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The intention here was to make a thriller, a suspense movie about some people trapped on a train, waiting for an unknown killer to strike. The problem is that they don't do very much else except wait.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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This 1979 teenage horror film has no redeeming style: it's a straight, pedestrian cop of Halloween, from the opening shock to the climactic battle against the psycho.
30
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Jay Scott
The premise - a crazed killer abused years before returns to wreak vengeance on the young - is so familiar that the audience can predict (and does: loudly) every "shock." [15 Oct 1980]
25
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Terror Train is a curious hybrid that doesn't seem to know just what it wants to be. It has, I guess, few artistic pretensions, and yet it's not a rock-bottom-budget, schlock exploitation film.
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San Francisco Chronicle by Walter Addiego
The bloodshed is somewhat less gory than in many slasher films -- with stress on the "somewhat." [26 Sep 2004]