Yeah, I have a hard time remembering names of old samurai & western movies.
Mainly because I've watched most of these flicks when I was just a kid.
I never really bothered with what the titles of these movies were.
I just described them as that badass movie with the *Insert insanely ridiculously baddass scene here.*
ANy way I recommend everybody to buy the dvd of Midnight meat train whenever it comes out.
The movie would've worked far better had it been set in England, but whatever. (I'll just suspend my disbelief and act as if New York subways are empty around 2:00 a.m. At least it gives the director the excuse to cast a hot Japanese chick & Rampage for no apparent reason other then act like a slut & get slaughtered, or act like a prick & get shot.

I heard that the monsters originally were intelligent lovecraftian like beings until lionsgate made them cut 9 minutes out of the theatrical release.
This is the first Kitamura movie I've enjoyed from start to uh never mind the end sucked, but the rest of the movie wasn't that bad.
Good compared to new school horror terms though.

Something no one seems to have noticed here is that every element of the final fight scene was action, the way the two characters were shot, the way they both took even damage till the end, no real crushing cheap comeback like you'd see in any given horror movie, very martial artish character movements with a general intense feeling of desperation. As a big fan of Versus and an action/gore junkie I appreciated this scene very much, one of my favorite fight scenes to date.

Actually I did. I talked about it during the plot twist spoilers.

The plot twist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5DTt_h1wg4
Hah hah. I think it's interesting how Kitamura recycled the fight choreography from Versus.
THere's a scene where a skull gets used as a weapon & they start throwing it around.
It's similar to the scene where the crazy Yakuza in Versus throw the zombie head around.
There's even a scene where a guy gets his tongue pulled out and then the other guy eats it. (In versus it was a heart that got eaten.)
A heart does indeed get pulled out, but the conductor doesn't eat it.

I agree though. That scene was badass. I want more Clive Barker / Kitamura collaborations.
My only real beef with the plot twist is that the monsters weren't Cliver Barker/ H.P. Lovecraft enough.
Clive Barker usually has these monsters haunting you who happen to be smarter & more resourceful than the entirety of the human race.
It was a let down to see that the monsters were nothing more than feral dog like beasts.
The main character becoming the new butcher just doesn't make sense unless the film somehow conveyed how vastly intelligent & omnipotent they were when compared to us.

I let it slide though, because the rest of the movie was that fucking awesome.



I had my doubts that Ryuhei could do a horror film but I was pleasantly surprised.

I had my doubts as well considering how badly he butchered Sky High. (Which was originally a horror themed manga with no martial arts scenes at all.)
I was worried that Kitamura would insert a random hot Japanese babe for the hell of it like he always does. (That completely ruined sky high for me, because it was like an entire harem of hot chicks in that film.
Although Kitamura actually did insert a random hot Japanese woman. (Just as I suspected.)
It actually worked within the script, because they wrote a plausible reason for her to be in the movie.