Terror Train

Name: Terror Train
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: October 3, 1980
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 42
Cast: Anthony Sherwood, Ben Johnson, David Copperfield, Derek McKinnon, Hart Bochner

1980

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Astral Films | Release Date: October 3, 1980 | R

Starring: Anthony Sherwood, Ben Johnson, David Copperfield, Derek McKinnon, Hart Bochner, Howard Busgang, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sandee Currie, Steve Michaels, Timothy Webber

Summary: Three years after a prank went terribly awry, the six college students responsible are targeted by a masked killer at a New Year's Eve party aboard a moving train.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 97 min

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Walter Addiego

The bloodshed is somewhat less gory than in many slasher films -- with stress on the "somewhat." [26 Sep 2004]

R.L. Shaffer

Terror Train doesn't really hold up, but it does offer a fun dose of low-brow slasher mayhem. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine 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). Read full review

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Still, better than most of its kind. Read full review

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. Read full review

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. Read full review

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. Read full review

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villain_edits

Feb 28, 2022

É ok, tem uma ótima ideia mas não é tão bem aproveitada assim (Um remake bem feito seria muito bom), as mortes são só ok também, não tem muito o que falar, eu gostei mas queria que fosse melhor. Só recomendo pra quem é muito fã do subgênero slasher.

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HellHoleHorror

May 13, 2023

The first and biggest problem that I had with this who-done-it slasher outing is that the picture quality is horrible. I don't know if it was the original or the DVD that I had but the exposure was terrible. All of the blacks ran into each other and it was difficult to see what was going onThe first and biggest problem that I had with this who-done-it slasher outing is that the picture quality is horrible. I don't know if it was the original or the DVD that I had but the exposure was terrible. All of the blacks ran into each other and it was difficult to see what was going on a lot of the time. Technical gripes aside this is not the worst teen slasher in the world, it is also not the best and that is the problem. It is stuck somewhere in the middle of a large field. It is not especially scary and the tension rarely amounts to anything. The killing is unimaginative and the characters are dull. First time round I didn't guess who the killer was but I did remember it for the second viewing years later. It is far from terrifying, it is much closer to mundane.… Expand

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Computey18

Oct 18, 2022

Waste of an hour and half plus the only good parts of this movie is Jamie, The Conductor, and the Magician but everything else is boring and bad. This Movie Sucks.

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