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Today I'll show you a horror-thriller film: "The Midnight Meat Train"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins with a businessperson heavily sleeping in a subway,
until he wakes up and wants to leave the train, when suddenly he slips on a pool of blood
He stares at his bloody hands, and clumsily stands and walks towards the end of the car
What he sees next is a man brutally beating a body on another train car
Meanwhile, Leon, a photographer, loves capturing extraordinary subjects in the big city
He then returns home to his apartment with his girlfriend, Maya
to scrutinize the photos he took before
Maya entices him with good news in exchange for an hour of intimacy
Maya successfully made an appointment with one respected contact of her friend Jurgis'
The news brings joy to Leon, leading him to kiss Maya, and enjoy their deal earlier
The following day, Jurgis accompanies Leon to the appointment
During the meeting with the gallery owner, a dismayed face displays on Leon,
upon hearing the gallery owner's dissatisfaction with his work, due to a lack of risk-taking
So, she ends the three-minute meeting, by challenging Leon to shoot photos bravely
At night, Leon dreams about swaying handles, with dripping blood inside the midnight train
Leon wakes up around 1 AM,
where his determination to impress the gallery owner drives him to capture the nightlife
Outside, he follows three thugs onto the subway,
and observes them cornering the model on the stairs from the top of the stairs
From afar, he shoots photos to capture the ongoing assault
After getting his intended photo, he calls the attention of the thugs,
and bravely captures the intimidating thug walking towards him
Afterward, he points at the active surveillance camera,
to show that whatever they're planning can be seen
Eventually, the three thugs leave them alone, and the model kisses Leon in gratitude
The model catches the midnight train, because the butcher holds the door to stop it from closing
Before boarding the train, the model glances at Leon for the last time;
and Leon snaps a beautiful portrait of her
The train moves deeper into the tunnels;
and the butcher inside strikes the clueless model on the head, with a meat mallet
The following day,
Leon hangs the developed photos from the events of the last night in the train station
Maya admires the result, and convinces him to submit the photos to the gallery owner soon
Later, Maya works in the diner, while Leon, who's vegan, requests the chef to cook the tofu for him
While waiting, he reads from the newspaper
that the model from last night disappeared after their brief encounter
So Leon visits the police station to show the model's photos as evidence
The detective entertains his plea, and oddly recommends selling the model's photos to the tabloids
Leon declines the offer and leaves
Afterward, Leon submits the photos from the train station to the gallery owner
The gallery owner, clearly awe-struck with his work,
proposes to give her three more strong photos, in exchange for an invitation to her group show
As a result, Leon, Jurgis, and Maya drink in the diner, as a celebration of the good news
Meanwhile, the butcher strikes again on the midnight train,
killing three employees by cruelly hitting their heads with a meat mallet,
causing a bloodbath all over the train
As for Leon, sitting alone just outside the subway,
he catches the butcher's intriguing aura, luring him to take photos of him
Leon follows the butcher, but the butcher senses his presence, and abruptly grabs Leon's shirt
Leon notices the butcher's signet ring, and a blood droplet on his knuckle
Afterward, Leon captures a photo of the butcher walking to a hotel,
who glances at him before entering
Arriving at his apartment, Leon examines the butcher's photos in front of the hotel,
and the model's photos before entering the train
He recognizes the signet ring by the door,
realizing the butcher might be responsible for the model's disappearance
The following day, Leon stalks the butcher to his work in a slaughterhouse,
and onto his wait outside the subway station
The butcher sits on the bench,
watching passengers load and unload onto the upcoming trains, until the midnight train's arrival
The midnight train arrives, and the butcher enters
However, a guard stops Leon from following the butcher further,
due to his suspicious act of secretly taking photos of strangers
The butcher strikes again, after being provoked by a passenger
He smashes the passenger's head
but suddenly, he feels a sharp pain pierce his chest,
giving the passenger a chance to retaliate with a punch
They wrestle against one another until the conductor hears the commotion,
and finishes off the passenger by himself, with a clean gunshot to the passenger's right eye
Before returning to the control room,
the conductor expresses his disappointment with the butcher's performance
Meanwhile, Leon surprises Maya at a diner with a marriage proposal
After Maya says yes, they copulate on the diner's counter
Later, Leon wakes up from a nightmare, where much to his horror,
he sees himself slitting the throat of a man, hanging upside-down on the neck
Afterward, Leon prepares dinner, while Maya stares at the hanging photographs in the kitchen
She asks if the butcher's photos are part of his group show,
but he answers "no", and reasons that something's off about the butcher
The model's disappearance continues to bug him; and he feels the butcher is involved
Maya insists on relying on the investigation by the police, so as to avoid bigger problems
However, Leon defies Maya's order, and goes on to conduct research on a butcher,
who is responsible for abductions and killings
Meanwhile, the butcher, standing in front of the bathroom mirror,
slices off the mutated marks on his skin
It's shown that the peeled-off skin is kept inside a small jar, then hidden behind the mirror
It turns out, the butcher's been doing this for so long,
because there are more than a dozen jars hidden
The following day, Leon continues his solo investigation,
disguising himself as a butcher, and secretly taking photos of the butcher working
Suddenly, the butcher faces Leon's direction, leading to a chase inside,
and a game of hide-and-seek
Luckily, Leon successfully escapes
Leon arrives at the diner, and takes a seat next to Jurgis, who is eating
Everyone's surprised when Leon eats a piece of steak, reasoning it's only a bite and resisting
but he eventually gives in, and orders the same meat meal
Later, Maya arrives home,
and finds the apartment filled with cut-out news articles about the century-old butcher's killings,
along with images of maps and portraits
Apparently, Leon becomes obsessed with the butcher's intriguing crimes
Despite the detailed information provided by Leon about the ongoing abduction and killing,
Maya gets dubious and upset, due to her inability to grasp what her boyfriend turned into
So, she stops him from doing night shoots, and convinces him to capture the things he loves
Maya starts undressing, and expecting Leon to capture her charming hormones; but he can't
At night, Maya works at the diner, and Leon visits her to reconcile, which they did
Leon suddenly freezes in place, upon seeing the butcher standing outside the diner
Leon persistently follows the butcher onto the midnight train;
and this time, there are more passengers than usual
When the midnight train is almost empty,
the butcher kills the two passengers in the car where he's staying
In the next car, Leon takes photos of the butcher,
pulling out the corpses' teeth and nails, extracting their eyes, and balding their hair
Unfortunately, the butcher spots and chases Leon, until he's cornered
A while later, Leon wakes up due to the unknown creatures inflicting pain,
and scratching on his chest
Momentarily, Leon wakes up, this time in an abandoned subway station without his camera
He ascends the stairs, and realizes the station is just below the slaughterhouse
He comes home; and Maya welcomes him
but he immediately isolates himself in the bathroom
He checks his chest, and finds peculiar markings engraved there
He leaves the bathroom; and Maya begs to check on him
She offers to call the ambulance, after seeing the markings and the wounds on his forehead
However, Leon stops her, because he has a group show to attend
At night, Leon attends the gallery owner's group show
Despite the clear exhaustion and stress on his face from the events of the midnight train,
he tries communicating with the present clients; but he's preoccupied
The triggering point is the butcher's massive portrait plastered on the wall
Leon leaves the gallery after glaring at the portrait, so as to catch the midnight train
Meanwhile, Maya finally believes Leon,
and meets with Jurgis to retrieve Leon's camera from the butcher
They go to the butcher's current hotel address,
wait for the butcher's departure, and eventually break into the hotel room
Upon investigation, Maya finds an old timetable containing murders for a century on the subway
Unfortunately, the butcher unexpectedly returns, and captures Jurgis snooping inside
However, Maya successfully escapes
Maya then goes to the police station to file a missing report for Jurgis
but the detective dismisses this,
and instead accuses her of stealing an important album from the butcher
Maya reasons that the album is with Jurgis
but the detective is doubtful, so Maya takes the matter on her own
She visits the diner, and borrows the chef's revolver
Upon leaving, the detective tries to stop Maya from making her crazy accusations
but Maya threatens the detective with a gun, asking for Jurgis' real location
The detective spills the truth, saying Jurgis is on the midnight train
While Maya goes to the subway station and rides the midnight train,
Leon on the other side, returns to the slaughterhouse,
and armors himself with a chained apron, and various knives against the butcher
Once alone, Maya searches for Jurgis on the midnight train
Just then, the train passes by the abandoned station, where Leon is waiting
Upon seeing her inside the train, Leon jumps onto the train's last car,
and smashes the door window to enter
Meanwhile, Maya reaches the last car,
and finds corpses hanging upside down onto the handlebars like butchered pigs
The stifling smell of corpses disgusts Maya
However, she finds Jurgis hooked alive there
She tries freeing him, only to give him more excruciating pain
Jurgis' suppressed grunt alarms the butcher, who had just finished killing another victim
The butcher arrives in the corpses' compartment, and spots Maya
Maya is near death, when suddenly Leon arrives just in time
Leon and the butcher fight viciously against each other,
to the point where they wreck the train door
Leon almost kicks the butcher off the train;
but he stabs Jurgis' stomach to prevent himself from falling off the train
Jurgis dies after the butcher guts his entrails, causing blood to gush out of his body
The fight carries on; and out of anger,
Leon repeatedly hammers the cornered butcher's chest and limbs,
until he loses his balance and falls off the train, smashing onto the train tracks
Leon nearly drained from the battle, meets with Maya
They embrace one another, until the midnight train puts a stop to a cavern
The conductor comes out of the control room, and asks the two to leave the train
The two watch the reptile-like creatures swarming,
and feasting on the hanging corpses from the cavern filled with human remains,
which really sends chills down to their spines
Unexpectedly, the butcher is still alive,
and wrestles with Leon once again, until the butcher brings out a sharp machete to kill Leon
Due to fast reflexes, Leon grabs a broken femur from a pile of skeletal remains,
and pierces it into the butcher's waist
Afterward, Leon rapidly pounds the butcher's nape,
quickly grabbing the stuck femur on his waist, and impaling the bone onto his neck
The butcher gasps as he slowly dies, and says his last words, "Take this Welcome"
In confusion, Leon finishes off the butcher with a strike of a machete from the back of his head,
penetrating up to his mouth
The conductor leaves the train,
and explains to Leon that the butcher had become incompetent,
which is evidently shown when the butcher's chest aches unexpectedly during killings,
and his mark mutating off the skin
There's an existing group aiming to protect the reptile-like creatures underground,
which exist even before all the humans are born
The group and the reptile-like creature's correlation are maintained with a deal:
The conductor and a butcher are killing passengers,
to serve as food for the reptile-like creatures to survive
Since Leon finally learns the creatures' existence, the conductor rips off Leon's tongue,
to keep him from telling the truth to everyone
In that way, it will help to keep the two worlds separated
Meanwhile, Maya unconsciously lies on piles of decaying corpses
The conductor approaches Maya's body, raises the dagger,
and cuts open the chest to withdraw Maya's beating heart
Apparently, the heart is used to coerce Leon to join the group's cause
The movie ends with the detective,
who's also a member of the group mentioned by the conductor,
giving the suitcase holding the killing tools and timetable to a man in the suit
The man in suit ominously walks on the midnight train,
revealing Leon's face in this man as the next butcher
It turns out the haunting dreams, where Leon saw himself killing passengers in a train,
is already a forewarning;
the mutating marks from the butcher are the same mark given to Leon when he was captured,
meaning the reptile-like creatures chose him as the next butcher
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