This is too good to pass up. It seems that Lionsgate is going the low key effort when it comes to releasing the much anticipated and highly heralded Repo: The Genetic Opera. So much so, in fact, that most people won’t even have the option of seeing it as it was intended- in a real theater.
At the risk of sounding a bit grumpy “What the !@#$% is the matter with Lionsgate?" First we get no release at all of Midnight Meat Train (which was easily the best American horror film I’ve seen in a long time) and now...
For the lucky few of us in big cities the screenings that will take place are just that much more important to get to. Especially since director Darren Lynn Bousman himself is going to be there for Q &A along with (at least in Chicago) a mystery cast member.
The screening in question will be at the Music Box Theater on Nov 12 at 10:30 pm. Tickets are a measly $15. This is definitely one of the horror events of the year and I am sooooo psyched about attending. I’m also psyched that Bousman has agreed to do a podcast interview with yours truly in support. More on that later.
Starts Friday in Minneapolis at the Lagoon Cinema.
Midnight Meat Train the best American Horror Film in a long time???????
wow.....
I watched it recently upon seeing it reviewed here and was thoroughly disappointed. The gore wasn't good the story wasn't good the acting was great from the butcher but only because he didn't talk. As far as the main character goes he starts dialing up the emotion/craziness dial when it didnt make sense. It was a mediocre twilight zone episode with some cheesy sci-fi sprinkles. You're entitled to your opinion but I expected more from twitch.
More from Twitch? Dude I think you're a little harsh. The truth is lots of seriously crappy stuff gets reviewed by all the big sites whether they acknowledge it or not. We disagree with each other a lot on this site. To expand my review beyond ONE LINE I would say that Midnight Meat Train, like almost all films, has its flaws, but they are far outweighed by the genuinely disturbing nature of its central premise- a premise that is carried through with a strong central metaphor and solid performances.
Please name an American horror film you liked recently.
The emotional development and choices of the lead character makes complete sense when you realize what he's been caught up in by the end of the film. The whole movie is about the individuals loss of identity to the "needs" of the city. The shorthand is that cities eat people in the guise of providing lots of stuff for them to buy, eat, collect, watch....
And while we're on the subject of watching...the gore wasn't good?! You are right I am entitled to my opinion because it was an opinion based on a lot of different elements from the film. Are you saying if the gore had been "good" that would make Meat Train worth watching?
Pardon my hind end but I am walking away from the discussions that are led by people who reduce their experience of the horror genre to simply finding whatever grotesque spectacle they can and deeming it "good." on the basis of it making them twitch or vomit or bleah bleah bleah. Gore is either an element of a story or it's not. And it's been my experience that way too many people who complain about gore not being "good" in a film or that the gore was "great" in a film need to expand their horizons. Son of a gun that's one of the reasons we started Twitch. To promote dialogue instead of simply offering the last word or hyping whatever crap attaches itself to genre labels.
Anybody familiar with Clive Barkers writing, especially The Books of Blood from which this film is adapted would recognize how hard this director tried to honor some truly stunning source material.
Honestly, the release plan for Repo! seems like the best possible plan for a film that's attempting to gain cult status. You don't throw it into every multiplex, rather you craft a small theatrical run, specifically targeting indie cinemas and creating special events. That's how you nurture something that is interested in generating a cult property. Make it seem like its getting the short end of the stick, and let the audience flock to it, liking it and championing it even before they have seen it.
Anyway Repo! is a lousy film anyway.