Another very, very cool image of Vinnie Jones as Mahogany from The Midnight Meat Train. I’ve heard great things about the footage shown at San Diego Comic-Con from a friend who was there. Hope springs eternal. (Via Bloody Disgusting.)
Another very, very cool image of Vinnie Jones as Mahogany from The Midnight Meat Train. I’ve heard great things about the footage shown at San Diego Comic-Con from a friend who was there. Hope springs eternal. (Via Bloody Disgusting.)
As with the previous picture of Mahogany, I’m struck by the precision of the thing: not just his body language, which is utterly focused and without wasted gesture of any kind, but the photographic composition. I love handheld semi-documentary looks, but early Barker generally calls for this sort of mechanical stillness, I think – the story’s there to show its things with clarity.
Here’s hoping.
I think it’s the composition that gets me the most. You get so accustomed to style-less horror films that seeing an image with some panache really gobsmacks you.
I think the image I come back to in “Hellraiser” more than any other, for example, is that gorgeously stark flourescent-lit shot of Julia looking into the bathroom mirror as she washes off the blood from her first kill, makeup smeared. I remember thinking “Damn, for a novice filmmaker, he lucked into an amazing shot here, man.”