5/30/2023 0 Comments M.e.a.t. rpg review![]() ![]() Writer Jeff Buhler does a wonderful job of creating a world that perfectly matches the tone of the story that Barker created on the page. The film adaptation takes the basic framework established by Barker and adds more (no pun intended) meat to it. People will find it, and whether they find it in midnight shows or they find it on DVD, they’ll find it, and in the end the Joe Drakes of the world will disappear.” This is all about ego, and though I mourn the fact that The Midnight Meat Train was never given its chance in theaters, it’s a beautifully stylish, scary movie, and it isn’t going anywhere. “The politics that are being visited upon it have nothing to do with the movie at all. Clive Barker had this to say on the whole fiasco: Eventually the film got dumped into a hundred theaters across the country and never had a chance to reach the audience that it should have. Eventually what it came down to was bullshit studio politics and satisfying one’s ego. Then I heard rumblings that the studio couldn’t cut together a trailer for the movie? But they already had one! None of this made any sense. I couldn’t wait for the movie to come out!īut when the film didn’t meet its initial release date I was confused. Then when I watched Saw V in theaters I saw the trailer and I knew the film was going to be something special. I followed the film’s production through genre magazines like Fangoria and Rue Morgue and felt very confident that the film version would live up to the story. When I heard that a film version was on the way I got really excited. It was such a cool twist that you didn’t see coming. What I loved about the original story was the ending and how Barker went from telling a pretty straight forward slasher tale (ala Jack the Ripper) to something that was otherworldly (ala H.P. Clive Barker’s short story, The Midnight Meat Train (from his Books of Blood collection) is a brutal and unflinching look into such a world. ![]() It’s a subterranean world that holds many mysteries, dark secrets, and legends. I’ve always been fascinated and disturbed by the underground subway train systems. ![]()
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