Look at that title. Go ahead, you can laugh. Despite sounding like a budget-rate porno made in 1976, the first impression left by this trailer for The Midnight Meat Train is that Lionsgate is treating us to yet another westernized Japanese horror flick. This is only kind of true. MMT is being directed by Ryuhei Kitamura — Kitamura earned his J-cinema cred making cult fodder like Versus and Godzilla: Final Wars — but it’s actually based on a short story by Clive Barker. Looks like pretty standard stuff: guy uncovers/witnesses bizarre/supernatural killing, nobody believes him, he decides to solve it on his own, things get super scary. What’s interesting about Midnight Meat Train is that it’s got Bradley Cooper in the lead. The thirty-three year-old Cooper has been popping up all over television in the last seven years but has yet to make much of an impact on screen. The thing is, every time he’s played male lead on a show, it’s died. Just look at Kitchen Confidential and the truly awful Jack and Bobby. Somehow I doubt The Midnight Meat Train is going to be his big break.
Note: This is actually the Screengrab's second look at this trailer. You can check out Paul Clark's write up right here.