The Midnight Meat Train Makes a Lot Less Stops

Only genuinely terrible movies deserve this fate, and even then, it's fucked. I can never approve of such a truncated, half-hearted theatrical release, and it reeks of penny pinching, timid executives and creatively bankrupt ad people.

So they're back to calling it MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN again? It was MIDNIGHT TRAIN a few weeks ago! Then again, it was DTV a couple of weeks ago too, wasn't it? Lionsgate - keeping the old-school Miramax spirit alive!

I here tel that Clive Barkers a gaddam cock-smokin' fagget...
m'bees thieres ya reason.

G0ds rath.

Damn shame that this flick is getting dumped. Probably won't even come anywhere near where I live. Looks like I'll have to wait for the proposed October dvd release date. I was soooo hoping to see this on the big screen. The trailer was great.

Not to flame, but I thought the trailer was great, too.....until they showed the name of the movie.

Sounds too porno-ish to me. It is very hard to take a movie title like this too seriously.

Maybe they can release it as a double feature with the also fucked over Mandy Lane. With special bonus fucked over movie Trick 'r Treat.

Friend, that title is almost 30 years old...and if you know the story it conveys a LOT.

But I'm not holding my breath for anything groundbreaking.

The more I think about it, I am an idiot. I read "The Books of Blood" back in high school. I really do not remember this story or any of them.

Time to revisit.

Well, shit. Even if I chuckled a bit at the title, I was kinda looking forward to seeing this. Goddammit. First Trick R' Treat gets raped in the face, now this? I'll be taking a ride in the Waaahmbulance if anyone needs me.

The movie really fleshed out what's an essentially "Overly paranoid guy with vaguely described job runs into a mass murderering psycho on the subway." that made me not sure what to think until I saw the trailer.

Well, the trailer did a really good job selling me, and I'm a little annoyed that Lionsgate, who have been behind some twisted genre films, thinks they have to cut their losses on this.

However, if you don't already know the story, it conveys a lot of something completely different. I'm all for faithfulness to the source but THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN is not a workable title for a movie released in the US, in my opinion. This is the audience's fault.

Damn.
Let's hope it at least gets a decently wide DVD release. Good Barker adaptations are rare.

You realize that Clive Barker is just writing, right? This is a Ryuhei Kitamura film, but thats not to say it won't be good.

Yep.
I meant adaptation of his work, not by him.

Mmmmmmm. . . . I dunno. I know and love the story from having read The Books of Blood many years ago, so I never saw any sexual connotation to the title (until now that is, & I totally get that), but I think Clive Barker is well known enough - particularly in light of the success of the "Hellraiser" franchise - that if you continually tout this as "From the mind of Clive Barker, the man that brought you 'Hellraiser'", "meat" takes on a TOTALLY different meaning; one more in line w/ the content of the film.

Jesus, that's a long sentence.

I love how they're only now deciding to dump this. Did a subway murder horror story called "Midnight Meat Train" sound really marketable last year, or did Steve Beeks just stumble across it last week and go, "wait, we made what?"

Barker speaks out:

http://chud.com/articles/articles/15...KER/Page1.html

well Fangoria said it would be good when they visited the set so it must be true!!!!!!

Frankly, Barker's movie output has been tepid at best(Hellraiser being the exception). I'm more excited for this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0466235/


Haven't read the book, and it sounds like a similar concept(I think), but Irvine Welsh is awesome and having Robert Carlyle attached makes me think it might have a little Trainspotting magic. Also, it's the same director as Ravenous, which I think is a pretty under rated flick.