Rue Morgue Magazine and Bloody Disgusting reports that Patrick Tatopoulous, who has done FX work on Underworld 2, Silent Hill and Cursed, will make his directorial debut on Clive Barker's "Midnight Meat Train".

Adapted for the big screen by Jeff Buhlerwill, Lions Gate Films has already acquired distribution rights for the film which features a commuter's run-in with a New York subway serial killer and a horde of subterranean cannibals.

On the other front, Barker's story Plague is being helmed by Hal Masonberg (production assistant on Demonic Toys). The film is about teenagers who emerge from mysterious comas and attack their parents.

As for the "Books of Blood" adaptation in the works, Barker says "there are 30 stories in the books [Books of Blood], and I think fifteen or sixteen of them are adaptable, and if we had a little more money that number would go up to 23 or 24".

Thanks to 'Brad'