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Just by reading the title, I could guess what it was about, though I didn’t expect the ending to be the way it was. This movie is shot most of the times at night and the killer in the movie only spoke two short phrases during the ENTIRE movie, so he mostly shows his “cruelty” by his gesture, body language, and facial expressions. Cool!!! This movie is also very gruesome and grisly in some places (rated R), so be warned!!!

This movie makes me wonder about some things that are revealed at the end of it, but when I found out that it was based on a short story by Clive Barker, I understood more why it was like that. And I also find some explanation about the ending, which you can find here. Overall, I’ll give this movie a 7 stars out of 10. I don’t like the ending too much, but still this movie shows you COOL angles of some scenes, so THUMBS up for that effect!!!

The Story:

Leon (Bradley Cooper) is a wannabe professional photographer who is trying hard to be known. He lives with his girlfriend Maya (Leslie Bibb) in New York. Through a friend named Jurgis (Roger Bart), Leon is introduced to Susan Hoff (Brooke Shields), a gallery owner who has an eye for art. Susan gives Leon a few suggestions on how to take better pictures, so he follows her advice.

He begins to roam the city at nights to take better pictures to show to Susan. One night he sees a young woman being bothered by a gang of guys. He keeps on taking pictures of the incident and then he shows the gang that there’s a video surveillance camera that records the incident, so he manages to save the young woman. The young woman then gets inside the midnight train and there she meets her death. Leon manages to take a picture of the killer’s ring as the young woman gets inside the train.

When Leon reads the newspaper article about the young woman’s disappearance, he begins to worry. So he goes there again at night to find that guy. He follows the guy and takes pictures of him. Turns out the guy is a butcher who works in a meat factory. He tries to report his hunch to a police officer, but to no avail. He’s got no proof about anything.

So one night he decides to get inside the train along with the butcher. The butcher always waits for the last train to come and then he butchers all the people who are inside that last train. He then takes away their eyes, fingernails, and teeth. Then he hangs them upside down, just like the meat hanging in the meat factory. Leon is shocked by what he sees, but he manages to be brave enough to take pics of the whole incident.

However, of course the butcher finds out, since the train never stops in any platform except the very last one. The next thing Leon knows, he wakes up in a strange place with marks on his chest. He comes back home to a worried Maya and explains to her that he has just witnessed such an incident, but the camera is taken away by the killer, so he can’t go to the police.

Maya decides to investigate this with Jurgis. They decide to go to the hotel where the butcher stays in to get Leon’s camera and proof of the killings (Maya knows where he stays because Leon has taken so many pictures of the butcher, including when he follows the butcher getting inside that hotel).

Will Maya and Jurgis be able to find the camera? What is exactly going on? Why does the butcher do that? What for? Who will survive in the end and who will be killed? Expect plenty of twists at the end of the movie!