When I was penniless, he brought me over to America, on his own dime, which was incredibly sweet of him. 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. Halloween? A passenger walks by Mahogany (Vinnie Jones) who has no idea what's about to happen to him. More than 80 changes were made in order to take the refreshingly raw uncompromisingness off. Why is Leon so willing to put his life (and sanity) on the line? Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 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? It is my best film to date and I am proud of myself, my crew, my cast and my producers., Clives appeal to Lionsgate and the clamour from fans for a wider theatrical release went unheeded but the DVD release went some way to appeasing his anger, adding two and a half minutes of additional footage as well as three featurettes and an audio commentary.The enduring disappointment for Clive, though, was that the movies strangled release effectively ended a grander cinematic vision: It frustrates me because we would have had a trilogy out of this. Mahogany, battered, fights to the death with Leon. 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. The Midnight Meat Train is a 2008 mystery horror-thriller film based on Clive Barker's 1984 short story of the same name, which can be found in Volume One of Barker's collection Books of Blood. 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. I know that this is too good to be true. But they sent me the script and it was excellent. to satiate their hunger so they dont come up to the surface and run rampant and kill everyone..its like a sacrifice. The movie isnt special effects driven, but there are a lot of effects in the final reel physical effects, not CGI effects. 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. MEAT wobbles all over the place, never settling on a consistent tone or style. His investigation leads him to a butcher named Mahogany, whom he suspects has been killing subway passengers for the past three years. Based on the short story from Barker's 1984 novella "Books of Blood," the film saw Cooper as Leon, a struggling photographer who, to win a big deal with an art exhibitionist (Brooke Shields), wanders the dark nights of New York to get the winning pictures. Boston was amazing But I wanted to see New York. Buy $7.99. Feeding the City Fathers. La fascination de Leon pour Mahogany va le conduire de plus en plus loin dans les mandres du mtro, au coeur mme du mal. Come for the ONE DOLLAR MOVIES, stay to enjoy clips of all your favorites. 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. | I made notes when I got back to Boston. Leon attacks the murderer with a knife, and the two fight in between the swinging human flesh. What purpose does her death serve to the plot, and why was she killed in that weird sacrificial way? 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. The first, obviously, is that hes a fellow Liverpudlian, and the second is that hes the first writer I met. As to why he'd agree to serve them, it seemed as though the combination of losing his tongue, watching a loved one die, and discovering a race of man-eating creatures wrecked his brain. The difference here, of course, is that Hadley is fully aware of the activities. [5], Initially, The Midnight Meat Train was set for a May 16, 2008, release but was delayed. That's it! The conductor brings Leon's attention to Maya, who has been knocked unconscious and is lying on a pile of bones. In the short story there are also cleaners who clean up the blood in the train. I think the main character would make it. The film's original director, Patrick Tatopoulos, originally planned to shoot the film in 2005 in New York City and Montreal. Overall, The Midnight Meat Train is a simple, bloody, hardcore offering certain to satisfy fans of the genre." Together, they agree on the bright idea of tracking down Mahogany's home and breaking in with the full hope absolutely nothing terrible will happen. 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. The violent scenes lose a considerable part of their impact here. Special makeup effects are being created by Oscar winner Matthew Mungle (Dracula, Schindlers List).Midnight Meat Train is a production of Lakeshore Entertainment and will be released in North America by Lionsgate. 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. While taking pictures of the subway, he encounters Mahogany (Vinnie Jones, SNATCH), a vicious killer who preys on subway riders. That provides Leon with some startling subject matter, to say the least, and the shutterbug continues to stalk Mahogany, despite the obvious jeopardy involved. 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 Working with Clive, he was a great mentor for me. 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. But so far he's fucking scary, yeah, and visually he's great. It was a long time ago but I knew I wanted to get off an old Greyhound bus at Port Authority, which is what we did Bill had lots of business in New York and I was on my own, which was wonderful. Ramsey was twenty-one then. 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. 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.. 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. 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. No punches are pulled. CC. Ryuhei then came recommended., The first time I met him, says Jeff, I knew we were kind of like-minded people. 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. 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 Midnight Me With these words, the true purpose of the underground station is revealed, as horrible reptilian creatures enter the car, consuming the meat. | He said they lived long before humans, so why do they need to eat humans? It was just a good combination.. The long, arduous and often troubled, but ultimately celebrated, journey from Clives writing desk in 1981 to the big screen in 2008 is captured in the pages of this excellently conceived book. Submissions should be for the purpose of informing or initiating a discussion, not just to entertain readers. 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. 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. 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. Since they can only eat human flesh and they're too physically weak to hunt for themselves, the Mahogany is an important job to prevent the Fathers from dying, as they control the country. I was 19, maybe 20 years old. Ryuhei himself was equally impressed with Jeff: Twenty years ago I read The Midnight Meat Train and it left a real impression on me. Obviously, he argued, the reputation doesnt bear out on a reading of the books. It was the same amount of pressure as any job of that complexity would demand, he says. In its official North American release, the film opened in one hundred two discount theaters, also called "dollar theaters" for their very low admission prices, rather than at regular first-run cinemas with normal ticket prices, which was a factor in its poor opening weekend box-office earnings. Hobby New Poster for M. Night Shyamalan's 'Knock at the Cabin', Press J to jump to the feed. A completely empty station. Reptilians. 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. Overall, Midnight Meat Train is a simple, bloody, hardcore offering certain to satisfy fans of the genre. No, I thnk your interpretation of the movie is based on confirmation bias. He's determined to impress snobby gallery owner Susan Hoff (Brooke Shields), who once dismissed Leon's work as "arresting yet empty.". Leon attacks the murderer with a knife, beginning a climactic battle between the photographer and the butcher. Leon's involvement quickly turns into a dark obsession, upsetting his waitress girlfriend Maya, who is as disbelieving of his story as the police chief. its likethe needs of the many outweigh the needs of the fewso myas death was just one where as the whole planet or whatever would have been the end result. He doesn't kill her at the end. Inspired perhaps by having signed the contract for Demons by Daylight, I ended with a rallying call: Horror is all we have not yet come to terms with.. The most intriguing elements of the story involve the slow deterioration of the mind and morals of photographer Leon Kaufman (Cooper) as he becomes increasingly obsessed with the silent, hulking Mahogany, who roams the underbelly of Los Angeles by night, looking for victims. It's the lengthy list of producers and executive producers listed in the credits, a whopping 15 in all. Plain and simple. He picks up Leon and, with the same supernatural strength as the deceased butcher, rips out Leon's tongue and eats it. 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? Maya and Jurgis were both written off the theatrical cut, and the whole hotel room search was cut, so are their murders. And don't forget that he was already obsessed with Mahogany's work before that whole underground monster deal. In the book this only happens to Kaufman at the hands of one of the Fathers. 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. Maya goes to the police, but finds that they are as unwilling to consider her story as they were of Leon's. [4] Shooting began March 18, 2007. A police official then directs Maya to a trip on the midnight train. An unknown author of some books of short stories that nobody was buying, Having subsequently read the texts, Kings endorsement became stronger, more personal and snappier, telling Berkley Publishing in April 1985 for the US release of the Books of Blood: I think Clive Barker is so good that I am almost literally tongue-tied. You ever seen that? It's visually engrossing, the acting and story are mostly solid, and it has a great lead villain in Vinnie Jones. One night, in a decision to break this trend, he saves a woman from a gang that is abusing her. The director of photography is Jonathan Sela (2006s The Omen). 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