Nikki Finke Jumps on the Midnight Meat Train! (no, she isn’t in a porno)
Deadlantern.com’s favorite anti-horror zealot, Nikki Finke (long time readers will remember our Eli Roth discussion), is now on the case! 
As you’d expect, she doesn’t answer anything but dives into the gossipy inside politics behind the “snubbing” of the film. It’s sort of a “Well geez, this could be the reason why”. Her blog should remind everyone that “Hollywood insiders” are nothing more than adults with high school drama in their lives.
But it wouldn’t be a Finke-tacular post without some wise moral crusading: “I’ve long campaigned that execs should look inward before releasing “Hard R” horror films, especially those that feature torture porn.”
Ah yes, that’s exactly what we need! I totally want some out-of-touch studio executive who doesn’t know anything about me “looking inward” and deciding whether or not I can handle “Hard R” horror films. This is, after all, the woman who called anybody who likes these films “sickos” and chastized Lion’s Gate with this doozy about Hostel II: “Lionsgate deserves to feel the effects of piracy (not to mention the wrath of mankind) for distributing such a disgusting film.”
Judging from her own words, Finke doesn’t really have any respect for anybody who would go and see Midnight Meat Train, yet that doesn’t stop her from trying to throw gasoline on the fire. Which is kind of cool since I do that shit too 
Anyway, once again I’d like to point out that horror fans didn’t go see MMT (discounted, no less!) this past weekend even with all of this “controversy” and faux-outrage. This is getting ridiculous yet oddly hilarious at the same time. I can’t remember a recent horror film that has gotten so many people angry about something that is a common occurrence in the industry, especially when it comes to our genre. Alas, now we’ll have to live with a couple more weeks of Finke’s super sleuthing and bad mouthing of horror fans.
Look inward, horror fans, and see the light
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Fake Larry said:
Upon checking the article in question, we see something a little surprising: most of the responses are talking sense the same as you.
So maybe Nikki Finke does not command a mob of like-minded supporters, which I find interesting. You’ve already established that she says the things she does to get attention, it seems to work. But it doesn’t appear that a substantial majority of people agree, even on her own board.
Ronin said:
I know why no one went to go see it. They were watching Dark Knight for the 8th time. I might also add that until i read this very post, i’d never heard of Midnight Meal Train