Ahoy, squirst! Quint here. Clive Barker's MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN, a short story that I first read in one of Barker's BOOKS OF BLOOD collections, has been tinkered with for a while, trying to make its way onto the big screen. VERSUS' Ryuhei Kitamura is directing for Lionsgate, who is both putting up the money and putting the flick in theaters.

The news is Bradley Cooper (who most will know from his work on ALIAS, but I recognized as the asshole fiance in WEDDING CRASHERS... gotta get caught up on my TV, man...) has signed to star in the flick. He'll play a photographer investigating mysterious killings in the subway system. I know that sounds more than a little like the plot to CHUD, but the original story was world's apart. If it's at all faithful to Barker's story, it'll be one fucked up piece of cinema. There's some truly disturbing imagry in that story. What're your thoughts?