Terror Train
Astral Films | Release Date: October 3, 1980 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
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Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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100
San Francisco ChronicleWalter Addiego
The bloodshed is somewhat less gory than in many slasher films -- with stress on the "somewhat." [26 Sep 2004]
65
IGNR.L. Shaffer
Terror Train doesn't really hold up, but it does offer a fun dose of low-brow slasher mayhem. Read full review
60
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Still, better than most of its kind. Read full review
60
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Roger Spottiswoode, vet editor who co-authored a respected book on the subject with Karel Reisz, makes a competent directing debut here. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineStaff (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
50
The New York TimesJohn 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
40
Chicago ReaderDave 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
30
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)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-TimesRoger 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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