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Midnight Meat Train

Discussion in 'TV, Music and Movies' started by ILPhinFan88, Apr 14, 2008.

  1. ILPhinFan88

    ILPhinFan88 Premium Member Luxury Box

    Reports have surfaced around the web stating Midnight Meat Train, the Ryuhei Kitamura adaptation of Clive Barker's novella, was going direct-to-DVD through Maple Pictures.

    ShockTillYouDrop.com did some digging and learned Maple Pictures is a Canadian distribution entity that often handles Lionsgate's releases. So, while these direct-to-DVD rumblings may be true - we have yet to contact the folks at Maple - they apply to MMT's Canadian release only.

    Here in the U.S., insiders tell Shock Lionsgate is contractually obligated to release Midnight Meat Train, or as it's now being called Midnight Train, theatrically. That was one of the incentives prompting Lakeshore (the film's production company) to enter into a partnership with Lionsgate on the film. It is still unknown when the studio will release the film (recent test screening results were fairly positive).

    Trailer....
    http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/videonews.php?id=1544
     
  2. Brown42000

    Brown42000 Chillin

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    Midnight Meat Train.......... Sounds like a porno.
     
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  3. ILPhinFan88

    ILPhinFan88 Premium Member Luxury Box

    Review.....

    Midnight Meat Train, when first set to paper by Clive Barker in his late-20s, was a reaction to his confusing and uncomforting first time in Manhattan, notably a subway excursion that propelled him beyond the city limits. The fears that came out of that ordeal inspired one of the most unforgettable and long-cherished entries in Barker's lauded Books of Blood collection, a story of a chance encounter between a New Yorker and a subway-lurking serial killer. Each of them feeding the city in their own ways. MMT is arguably one of Barker's leanest, meanest works, and from the Books of Blood it was always a leading heavyweight contender for the silver screen. Years after trading hands from Bernard Rose (who considered the material for a Candyman sequel) to Patrick Tatopoulos, MMT has been super-injected by the hyper stylings of Ryuhei Kitamura and the assured, bumpy narrative expansion by Jeff Buhler. For the first time since Rose's Candyman (possibly one of the best horror films of the '90s in my opinion), they've done right by the Barker name as MMT is a mature adaptation that pulls no punches and takes no prisoners even if it does tend to meander.

    As Kitamura's American debut, MMT cuts to the bone and sets the senses ablaze with eye-popping visuals. The man f**kin' goes to town importing the kinetic mayhem he wrought in Versus and combining it with Jonathan Sela's photography that embraces the sickening fluorescent and neon tints of the subway and the city. If Michael Mann had directed a slasher film somewhere between Thief and The Keep, Midnight Meat Train might have been the outcome - cold, unyielding and driven by a synth '80s score (here, executed deftly by Johannes Kobilke and Robb Williamson).

    There are some ballsy, memorable kills on display and Kitamura doesn't skimp on the blood. He also obviously doesn't mind the ambiguity Buhler's script offers in the end (a faithful conclusion) which is so goddamn refreshing in this day and age of exposition making the world go 'round.

    Questionable pacing issues aside, Midnight Meat Train is a welcome, adult R-rated horror film. A sobering reminder - hitting you like a slap to the face - that there are still plenty of Barker stories, however bizarre, ripe for adaptation. Midnight Meat Train was one and it may have taken some time to reach its final destination, but the wait was worth it. It's seedy, strange, creepy as hell and it relishes an exploitive gross-out gag here and there. That's a ticket to ride I'd buy any day.

    http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/reviewsnews.php?id=5914
     
  4. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    I love Clive Barker's work. This was a short story from the 'Books of Blood'.

    'Everyone is a book of blood.
    When we're opened, we're red.'
     
  5. ILPhinFan88

    ILPhinFan88 Premium Member Luxury Box

    It got moved to a Aug 1st opening but here is a review. More info at the link


    Reviewed by: Ryan Rotten
    Rating: 7 out of 10

    As Kitamura's American debut, MMT cuts to the bone and sets the senses ablaze with eye-popping visuals. The man f**kin' goes to town importing the kinetic mayhem he wrought in Versus and combining it with Jonathan Sela's photography that embraces the sickening fluorescent and neon tints of the subway and the city. If Michael Mann had directed a slasher film somewhere between Thief and The Keep, Midnight Meat Train might have been the outcome - cold, unyielding and driven by a synth '80s score (here, executed deftly by Johannes Kobilke and Robb Williamson).

    There are some ballsy, memorable kills on display and Kitamura doesn't skimp on the blood. He also obviously doesn't mind the ambiguity Buhler's script offers in the end (a faithful conclusion) which is so goddamn refreshing in this day and age of exposition making the world go 'round.

    Questionable pacing issues aside, Midnight Meat Train is a welcome, adult R-rated horror film. A sobering reminder - hitting you like a slap to the face - that there are still plenty of Barker stories, however bizarre, ripe for adaptation. Midnight Meat Train was one and it may have taken some time to reach its final destination, but the wait was worth it. It's seedy, strange, creepy as hell and it relishes an exploitive gross-out gag here and there. That's a ticket to ride I'd buy any day.


    http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/reviewsnews.php?id=5914
     
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  6. ILPhinFan88

    ILPhinFan88 Premium Member Luxury Box

    The fickle nature of Lionsgate's treatment of The Midnight Meat Train's release should have prepared you for this.

    Studio insiders confirmed for us this afternoon that Lionsgate is planning a limited 100 theater run of the Clive Barker adaptation on August 1st. An unceremonious release for Ryuhei Kitamura's stylish American directorial debut.

    This move fulfills Lionsgate's contractual obligation with production entity Lakeshore to give it some sort of theatrical run. The plan is to subsequently release Meat Train quickly down the line (October?) for a DVD release. That's the word for now, however, we hear there is an effort to beef up the theater count on behalf of Lakeshore. Nothing is solid on that front.

    The film stars Bradley Cooper, Brooke Shields, Vinnie Jones and Leslie Bibb. Screenwriter Jeff Buhler adapted Barker's Books of Blood entry.

    You can read our early positive review here.

    http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=6499
     
  7. ILPhinFan88

    ILPhinFan88 Premium Member Luxury Box

  8. King Felix

    King Felix Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    lmao reminds me of harold and kumar escape from Guantanamo bay...you guys ready for your cockmeat sandwich?
     
  9. Sethdaddy8

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    that killer sure gets a lot done in between them short stops. jeez, talk about hustle.
     

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