Fans Forced to Wait for Midnight Meat Train

Posted by dominie in Events, Films, Games, Interviews, News, Reviews on August 26th, 2008

Clive Barker’s adaptation of The Midnight Meat Train was doomed for failure when its release only hit a limited 100 discount theaters. The limited release was allegedly due to Lionsgate’s president, Joe Drake, who gave his film, The Strangers, preferential treatment in the run for the big screen. MTV caught up with Clive Barker to discuss the fact of the matter.

In an interview with MTV, Barker unleashes his distress.

“There’s room for everything,” he says. “You don’t have to shit on somebody else’s work to advance your own material” referring to Lionsgate president Joe Drake. “Though I mourn the fact that Midnight Meat Train was never given its chance in theaters,” continues Barker, “The movie is surviving the nonsense… It’s a beautifully stylish, scary movie, and it isn’t going anywhere… People will find it, and whether they find it in midnight shows or they find it on DVD, they’ll find it, and in the end the Joe Drakes of the world will disappear.”