So this Mahogany is of course he's very creepy, very weird, very scary but at the same time he's very super cool. I like ghost train rides and bad Italian horror movies!. Midnight Meat Train (2008) R Horror Crime Documentary Mystery Thriller Director: Ryuhei Kitamura Release Date: August 7, 2008 Cast: Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, Vinnie Jones,. So we kind of designed a super cool hammer and he kills with that. So the butcher, the cop and the conductor are in some secret society that feeds the monsters? What are the monsters in the subway station? With an estimated budget of $15 million (via The Numbers), the film drew in a poor box-office result of $3.5 million (via Box Office Mojo), was released in only 100 U.S. theaters before quickly going to DVD, but was met with a welcoming reception from critics. 2008. Shooting began March 18, 2007. The film's original director, Patrick Tatopoulos, originally planned to shoot the film in 2005 in New York City and Montreal. 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. And there, I think, is a story with a perfect happy ending he goes through hell and he comes through on the other side, utterly changed, utterly transformed.. 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.. Midnight Meat Train: Mahogany's Tale: With Vinnie Jones. Anyway, as far as I understand things, the butcher and the conductor feed people to these lizard zombie alien things. When I was penniless, he brought me over to America, on his own dime, which was incredibly sweet of him. 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. I wrote a sequel, but it was a cannibal movie and they were all horrified by it. The Green Line runs red. No one can accuse him of being too discriminating:. Unfortunately too many producers, directors and writers just want to do it the easy way. i think to take away his will. A well-dressed, barrel-chested man enters the New York City subway at midnight and stalks the late-night passengers of a subway train. Very scary, oh so cool. Most Innacurate based on a true story movie ever? 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. 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. Jurgis, hung from a meat hook, dies when he is gutted. Sometimes it's pure old-fashioned exploitation, with high-pressure bursts of bloodshed, eyeballs being scooped out of sockets, bones being twisted, etc. It seems to make sense, thought it was just a result of being the executioner of monsters, perhaps a kind of disease from them. 1 Hour 42 Minutes. I dont like half-measures. The film currently holds a 71% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes; the consensus states: "A creative and energetic adaptation of a Clive Barker short story, with enough scares and thrills to be a potential cult classic.". He is criticized constantly by other photographers for fleeing danger before shooting a full reel. Shooting was moved to Los Angeles, due to the prohibitive cost of shooting in New York City. Submissions should be for the purpose of informing or initiating a discussion, not just to entertain readers. By using our Services, you agree to our use of cookies. A passenger walks by Mahogany (Vinnie Jones) who has no idea what's about to happen to him. 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. As publicity, the press were given a series of on-set stills and the following details: Next stop, death.When his latest body of work provocative, nighttime studies of the city and its inhabitants - earns struggling photographer Leon Kaufman (Bradley Cooper) interest from a prominent art gallerist (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 hes finally on track for success, Leons 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, Leons 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. It would have climaxed with a meeting of all the stations, all of the lines. Hi. His investigation leads him to a butcher named Mahogany, whom he suspects has been killing subway passengers for the past three years. It's visually engrossing, the acting and story are (mostly) solid and it has a great lead villain in Vinnie Jones. The movie is fucking great, he fumed, and its not right to stop horror fans whove been looking forward to seeing the picture from seeing it on the big screen. Books of Blood I was originally going to direct Candyman 2, Rose has been quoted as saying. He wasnt doing anything like the things that were happening in The Midnight Meat Train. But he was getting a little bit of press. 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. Occupation Tapping into tourist terrors of gett When Maya is searching through Mahogany's bathroom, at one point the white t-shirt of a crew member is visible in the mirror. Walking through the derelict station, they notice piles of bones, and remnants of a world stretching back centuries, before a final battle between Mahogany (who is still alive) and Leon ensues. THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN (director: Ryuhei Kitamura; screenwriters: Jeff Buhler/based on the short story by Clive Barker; cinematographer: Jonathan Sela; editor: Toby Yates; music: Robb Williamson, Johannes Kobilke; cast: Bradley Cooper (Leon), Leslie Bibb (Maya), Brooke Shields (Susan Hoff), Vinnie Jones (Mahogany), Roger Bart (Jurgis), Tony Curran (Driver), Ted Raimi (Randle Cooper), Barbara . bear with me as its been a while since ive seen this movie but i did love itso here goes What are the monsters in the subway station? What normal human being would just start doing that? I never got that. Leon heads to the hidden subway entrance in the slaughterhouse, arming himself with several slaughterhouse knives, and wearing a butcher's apron. 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? Clive claims that he was bespectacled and overweight, but I remember him as he is now, wiry and bright-eyed and impatient to be astonished.Readers of the first Books of Blood who pressed on after Ramseys two page introduction, found that its author first offered The Book of Blood itself, a set-up story to explain the wide array of styles, genres and voices in the tales that were to follow, setting them as stories written on the body of Simon McNeal. The gore factor is selling point to the genre crowd, and they don't have to worry. Stepping back on board The Midnight Meat Train today, its clear that this brutal but lyrical short story retains a narrative power that has not been dimmed by time. The conductor does. Verkopen; Mijn . Melee expertiseBrute strengthHigh durabilityCombat skills It's a very thin line because if he goes too cool, it doesn't work. The conductor brings Leon's attention to Maya, who has been knocked unconscious and is lying on a pile of bones. I made notes when I got back to Boston. He was portrayed by Vinnie Jones, who also playedJuggernautin hisX-Men: Last Standmovie incarnation,DrakeinEscape Plan,Danny Brickwellin ArrowTV series,Sebastian Moranin his ElementaryTV series incarnation andRommelinGarfield: A Tail of Two Kitties. I didn't like the movie,I wish the movie was "banned" just imagine a young child seeing this?In history serial killers and murders e.t.c.Were motivated by such movies,book of blood,hills has eyes e.t.c. Thinking about the influence he wanted to exert on readers, Clive had set down some (ultimately unpublished) thoughts towards his own possible introduction. I know that this is too good to be true. But they sent me the script and it was excellent. [5], Initially, The Midnight Meat Train was set for a May 16, 2008, release but was delayed. No other movie in the past twenty years reached that level of an icon right? A police official then directs Maya to a trip on the midnight train. 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. Were on the train and I have to keep throwing it in there. Metro Station - 7th & Flower Streets, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA. Mahogany grins in his dying throes, speaking the single word "Welcome!". Otherwise, you should close this page and view another page. The true purpose of the abandoned station is revealed, as reptilian creatures enter the car and consume the bodies of the murdered passengers. So my mission was extremely hard but it was also very simple: make something better than Hellraiser and Candyman. The goal of /r/Movies is to provide an inclusive place for discussions and news about films with major releases. Why is Leon so willing to put his life (and sanity) on the line? Finally, Mahogany is thrown out of the train by Leon, but not long before it hits its final stop. Leon takes matters into his own hands, entering the subway train at midnight, only to witness a shocking bloodbath, as the butcher kills several passengers, then hangs them on meat hooks. 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. He notices something odd about the empty train and gets up to investigate the compartments, but he stumbles and falls on his back in a pool of blood. 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. In fact, the three slim books with their curious photographic covers made little initial impression on the general public but they did start to gain a reputation as something fresh and startling among specialist horror and fantasy circles. What are the barnacles doing on Mahogany's chest in Midnight Meat Train? The Midnight Meat Train is a 2008 American horror 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. Barker was angry with Lionsgate's treatment, believing that the studio's president Joe Drake is essentially shortchanging other people's films in order 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. I'm not even remotely kidding. In general, Barker shuns concrete, explicable reasons for his stories. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. I think the main character would make it. It's not clear whether it serves another function besides showing he's very sick. In the infamous 1975 melodrama MAHOGANY, Diana Ross played an ambitious designer who soared to supermodel status when she changed her name to Mahogany and began mingling with the jet set. You wont find any gentle, soft, entertaining, just for the sake of it horror here. 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. Leon is a vegan amateur photographer who wants to find unique spots of the NYC landscape to shoot, and at the advice of his contractor heads into the city's subway system at night. Keep killing suitable victims that enter the subway lines and feed their corpses to the City Fathers. The thing is, I dont just push the gore, I push everything. "[12] Twitch Film said, "On most counts, The Midnight Meat Train succeeds. Leon attempts to turn some of the photos he has taken of Mahogany in to the police, but they refuse to believe him, and instead cast suspicion on his own motives in photographing the victims. Neither do we. 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