![]() ![]() ![]() The story follows an aspiring photographer named Leon (Bradley Cooper), who gets a shot at his big break when his girlfriend Maya (Leslie Bibb) arranges for him to meet with an illustrious art curator named Susan Hoff (Brooke Shields). It’s disappointing to say the least, as the film-adapted from a short story found in the first volume of the Books of Blood by master of horror Clive Barker-is one of the most brilliantly crafted gore fests to hop off the metro in the last decade. ![]() Now on home video, a fair number of people still haven’t even heard of the movie, never mind a few that read the title on upcoming release lists and just assumed it was a porno. Internal politics shelved the completed production a couple of months for starters, and when it was finally released it received a poor marketing campaign and was only shown in about a hundred theaters-many of which were cheap dollar movie houses. That’s just a more poetic way of saying the film was butchered by its own studio. ![]() Released in the summer of last year, ‘The Midnight Meat Train’ had the unfortunate luck of being prematurely derailed and decommissioned before it even had a chance to take the public for a wild ride. “The most terrifying ride you’ll ever take.” ![]()
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