Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Don't Miss Your Train!






Torture, gore and death are the three elements that are required in order to produce a high-quality, bloodcurdling scary movie. My whole life I have enjoyed watching horror movies, although I will admit that I am terrified of zombies!!!! My name is Jackie and I am a student at the University of St. Francis. In my blogs I will give my opinion as well as little known facts on various scary movies.
A more recent movie that would be of interest to watch would have to be the movie called “Midnight Meat Train” (2008), which is an adaptation of a short story from the horror heavyweight Clive Barker, but directed by Ryuhei Kitamura. The movie focuses on a struggling photographer named Leon (Bradley Cooper) just waiting to catch his ‘big break’ while living with his girlfriend Maya (Leslie Bibb). He is given an opportunity to have his work analyzed by Susan Hoff (Brooke Shields), who is a successful owner of an art gallery. She encourages him to explore the sinister side of humanity. As he walks the streets later on that night, he photographs a woman being mugged by three punks. Like a gentleman he steps in and makes sure that she gets to her train safely. The next morning, he sees on the news that the same woman that got mugged last night was missing. He immediately goes to the police, but Detective Lynn Hadley (Barbara Eve Harris) does not seem to care for what he has to say, so he begins to take matters in his own hands.
Leon begins to look at the details of his picture from that night more closely and notices that the same face keeps reappearing, which is that of an elegant butcher. In an attempt to get to the bottom of whatever may be happening, he unknowingly stalks a notorious serial killer named Mahogany (Vinnie Jones). His obsession brings about his descent into the killer’s putrid world, along with his girlfriend. They enter a perverse path of darkness from which there is no return.

The detail in this movie is what makes it worth watching. The scenes where he kills the unsuspecting passengers are so bloody I was actually left speechless! Mahogany uses old school butcher tools in order to take the lives of the people. But the thing that makes the movie so interesting is that in the end you find out that he is not really a monster, rather a slave that was somehow recruited to find the food, skin it properly (which means removing the hair, nails and teeth) and hang it up to be prepared for the ghouls in the depths of the subway tunnels.
The way he kills is interesting. One man is struck on the back/side of his face with a meat cleaver, causing his eyeballs to be projected from their sockets. The same scene shows the gruesome death of a poor, helpless woman as she struggles to crawl away on the blood soaked floor. The thought and time that was put into the details of the movie really make it worthwhile to watch.

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