10 Horror Movie Villains Who Actually Won
2. The Subway Lizards - The Midnight Meat Train
It’s a funny name - really it is - but what’s not funny at all is that each night, a butcher hangs out on the subway line and kills passengers to feed huge reptiles that live below the city. Actually that is a little bit funny too.
That’s the whole plot summary of The Midnight Meat Train, essentially. Bradley Cooper plays a guy called Leon who uncovers a pattern of subway murders and finds that they’re killings carried out from necessity. If you don’t feed the reptiles the night passengers, they’ll eat the daytime passengers. Don’t worry about rerouting the subway or anything, this is easy enough.
Leon is down on his luck to start with, his photography career failing, and unfortunately instead of this discovery leading to his big break into investigative journalism it leads to his girlfriend being murdered and him becoming a killer.
He kills the butcher that has most recently been carrying out the murders and it is decreed that whomever kills the butcher must become the new butcher, and so he does. It’s a W for the big lizards who get to keep eating fresh meat, and a huge L for Bradley Cooper who really never envisioned himself on this career path.