100
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]
Terror Train
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- Canada,
- United States
- 1980
- · 97m
Director
Roger Spottiswoode
Cast
Jamie Lee Curtis,
Ben Johnson,
Hart Bochner,
David Copperfield,
Derek MacKinnon
Genre
Horror,
Thriller
A college fraternity prank goes wrong, and a student ends up in the mental asylum. Three years later, six fraternity members decide to have a costume party aboard a train trip to celebrate New Years Eve. Unbeknownst to them, someone is killing them off one by one, disguised in the costumes of the victims.
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65
IGN
Terror Train doesn't really hold up, but it does offer a fun dose of low-brow slasher mayhem.
65
IGN by R.L. Shaffer
Terror Train doesn't really hold up, but it does offer a fun dose of low-brow slasher mayhem.
60
TV Guide Magazine
Better than most in the slice-and-dice genre, Terror Train has a couple of decent performances from Ben Johnson and Jamie Lee Curtis, great photography from John Alcott (Barry Lyndon; The Shining), and some atmospheric direction from Roger Spottiswoode (Under Fire).
60
Variety
Roger Spottiswoode, vet editor who co-authored a respected book on the subject with Karel Reisz, makes a competent directing debut here.
60
Time Out
Still, better than most of its kind.
60
Time Out by Staff (Not Credited)
Still, better than most of its kind.
60
Variety by Staff (Not Credited)
Roger Spottiswoode, vet editor who co-authored a respected book on the subject with Karel Reisz, makes a competent directing debut here.
60
TV Guide Magazine by Staff (Not Credited)
Better than most in the slice-and-dice genre, Terror Train has a couple of decent performances from Ben Johnson and Jamie Lee Curtis, great photography from John Alcott (Barry Lyndon; The Shining), and some atmospheric direction from Roger Spottiswoode (Under Fire).
50
The New York Times
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.
50
The New York Times by John Corry
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.
40
Chicago Reader by Dave Kehr
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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