The Midnight Meat Train 2008 123movies

Watch: The Midnight Meat Train 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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 analyzes 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..
Plot: 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.
Smart Tags: #photographer #subway #butcher #dismemberment #art_gallery #female_detective #beaten_to_death_with_a_hammer #gore #cannibalism #graphic_violence #brutality #slipping_on_blood #stabbed_with_a_bone #execution #conspiracy #tragedy #villain #night #waitress #camera #serial_killer

Find Alternative – The Midnight Meat Train 2008, Streaming Links:

123movies | FMmovies | Putlocker | GoMovies | SolarMovie | Soap2day

Ratings:

	6.0/10 Votes: 65,762
	73% | RottenTomatoes
	58/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 874 Popularity: 23.739 | TMDB

Reviews:

One of the best adaptations of Clive Barker’s stories
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.

Director Ryuhei Kitamura (of “Versus” and “Azumi” fame) offers up one of the year’s most brutally alluring gore fests in his American debut. With the gritty and detailed hard-edge of early 70s horror films (why, hello there Lucio Fulci!), his flair for CGI augmented visuals and the intense seduction of experimental camera-work in a cinematic environment so increasingly sanitised of actual visceral terror, Kitamura refreshes the genre’s ability to unsettle and provoke audiences and jolt jaded horror enthusiasts out of their PG-13 apathy.

Kitamura works with a modest but shrewd sense of space in the decaying subway, the claustrophobic train and the creeping gloom of the city. There’s a certain simpatico between Barker’s distinctive tone and Kitamura’s balls-to-the-wall film-making that compliments each other to the benefit of the film’s atmospheric resilience. The unvarnished horrors cooked down deep in the gallows of the tunnels, plunged into darkness form the basis of Kaufman’s terrible fixation on the disappearing passengers and that indescribably malicious man who stalks the shadows. Mahogany is the film’s myth, the legend of The Butcher. Prepossessing the exactitude of traits essential to the character, Jones has the nasty glint in the eye, the mysterious swagger of indestructibility and the imperative of consuming evil, as well as having the benefit of looking like the quiet guy in the corner of the bar who could take out an entire gang of hoodlums without spilling his drink.

Kitamura’s modulation of the material’s emotional stakes and his slow-burn style of ratcheting up tension gives the story further layers to plunge into, not withstanding Cooper’s unlikely presence as the film’s corruptible protagonist. Jeff Buhler’s screenplay from Barker’s 25-year-old story is uneven at times but keeps an atmospheric dread of hopelessness. Supporting characters include Kaufman’s wife (Leslie Bibb), a counterpoint to the man’s wavering sanity and a threadbare characterisation of his good-humoured pal Jurgis (Roger Bart) who stands to represent Kaufman’s humanity. But even if these emotional contrasts don’t work, the film itself is a tidy and effective meta-slasher that resonates beyond corporeal carnage. Kitamura’s subtextual ingenuity is shown through macabre imagery of animal carcasses hanging off meat hooks as Mahogany tenderises, disembowels and stores his victims just like the morsels of flesh they are.

Clive Barker’s fantastical and mad blend of visceral shocks and profoundly unsettling explorations of worlds coexisting and buried deep within the one we think we understand has become an important component of our contemporary literary and filmic universes. While “The Midnight Meat Train” never hits the spasms of metaphysical despairs in “Hellraiser” or the diabolical mind-warps of “Candyman”, this is forthright horror – simple, powerful and unadulterated.

Come on ride the train, come ride it…
Before you start asking – no, it’s not porn, gay or otherwise, though those were the first words out of my mother’s mouth when I told her I would be going to see this now cult-ish horror movie.

This is another example of Lion’s Gate acting nefarious with their distribution. They probably aren’t as ‘wtf’-like as Fox at the moment, but while they bask in their self-imposed glow of Saw flicks and Jason Statham vehicles, they dumped Midnight Meat Train in a manner not unlike (speaking of Fox) Idiocracy. The film was technically released in about a handful of (i.e. 100) theaters this summer, practically all of them in 1-dollar joints in towns I’ve never heard of and nowhere near my digs in North NJ/NYC. It’s made $34,000 in its theatrical run, which is somewhat impressive considering a) the total lack of any real advertising, either around the “from the mind of Clive Barker” angle or just that it’s a kick-ass-looking horror flick about a guy killing people on trains, and b) it opened in 1-dollar theaters for a very limited run.

So suffice to say it’s a bittersweet coda to this dumped-on movie from Lion’s Gate that it finally screened for two aptly scheduled Midnight screenings at a theater in Manhattan- ironically costing us all about 8 or 9 dollars MORE than it did those lucky dozen or so that caught it a couple of months ago- and at the same time, thankfully, is a worthwhile midnight-movie. Kitamura’s adaptation of the Barker story (un-read by me) is a slight throwback to grisly 80s serial killer flicks (while I couldn’t think of one after it ended, with a friend of mine repeatedly stating “it’s like Saw, only good” which I could understand, I’m sure there are suggestions open to comparison) as it unapologetically takes its time showing us unnecessary killing scenes with lots of blood, gore, meat and Vinnie Jones as the killer. It is, in all actuality, a definite must see for every geeky horror buff you might have ever come across, or are yourself.

It’s about an aspiring photographer (Bradley Cooper) who is trying to impress a chic, artsy curator (Brooke Shields) with his photographs, but she wants more – more of the actual blood and guts and other things that he hasn’t captured yet. After clicking at the right time and right place with a model almost being attacked and raped, she’s finally impressed – but she wants more. This leads Cooper to finding a subject coming out of the subway one night: a man in a business suit, crew-cut, and a stare that could cut glass. This is Vinnie Jones, uttering only one word in his entire performance and thus making it perhaps his most bad-ass yet (which considering that it’s “I’m the Juggernaut, Bitch!”, it’s saying something).

Now, saying that this is a kick-ass genre flick doesn’t exactly mean it’s a very good movie. It’s not. It’s got some pretty blah dialog, the characters are only interesting when serving the (bleeped)-up nature of the plot, and there’s even some poorly shot CGI of the trains moving through the tunnels. You’ll also be saying “wtf” every few seconds in the final act, though that’s a big part of the fun. It’s not for the squeamish: this contains countless bodies strung up by meat-hooks, blood flowing so much that people usually end up slipping hilariously in the train, and even some whacked-out creatures reminiscent of The Descent… only, of course, these wait for their flesh in a slightly different manner, and end up raising some questions for the viewer once it ends.

Midnight Meat Train is kick-ass for all the reasons that people love pointlessly violent horror movies that occasionally feature the likes of Ted Raimi getting beaten to a bloody pulp with a hook. If you are that kind of horror fan, who wanted something aside from complete unintentional hilarity and abhorrent contrivance with the Saw movies and harkon longingly back to crazy butcher-themed flicks (and, perhaps, are looking for some influence of Blowup from time to time), this is for you. It’s certainly, at the least, one of the most overlooked movies in years. 7.5/10

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 38 min (98 min), 1 hr 40 min (100 min) (USA), 1 hr 25 min (85 min) (France), 1 hr 43 min (103 min) (unrated) (USA)
Budget 15000000
Revenue 3533227
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director Ryûhei Kitamura
Writer Jeff Buhler, Clive Barker
Actors Vinnie Jones, Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb
Country United States, United Kingdom
Awards 2 wins & 6 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Company 3 (digital intermediate), DeLuxe, USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Fuji Eterna 250T 8553, Eterna 400T 8583)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)