Clive Barker is a horror writer with many film adaptations made of his work, some of them good some of them not so good. Midnight Meat Train falls in to the latter category, but at it least contains the usual elements of his work – mystery, violent killings, and unearthly monsters.
Photographer and aspiring artist Leon (Bradley Cooper from Alias) becomes suspicious of people going missing on a late night train and decides to investigate. His enquiries lead him to a meat packing plant and a mysterious, well groomed man (Vinnie Jones from Tooth & Nail, Hell Ride, The Condemned) who looks to be a killer. Leon and his girlfriend, Maya (Leslie Bibb from Iron Man), eventually find themselves on the train and discover the reasons for a century of killings.
The film is nicely directed by Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus) who brings a Japanese feel to this story from Barker's Books Of Blood, but the movie is let down by too much unconvincing CGI and a slow, clumsy script that can’t maintain suspense or momentum.
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