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[Kill of the Week] Eyeballs Bashed Out in ‘Midnight Meat Train’
Every week, we spotlight a kill that we just can’t get enough of. This is Kill of the Week.
While Sam Raimi is great at making horror movies, his brother Ted Raimi is great at dying in them. Sam’s younger brother was killed in films ranging from 1989’s Intruder to 2004’s The Grudge, as well as in Evil Dead II, Shocker, Wishmaster and My Name is Bruce. Ted Raimi’s most memorable death scene? That was in The Midnight Meat Train.
Released in 2008, the Ryuhei Kitamura-directed Clive Barker adaptation starred a pre-Hangover Bradley Cooper as Leon, a photographer whose desire to step outside his comfort zone leads him right into the lair of Mahogany, a brutal serial killer played by Vinnie Jones. Mahogany, it turns out, has been killing subway passengers for years.
The Midnight Meat Train is without question one of the very best Clive Barker adaptations, and it’s home to some of the most insanely over the top brutality in the last 10 years; watching the brutish Jones massacre his way through NYC subway passengers is like watching the version of Jason Takes Manhattan we never actually got.
Granted, a whole lot of CGI was used to bring the film’s gruesome violence to the screen, but it totally works as a stylized celebration of gratuitous excess. Midnight Meat Train‘s violence is wonderfully executed in a comic book style, and Ted Raimi gets it particularly bad when Mahogany slams a meat-pounder into the back of his head.
His eyes goes flying out of his skull. As for his friends, well, Mahogany smashes one directly in the face with the same mallet. The other is completely decapitated.
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‘The Whisper Man’ Official Poster – Netflix Serial Killer Thriller Stars Robert De Niro & Adam Scott
If you leave a door half open, soon you’ll hear the whispers spoken. That’s the official tagline for The Whisper Man, a new serial killer thriller coming to Netflix next month.
Adam Scott, Michelle Monaghan, and Robert De Niro star in The Whisper Man. Based on Alex North‘s 2019 novel of the same name, the film will stream on August 28.
Check out the official poster below and expect the trailer soon.
In the film, “When his eight-year-old son is abducted, a widowed crime writer looks to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer known as The Whisper Man.”
The stacked cast also includes Michael Keaton, John Carroll Lynch, Hamish Linklater, Owen Teague, Will Brill, and Acston Luca Porto.
James Ashcroft (The Rule of Jenny Pen) directs Netflix’s upcoming movie The Whisper Man from a script by Ben Jacoby (The First Omen) and Chase Palmer (IT).
Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Angela Russo-Otstot, Michael Disco, and Kassee Whiting produce the thriller for AGBO (Everything Everywhere All at Once, Extraction).
The Whisper Man is Rated R for “some bloody violence, disturbing images, suicide, language, and brief sexual references.”
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