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The disc also features the usual collection of trailers for other Lionsgate features. We're treated to a fairly mundane EPK making-of featurette, a thoughtful, intriguing conversation with Clive Barker and director Anthony DiBlasi and a mostly unneeded collection of deleted scenes. This feature is part of the "After Dark Horrorfest 8 Films to Die For: Part 4" collection. Score: 5 out of 10 Extras and Packaging This single-disc DVD comes packed in a black amaray case with a glossy slipcover. The mix does a fine job sneaking into rear channels, and bass is used fairly frequently, but the cluttered mixture of dialogue, effects and soundtrack make for an unsatisfying listening experience. Effects are incredibly loud, distracting dialogue and other elements (dialogue is equally overbearing, though). Just about every aspect of this mix feels crowded and clogged. Languages and Audio Audio choices are English Dolby Digital 5.1 with Spanish subtitles and English captions for the hearing impaired. More and more, horror fans have come to accept less and less, substituting gore for quality, accepting the bare minimum of plot in place of story and idea … The boogeymen have been reduced to black cats, leaping from alleys sleepless nights into soft swells of nervous laughter. The Lionsgate/ Midnight Meat Train debacle was perhaps the most recent and flagrant example of a studio so carelessly dismissing not simply an artist, but those who appreciate the art, in favor of the continued mainstreaming of a genre in desperate need of new blood. This, in proportion to the myriad of aborted adaptations, shelved releases and sub-par sequels suffered by Barker and his fans throughout the decades. That we ever got such classic horror fare as Hellraiser or Hellbound, Candyman Nightbreed – a film still celebrated despite the studio's regrettable hatchet job – is something of an all-out miracle. The horror was always too horrific the violence too violent the sex too erotic, or the thoughts too thoughtful. For the mainstream tastes of the well-suited Hollywood elite, Barker never quite got the recipe right. A mind as eloquent and twisted and grand and poetic as Clive Barker's was never really meant for the movies.