RSSReview: The Midnight Meat Train
The Midnight Meat Train is about a serial killer prowling New York City’s subway system. Really, though, it’s about how a man deliberately (if naively) pursues a glimpse of hell, and consequently becomes a part of it. In other words, typical Clive Barker stuff. After “Hellraiser,” it’s the second-best adaptation of a Barker story to film. It’s been reworked dramatically by screenwriter Jeff Buhler and director Ryuhei Kitamura, however, and they improve in every way on the source material, which is a rarity for literary adaptations.
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