Fans of Clive Barker and Ryuhei Kitamura alike have been eagerly anticipating the arrival of Kitamura's film adaptation of Barker's story Midnight Meat Train and the wait has been a very long and troubling one thanks to less than a-list treatment of the film by Lion's Gate. It's getting only a limited theatrical release in the USA while going straight to video here in Canada but that's not the case in other nations. Nope, the film's getting a full PR push in Korea, where they have just released a blood soaked clip from the film. Here's how our very own Ardvark summed up the plot in an earlier post:
The story concerns photographer Leon, played by Bradley Cooper, who is looking for increasingly more ‘gritty’ material. Leon thinks he’s found the perfect subject and starts to follow serial killer Mahogany (yep, Vinnie Jones) who stalks and butchers lone passengers on the nocturnal rides of the London Subway. Which would be creepy enough in itself, but when Leon discovers the horrific truth behind Mahogany’s actions things get really bizarre…
Want to check out the clip? We've got it below the break in the Twitch Player along with the earlier trailer.
The flick itself is intensely blood (even if it's sometimes wanders into CGI gore territory) and it almost NEVER pulls back.
I lived in London for a few years. I remember being up all night at a party once, and getting on the tube at around six in the morning, and being so afraid of falling asleep & missing my stop, that I kept biting my tongue & digging my nails into my legs. It never occurred to me to also be afraid of a serial killer. But now, I guess I was lucky to leave the tube alive. It's a shame Canadians can't see this on the big screen. But then again, at least we have the DVD; if this had been twenty years ago, we might never have seen it at all.
Folks on IMDB are organizing an e-mail or letter-writing campaign to Lions Gate to help encourage a wider release: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805570/board/thread/109019389
When does the DVD hit Canadian shores? This is a must by IMO.