The Midnight Meat Train (2008) Poster

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for sequences of strong bloody gruesome violence, grisly images involving nudity, sexual content and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A man is shown completely naked in a bathtub and is covered in blood. His genitalia is obscured by dark lighting and is hard to see.
  • A man and a woman start kissing.He then starts thrusting from behind, implying sex. They are fully clothed and only seen from chest up, so there is no nudity.
  • A young woman is confronted by a gang, one of them requests oral sex, she declines and someone intervenes.
  • A man is seen topless in bed.
  • A man presses the breasts of woman and start making love with her, the woman moans, but no nudity.
  • A woman is undressing her shirt and bra, not nude but her hands were on breasts, while posing for snaps.
  • A woman bare breasts were shown, who was lying dead.
  • Several naked dead bodies hanging on meat hooks are seen in multiple scenes; bare buttocks and chests can be seen.
  • While looking at the hanging naked bodies, one scene while looking at a male corpse, you can catch a glimpse of the man's scrotum.

Violence & Gore

  • A man slips on a pool of blood, falls on the ground, and is therefore covered in it. He then sees a man hacking someone to death with a hammer; most of it is offscreen, squishing can be heard.
  • The killer strikes a man in the back of the head with a hammer so hard that his eyes pop out, shown in slow motion with blood gushing everywhere. Another man is stabbed in the crotch with a fish hook and slammed against the ceiling; this same man tries to stop the killer, but is hit in the face with the hammer, shown with blood splattering. A woman is later struck in the head with the hammer so hard that she is decapitated; this is shown from her point of view until we see her own headless body through her eyes and the camera zooms out to show her head.
  • Two men struggle in a train. An hammer is used to beat one of the opponent's hand, a man is stabbed, and then one of them is shot by another man; blood pours and sprays in closeup.
  • Many dead bodies can be seen hanging by hooks naked and with blood on them.
  • A scene shows two men fighting with lots of stabbings and slashes, during the scene a man is stabbed in the back of the head and the neck.
  • An heart is taken from a still living woman's chest, and it's implied that another person eats it. The woman slumps dead with blood flowing from her mouth.
  • A man pulls out another man's tongue and eats it.
  • In a graphic, disturbing and lenghty scene, a man can be seen shaving a body, removing its teeth, nails and eyes with tools, stabbing its ankles with a hook, and hanging it.
  • A young woman gets her head smashed with an hammer.
  • A character removes (and then keeps in a jar) gross and bizarre growths from his flesh by cutting them away with a knife (no blood).
  • There is a sequence taking place in a meat-packaging business; no living animal is seen being slaughtered, but animals bodies and parts are graphically and lenghty seen while the butchers handle them.

Profanity

  • A bit of strong language, 13 uses of "f**k" and several other curses.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A few characters are shown drinking beer at a bar.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The killer is a fearsome and vicious person that kills indiscriminately without remorse.
  • This movie has lots of blood and gore.
  • The tone of the movie is very dark, serious and psychological.
  • Many intense scenes, but nothing scary; Several scenes of stalking, running, and hiding.

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Violence & Gore

  • Monsters can be seen dragging bodies and eating them, mostly offscreen.

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