The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
Cea mai nouă creaţie a fotografului Leon Kaufman – un studiu despre viaţa nocturnă a metropolei în care locuieşte şi a locuitorilor ei – îi atrage atenţia lui Susan Hoff, proprietara unei importante galerii de artă, care decide să-l ajute pe tânărul fotograf să arate publicului faţa întunecată a oamenilor, surprinsă în poze.
Convins că este pe drumul spre succes, cursa lui Leon de urmărire a vieţii obscure de noapte îl aduce faţă în faţă cu un criminal în serie, Mahogany, care obişnuieşte să-şi măcelărească victimele din metrou în cel mai crunt mod cu putinţă.
Prietena fotografului, Maya, devine îngrijorată de riscurile pe care şi le asumă partenerul ei, în vreme ce artistul îşi continuă neabătut parcursul în subteranele oraşului, ajungând din ce în ce mai aproape de răul absolut.
Summary: The film opens as a well dressed, barrel chested man stalks the late-night passengers of a subway train. He assaults and kills several people with a meat hammer, and a butcher’s hook. He dispatches his prey wordlessly, and with an uncannily unnatural strength. He wears a ring on his finger, adorned with eight stars. We are then introduced to Leon, a vegan photographer who heads into the city’s subway system at night to take photographs. He is criticized constantly by other photographers for fleeing danger before shooting a full reel. One night, in a decision to break this trend, he saves a woman from a gang that is abusing her. The next day, he discovers this girl has gone missing. Leon is intrigued by the mystery, and begins to investigate newsreels about similar disappearances. His investigation leads him to a butcher named Mahogany, who he suspects has been killing subway passengers for as long as a hundred years. Leon attempts to turn some of the photos he has taken of Mahogany in to the police, but they refuse to believe him, and instead cast suspicion on his own motives in photographing the victims. Leon’s involvement quickly turns into a dark obsession, upsetting his waitress girlfriend Maya, who is as disbelieving of his story as the police chief. Leon takes matters into his own hands, entering the subway train at midnight, only to witness a shocking bloodbath, as the butcher kills several passengers, then hangs them on meat hooks. Passing out on the subway floor, he awakes the next morning in a slaughterhouse with strange markings carved into his chest.
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