The Midnight Meat Train/YMMV
- Fridge Logic: A few things for this movie.
- The Conductor states that "We protect them and nurture them" in reference to the elders... why do that when you could probably eradicate them instead?
- And beyond that - why human flesh? Is there suddenly something wrong with beef/pork/chicken or any other type of meat?
- Sort of explained at the end of the short story. The ancients' immortality is ensured by the human flesh (they are themselves degenerate humans), and said immortality is needed for them to continually serve the Eldritch Abomination they made a deal with so New York would prosper. It's also implied that similar deals were brokered with similar abominations at the site of every major city in the world. Even yours.
- it's also implied that all myths of Gods, ever, including the Abrahamic deity, are sanitized accounts of these abominations.
- That's only Paranoia Fuel if you live in a big city. ;)
- Or its suburbs, but, this being Clive Barker, do you really think the countryside is better?
- Sort of explained at the end of the short story. The ancients' immortality is ensured by the human flesh (they are themselves degenerate humans), and said immortality is needed for them to continually serve the Eldritch Abomination they made a deal with so New York would prosper. It's also implied that similar deals were brokered with similar abominations at the site of every major city in the world. Even yours.
- So at the end, Leon goes to work for the Elders... why, exactly? What part of anything that's happened makes this seem like a good idea?
- In the original short story, he directly meets the Eldritch Abomination the Elders work for, which drives him insane with a mixture of terror and instinctive drive to worship it. It breaks him so thoroughly that he is incapable of doing anything else. It even ends with his now loving New York when he used to despise it.
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel: The entirety of your everyday life is just a cover for a horrible, horrible secret. You want to be a hero? Good luck: Your entire life will be turned upside down to manipulate you and exploit your dark tendencies to turn you into a Complete Monster who kills random people and feeds them to freakish creatures that live underground. Also, try riding a late night subway after watching this movie and not being... jumpy.
- Moment of Awesome: The final fight. An insane serial killer and a weirdo photographer fight wearing steel-mesh aprons, butcher knives and meathooks in a moving subway car full of dead (or near dead) bodies hanging from the ceiling. Mahogany chops off an arm and throws it at Maya at one point, and later the camera moves out of the train to go around the outside of the car, and we can see through the windows, and spins all the way back around again. There's blood everywhere, and the two of them are going at it absolutely no-holds barred. And then the electric guitars start.
- Needs More Love: Mainstream critics didn't care for it if they talked about it at all.
- Well it does have a 71% rating on Rottentomatoes, the reason mainstream critics didn't talk about is because it only got a theatrical release in dollar theaters, so most critics simply weren't able to go and see it.