The Midnight Meat Train


The Midnight Meat Train is a 2008 mystery horrorthriller film based on Clive Barkers 1984 short story of the same name, which can be found in Volume One of Barkers 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.

A welldressed, barrelchested man enters the New York City subway at midnight and stalks the latenight passengers of a subway train. He assaults and kills several people with a meat hammer and a butchers hook. He dispatches his prey wordlessly, and with an unnatural strength. He wears a ring on his finger, adorned with an eight pointed star.Leon is a vegan amateur photographer who wants to find unique spots of the NYC landscape to shoot, and at the advice of his contractor heads into the citys subway system at night. He is criticized constantly by other photographers for fleeing danger before shooting a full reel. One night, in a decision to break this trend, he saves a woman from a gang that is abusing her. The next day, he discovers this girl has gone missing. Leon is intrigued by the mystery, and begins to investigate newsreels about similar disappearances. His investigation leads him to a butcher named Mahogany, whom he suspects has been killing subway passengers for the past three years. ........

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