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Riding the coattails of the resurgent boom in horror films after the success of Halloween, Terror Train features teeth-chattering direction by Roger Spottiswoode and pristine cinematography from John Alcott. The story is the basic slasher film premise, remounted on a moving train. A college fraternity decides to hold a New Year's Eve party on a train. But an uninvited guest, a disturbed ex-fraternity member, decides to take revenge on the partying students by killing them off one by one in
R, 1 hr. 37 min.
Jan 1, 1980 Wide
Sep 7, 2004
All Critics (16) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (7) | DVD (4)
Really darn great by slasher standards, and even kind of pretty good by the standards of decent, functional, God-fearing modes of cinema.
A run-of-the-mill slasher film whose central gimmick is setting its action on a train.
Just a little more skillfully done than many of its contemporaries, and whatever esteem I have for it is largely nostalgic, but at least it tries to be different.
Better than most of its kind.
Sends you a chill down the spine that won't subside until those final few minutes...see it before the upcoming remake
Holds the tension in a bone-chilling manner.
Mediocre slasher from the 80's. Interesting setting for a slasher film having it unfold onboard a train, but that's about the only bit of originality about it. The kills themselves are mostly gore-free and tame, and the killers' big reveal is predictable. The best moments are of David Copperfield's tricks during his
January 13, 2011
Super Reviewer
This is just an average slasher movie, it seems to try to be a train mystery movie at the same time, but it really isn't. This movie is really boring most of the time. I didn't like this one at all, and I don't recommend seeing it.
September 6, 2010Super Reviewer
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