The film’s tone is severe and handled with the utmost seriousness in every scene. So why was I laughing?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 6, 2023

Gruesome, dirty, strange: I love it.

| Oct 26, 2022

Easily one of 2008's most pleasant, if one dares to call such a film pleasant, surprises.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 16, 2020

There is a sprightly energy to the proceedings and a neat twist that makes this mindless fun something of a guilty pleasure.

| Nov 1, 2018

Overall, I recommend the film, you may or may not find it a bit dry.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2018

Initially intriguing yet ultimately atrocious...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 23, 2018

A bloody psycho thriller that derails in the third act with the addition of the supernatural, but until that point is amazingly realistic and alarming.

| Original Score: B- | May 4, 2016

this devilishly ambiguous thriller leaves viewers to decide whether to take the conventional or the less-traveled tunnel through its narrative network - and the results are a stylishly bloody descent into madness, murder and hell itself.

Full Review | Dec 1, 2010

So thoroughly coated in over-the-top blood and guts that even veteran genre fans will likely be astounded.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 25, 2010

It's excessively and imaginatively gory, presented in a straightforward manner, but with the slightest hint of a wink.

| Mar 20, 2009

Midnight Meat Train may be no classic of the genre, but it's certainly a better and more interesting film than most of what passes for horror movies these days.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2009

Midnight Meat Train brings an unabashed brutality to the horror genre.

| Feb 14, 2009

... remarkably effective and, when it finally arrives at the end of the line, admirably simple.

| Feb 11, 2009

This is the best Clive Barker-inspired movie in a long, long time -- probably since "Hellraiser III" in 1992.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 9, 2009

Goes full speed on ultra-gory rails before slamming to an abrupt stop.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 28, 2009

while skimpy on characterization and plot, it should please gorehounds and Barker fans alike

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 3, 2009

Japanese director Ryuhei Kitamura, who kicked off his career with 2000's impressive micro-budget zombie flick Versus, delivers plenty of stylish visuals and an admirably unrestrained attitude to gore.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 31, 2008

The film hurtles towards the final 'revelation moment' like runaway train. If only it had stopped to take on board some of Barker's heavy mythical dread.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Oct 30, 2008

Unfairly buried by its distributors in the US, this film takes what could have been a drab set-up and gives it some real bravado, energy and creativity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2008

The Midnight Meat Train is destined for cult status as an minor horror gem.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2008