Clive Barker’s MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN hits the big screen

Adapted from the second short story in volume one of Clive Barker’s BOOKS OF BLOOD, MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN will be Japanese director Ryuhei Kitamura’s first English language release. Kitamura first caught the eye of all of us here at Oddity Cinema with his debut feature VERSUS, a Yakuza meets zombie over the top actioner from a few years back.

When Leon Kaufman’s (Bradley Cooper) latest body of work — a collection of provocative, nighttime studies of the city and its inhabitants — earns the struggling photographer interest from prominent art gallerist Susan Hoff (Brooke Shields), she propels him to get grittier and show the darker side of humanity for his upcoming debut at her downtown art space.

Believing he’s finally on track for success, Leon’s obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer, Mahogany (Vinnie Jones), the subway murderer who stalks late-night commuters — ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways imaginable.

With his concerned girlfriend Maya (Leslie Bibb) fearing for his life, Leon’s relentless fascination with Mahogany lures him further and further into the bowels of the subways and ultimately into an abyss of pure evil — inadvertently pulling Maya right along with him.

Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, Azumi, Aragami).

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