The Midnight Meat Train

To continue my Clive Barker obsession and also that this one got rave reviews, I got this DVD. Heard it was released limitedly in the US and went straight to video in Canada. I really wonder y.... This is quite a good adaptation of one of the stories in Barker's Books of Blood series, and it's much much better than stuff like Candyman and The Last and Secret Show.

For one thing, it plays to two audiences. Gorehounds will be satisfied and the killings are very stylish, enough to draw some from the art crowd. The victim's POV is also quite interesting, I'm sure it has been done before, but never this elaborate.

Only problem is that 3/4s in, it gets kinda slow and draggy. The butchers' Mexican stand-off is interesting though and more engaging and better choreographed than the latest Bond vehicle. One more thing I liked is the slow psychological deterioration of the main guy instead of the book's landing him smack right into the inevitable ending.