlian, and the second is that hes the first writer I met. 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. Why did the conductor kill Maya in the end? He wasnt doing anything like the things that were happening in The Midnight Meat Train. But he was getting a little bit of press. I was asleep on the train, and when it ground to a halt, one of the guards shoved me awake and said, This is as far as we go kid; get off. It was midnight. He picks up Leon, and with the same supernatural strength as the deceased butcher, rips out Leon's tongue, throwing him to the ground and eating the tongue. The things that eat people are called the fathers. 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