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.
Terror Train
Canada, United States · 1980
Rated R · 1h 37m
Director Roger Spottiswoode
Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner, David Copperfield
Genre Horror, Thriller
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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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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.
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]
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.
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]
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