In 'The Midnight Meat Train' Bradley Cooper is a photographer who snaps a picture of a beautiful woman at a New York subway station, only to later learn he was the last person to see her before she disappeared. Cooper becomes obsessed with the disaperance and the actual butcher he thinks did the lady in. His trip down that rabbit hole leads him to find a patern of disapernces going back to at least 1911. Soon he's dragged his girlfriend Leslie Bibb and his best friend Roger Bart into the investigation with him, he also comes to suspect that the police department is in on what's going on.
The film effectively invokes the vibe of slimey early 80's urban horror from 'Manniac' to 'Varity' to 'CHUD'. The films director Ryuhei Kitamuar is Japanese and the influence of Asian horror films is felt as well. An hour and 43 minutes in length I think the movie would have benefited from being 10 to 15 minutes shorter. Still the film is fairly effective and I really appreciated the effort to do something different from the standard American horror fair of the Dubya era. **1/2
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