Review of Terror Train (1980) by Jose M — 29 Sep 2011

Terror Train comes to us as we have a number of young and party ready college students going aboard the Terror Train. One of the party ready students is the very prudish Jamie Lee Curtis as she wine and complains again.

We have Ben Johnson as the conductor. Dang, he has a pretty good voice I picture him going around the train singing. There is going to be music and games, but there is also going to be a magic show with David Copperfield.

We then join and party inside the train where we are stalked by a very uninteresting and boring killer that switches masks back and forth. Meanwhile, Jamie Lee Curtis goes on and on being very prudish which makes us follow Ben Johnson.

The movie is neither scary nor suspenseful, but it is a better film than Prom Night. I am sure there was another movie with a killer on a train, but only that film was concentrating on suspense. Here we have some decent aftermath gore.

What is that? Aftermath gore is the results after someone is killed. It does not show you the scene of the cut happening, but it does show you after the violence are committed. What is worse is some of the tepid acting from the teenage cast, but not so much on Ben Johnson and David Copperfield.

There are some funny bits, but not enough to really recommend it. I would have given this a 1 Â 1/2 star, but I will give it 2 because of the decent performance from Ben Johnson and extra point from Copperfield.

I do not think I will step into this train anytime soon. What a cool name, Spottiswoode. I thought it was Spottingwood.