15 Good Horror Films That Totally Lost It By The End
8. The Midnight Meat Train
The Film:
A trashy but fun horror film that has Vinnie Jones as a serial killer on a subway carrying out some seriously gory killings, while Leon (Bradley Cooper), a photographer tries to stop him.
The Ending:
Most of the film is pretty entertaining, but at the end it just gets silly. It turns out Vinnie Jones' antagonist is killing people to feed creatures that live below the city so that they won't attack anyone during the day. Why did they have to bring a ludicrous fantasy element into it? Why couldn't the serial killer, Mahogany, just an unexplained serial killer like Michael Myers?
The death of Mahogany carries no real weight, and neither does the unnecessary death of Leon's love interest. Then, for no apparent reason, Leon inexplicably takes over as the new subway butcher. There is no hint that Leon would have it in him to do stuff of that nature and this just came out of nowhere in a highly jarring manner.
The style of this film is very over-the-top, stylish and gory, and it was always going to be hard to sustain the film without the novelty eventually wearing off. The film does a perfectly admirable job overall, but it's a shame about the underwhelming ending.