The Midnight Meat Train
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| Directed by | Ryuhei Kitamura |
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Clive Barker Jorge Saralegui Eric Reid Richard Wright Tom Rosenberg Gary Lucchesi |
| Written by | Jeff Buhler |
| Based on |
The Midnight Meat Train by Clive Barker |
| Starring |
Bradley Cooper Leslie Bibb Brooke Shields Roger Bart Ted Raimi Vinnie Jones |
| Music by | Johannes Kobilke Robb Williamson |
| Cinematography | Jonathan Sela |
| Edited by | Toby Yates |
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| Distributed by | Lionsgate |
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98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3,533,227 |
The Midnight Meat Train is a 2008 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. 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.
The film was directed by Ryuhei Kitamura and stars Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, Roger Bart, Ted Raimi, and Vinnie Jones. Its script was adapted by Jeff Buhler, the producer was Tom Rosenberg of Lakeshore Entertainment, and it was released on August 1, 2008. Producer Joe Daley, a long-time friend of Buhler's, brought the two writers together and helped develop the script, along with producers Anthony Diblasi and Jorge Saralegui, for their and Clive Barker's production company Midnight Picture Show, which was responsible for Book of Blood, the next film adaptation from the anthology of short stories that spawned The Midnight Meat Train. The film appears in a scene of the film 2012 Silver Linings Playbook, likewise starring Cooper, and is shown playing at a drive-in theater in the opening of 2013's Out of the Furnace.
The film opens with a bald man with a briefcase sitting in a moving subway car. As the lights flicker he hears a noise, causing him to stand up. As he walks towards the source of the sound, the next subway car, he slips and falls in a large pool of blood. He then peers through the window to the next car and sees a figure chopping up a bloody corpse.
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