Midnight Meat Train (2008)

As a typical New York photographer, Leon’s (Bradley Cooper) goal has been to capture the essence of the city around him. Breaking through his lens and into the world around him, Leon helps protect a girl who he met on the subway from a group of hooligans harassing her. The mornings paper provides him with the unfortunate news that the same girl has gone missing. Delving into this mystery a little more than the average photographer would, Leon crosses paths with a quiet man in a business suit (Vinnie Jones) who has a passion for killing people on the late night train. The man enjoys stripping his victims naked and hangs them up just like a meat packing factory, proving just how cold and heartless a killer he really is. The adventure that Leon dives into in his attempt to stop the main in the suit has alienated his girlfriend (Leslie Bibb) and put distance between him and the investigating agent (Roger Bart). But it isn’t until the end of the movie that we find out exactly what the midnight meat train really is.

This film has only made it to about 100 screens total, most of them in second run theaters, so there isn’t high expectations that this movies audience will come from the theater. The possibilities will increase as we come closer to the DVD release.

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Midnight Meat Train - August 1st 2008

Straying away from traditional pictures, photographer Leon Kaufman (Bradley Cooper) decides to further explore his darker side. Equipped with his camera, he begins to track down a subway serial killer whose butcher-like tactics leave some of the most horrific and graphic images one could imagine.

Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, this adaptation of a short story written by Clive Barker pits the mind of a struggling photographer against the persuasion of an art gallery proprietor (Brooke Shields) who is ready to display his latest work of art. Despite Kaufman’s girlfriend Maya (Leslie Bibb) protesting his stalking of the serial killer Mahogany (Vinnie Jones), he enters the world and mind of a crazed murder, something that might just be too difficult for him to return from.