The Midnight Meat Train

Released Year: 2008
Directed by 北村 龍平 Ryuhei Kitamura

Casted by:
Bradley Cooper as Leon
Leslie Bibb as Maya
Vinnie Jones as Mahogany
Brooke Shields as Susan Hoff

Story:

Leon is hoping to achieve to another level in his carrier (photographer), but his work did not inspire Susan Hoff who's quite famous in the industry and going to have her own exhibition soon. Feeling sad and down, luckily Maya was aside him for the assurance.

One night, Leon managed to shoot some black guys trying to rape an Asian female model, Erika at the train station. He managed to shoot the photos and threatened them. The next day, Leon showed the photos to Susan and she was impressed. Susan promised if Leon can shoot the photo which showed the "heart of the city" then his work will be shown in the exhibition also.

But when Leon went home and read the newspaper, he found out Erika was missing. Tracing back the photo, he managed to see a hand appearing in the photo which has a special ring on it. Leon ignore Maya's advice and continue to follow Mahogany who Leon think he's the murderer of Erika case. Leon then found out Mahogany stay alone and work as a butcher. During one night of following, Leon was shocked to see Mahogany killed the people who took the last train. He smashed them with a heavy metal and stripped them naked and plug off their eyes, nails, teeth & hair. Mahogany knew that he was followed and smack Leon into unconsciousness.

Leon woke up in a deserted place and went home. He found out there's a symbol scratched on his chest and his camera was gone. Maya found out and found their best friend Jurgis for help. Both of them sneaked into Mahogany's apartment and found out a lot of the slicing tools. Unluckily, Mahogany back in a sudden and got Jurgis. In the meanwhile, Susan's exhibition is a succeed but Leon feel the urge to look for Mahogany and kill him.

To safe Jurgis, Maya went to take the midnight train. She found Jurgis hanging in the train but was unable to safe him. Mahogany discovered Maya is here and try to kill her. Maya shot the evil man but failed, the train passed to the dead tunnel and Leon managed to jump onto the train from one of the deserted train. Both Leon and Maya fought with Mahogany but he was too strong. Finally they have the chance and slit a knife into Mahogany's brain.

The train stopped at the final stop, the train driver told them the corpse are for the ancient monster to feed on. If there are no meat for them, the monster will come into the modern world and make a disaster. Both couple got afraid but Maya was cut alive and dead into half. Leon lost his mind. Later on, Leon took up the job and become the next killer on this midnight train.

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

This movie is based on Clive Barker's novel. Thrilling & horrifying. Kinda out of my expectation, it really scared me a bit. I m a horror movie freak and i seldom got scare like this. But you can feel the spooky of the movie by just imagine sitting alone in the train while the murder attack u.

Bradley is still yummy; love leslie bibb, she has a tough face but she can still acted like a soft woman. Vinnie Jones is an ex British football player who turned into actor few years ago. I think he didn't speak a word in this film, but he's good in the expression. :)

Recommend for horror movie fans.