History Film / TheMidnightMeatTrain

* TheCameo: The Japanese supermodel who Leon rescues from some thugs and Mahogany kills is named [=NorA=], and was in Kitamura's previous (and final one made in Japan, as of this writing) movie, ''[=LoveDeath=]''.

* ThePlace: ''The Midnight Meat Train''.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Leon manages to kill Mahogany, but is soon captured by the conductor who's the true mastermind. It turns out these murders are to feed a race of subterranean monsters, and Mahogany ''let'' leo kill him because he was getting too old for the job. The conductor than kills Maya and forces Leon to eat her heart, mystically brainwashing him into becoming the new Butcher.]]

The Film of the short story by Creator/CliveBarker made in 2008 by [[Film/{{Versus}} Ryuhei]] [[Film/GodzillaFinalWars Kitamura]]. In it, Leon Kauffman (Creator/BradleyCooper), a photographer, is attempting to find the "real" [[BigApplesauce New York City]]. He begins to delve into the city's inner "darkness", and while there, discovers a monstrous serial killer (Creator/VinnieJones) roaming the subways -- and then he meets his boss.

* EldritchAbomination: The Elders.

* DownerEnding: The Butcher is defeated! Oh, but, [[spoiler:Maya's dead, Leon is the new butcher, and this is all much bigger and much scarier than you can ever understand. [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie You work for us now.]]]]

* DeathByRacism: Rare nonwhite-on-white example. A Black Panther harasses Mahogany for his resemblance to Film/ForrestGump, and is killed shortly afterwards.

The Film of the short story by Creator/CliveBarker made in 2008 by [[Film/{{Versus}} Ryuhei]] [[Film/GodzillaFinalWars Kitamura]]. In it, Leon Kauffman (Creator/BradleyCooper), a photographer, is attempting to find the "real" [[BigApplesauce New York City]]. He begins to delve into the city's inner "darkness", and while there, discovers a monstrous serial killer (Vinnie Jones) roaming the subways -- and then he meets his boss.

The Film of the short story by Creator/CliveBarker made in 2008 by [[Film/{{Versus}} Ryuhei]] [[Film/GodzillaFinalWars Kitamura]]. In it, Leon Kauffman, a photographer, is attempting to find the "real" [[BigApplesauce New York City]]. He begins to delve into the city's inner "darkness", and while there, discovers a monstrous serial killer roaming the subways -- and then he meets his boss.

* DiabolicalMastermind: The conductor is revealed to be in on the whole plot..
* DownerEnding: The Butcher is defeated! Oh, but, [[spoiler:Maya's dead, Leon is the new butcher, and this is all much bigger and much scarier than you can ever understand. [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie You work for us, now.]]]]

* PreAsskickingOneLiner: "I've got a train to catch." is the line of choice.

* AncientConspiracy: In order to keep the creatures secret everyone who knows of them plays their part.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Maya at the end, the train conductor cutting her heart out of her chest while she is still wide awake. The heart is still beating afterwards too.

%%* HighPressureBlood.

%%* LudicrousGibs.

%%* ManOfWealthAndTaste: The Butcher.

%%* RainOfBlood.

* CosmicHorrorReveal: The film begins as a [[SlasherFilm Slasher]]-esque story about a musclebound maniac who murders people on a midnight subway train. The protagonist eventually defeats him, only to discover that the killer [[spoiler:was part of a city-wide conspiracy to deliver human sacrifices to the indescribable terrors that live underground. [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie He's forced to become the new Butcher]] and continue the cycle.]]

* DiabolicalMastermind: The conductor is revealed in on the whole plot..

* EyeScream: We get to see eyes leaving the socket as it gets hit with a hmmer.
* {{Gorn}}: Oh ''hell'' yes. The murders, naturally, but also a ''long'' and detailed scene showing Mahogany stripping the corpses. That is, [[spoiler: cutting off their hair, removing their teeth, eyes, and nails, and hanging them on hooks]]. Remember that this is also, essentially, what actual butchers do to actual dead animals.

* HiddenAgendaVillain: Mahogany's motivation for not killing Leon right away, it would seem.

* PoliceAreUseless: [[spoiler: ...because they're in on it!]]

* RoomFullOfCrazy: Once Leon becomes obsessed with "the Butcher" his wife walks in to discover what looks like a stalker shrine of pictures.
* SinisterSubway: Well, ''duh'' people are getting killed in it. During Mahogany's second kill scene, the husband is busy reassuring his wife that [[TemptingFate the subway is perfectly safe, and that those stories are all outdated]].

* TongueTrauma: [[spoiler: Leon has his tongue torn out and eaten.]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: New York City [[spoiler: is a part of a huge conspiracy of monsters!]]

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* CruelAndUnsusalDeath: Maya at the end, the train conductor cutting her heart out of her chest while she is still wide awake. The heart is still beating afterwards too.

* CruelandUnsusalDeath: Maya at the end, the train conductor cutting her heart out of her chest while she is still wide awake.

* TownWithADarkSecret: New York City is a part of a huge conspiracy of monsters!

* NecessarilyEvil: Mahogany [[spoiler:and the conspiracy]] isn't butchering people on the subway for the fun of it. [[spoiler:They're necessary human sacrifices to protect the rest of the city from the evil gods that dwell below.]]