Horror Queen

PLOT

Leon (Bradley Cooper) is a photographer who can’t seem to catch a break. Brooke Shields owns an art gallery and tells him he needs to stay in the moment to really make something of himself. He ends up catching an attack on a young woman and gets some great shots that the gallery owner loves. The same young woman disappears that same night and he realizes he captured images of the killer on his film. He

TRIVIA

Based on a short story by Clive Barker.

Some of the artwork inside the gallery was actually created by Clive Barker.

THOUGHTS

On the Horror Queen’s hotness scale of 1-10, Bradley Cooper rates a 12.5. There’s something about this guy that I’ve liked since back when he was on “Alias” and the far underrated and unappreciated “Kitchen Confidential”. Oddly enough, Vinnie Jones rates about a 10-11, which really says something about my fucked up taste in men. The two of them together equals happy times in my book.

I know that nearly everyone in the world has already seen Midnight Meat Train, but the Horror Queen sadly doesn’t really have any friends who like horror movies and doesn’t really like going to movies by herself, so it was a waiting game. Now I have seen it and there were a few things I liked, other than the men.

First is Leslie Bibb, who I’ve been following since her days on “Popular” (by the way, this is at least the second or third reference I’ve made to that show since starting this blog). She and Cooper have amazing chemistry together, even if they’re fighting. If you doubt that, wait for the far too short sex scene. Any man who would turn me around and bend me over the counter is a guy worth keeping. Plus you have Brooke Shields who looks way too good for her age, not to mention a blink and you’ll miss it character played by Ted Rami, who I sadly also have a small crush on.

I’ve never read the story so I can’t say how it holds up. The only thing I’ve really ever read from Barker was a non-fiction book on horror movies. All I know is that I kind of liked this one. It kept me entertained and I didn’t run out to use the bathroom real quick or stopped to take a phone call; I just watched the whole thing in one sitting and it kept me interested in the story. Jones was incredibly creepy in Midnight Meat Train and he never even had to utter a word. I wish he could teach other actors how to do the same thing.