12 Insane Early Movie Roles By MCU Actors

Right before he made it big with The Hangover, voice of Rocket Racoon and eight-time Oscar nominated actor-writer-director Bradley Cooper tangled with erstwhile Wimbledon FC midfield hard man Vinnie Jones on a late night subway train.

Based on a story from one of horror legend Clive Barker's Books Of Blood, 2008's The Midnight Meat Train features Cooper as a photographer looking to capture the real gritty seedy underbelly of urban life.

This, it turns out, involves Jones as a butcher who is quite clearly a serial killer of late night subway passengers, even though the police apparently won't believe a word of it.

Cooper and Jones have a fight on a subway carriage where people are hung on meat hooks and severed limbs are used as weapons and projectiles, all of which leads to the big reveal of what's really been going on.

It transpires that the real reason the police won't investigate the subway butcher is because of a century-old cover-up of the community of flesh-eating lizard people living below the city; lizard people who must be fed human bodies each night or they will attack subway commuters during the day. Makes perfect sense, really, when you put it like that.

As a reminder that this list is specifically about MCU stars' most straight-up insane early movies rather than about bad ones, it's worth saying that The Midnight Meat Train is a genuinely great movie for fans of Barker specifically and gory horror oddities in general.

Cooper has made plenty worse things since he became a bona fide A-lister, but rarely anything that went so enjoyably off the rails. If only the A-Team movie had such a bonkers third act twist it might have actually been worth watching!