
A college fraternity prank goes wrong and a student ends up in the mental asylum. Three years later, it's graduation time, and the members of the fraternity decide to have a costume party aboard a train trip to celebrate their graduation. Unknowingly to them, a killer has slipped aboard, killing them off one by one, disguised in the costumes of the victims.... (Full plot summary below)
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A college fraternity prank goes wrong and a student ends up in the mental asylum. Three years later, it's graduation time, and the members of the fraternity decide to have a costume party aboard a train trip to celebrate their graduation. Unknowingly to them, a killer has slipped aboard, killing them off one by one, disguised in the costumes of the victims.
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| San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoTerror Train doesn't really hold up, but it does offer a fun dose of low-brow slasher mayhem. |
| Lessons of DarknessNick SchagerA run-of-the-mill slasher film whose central gimmick is setting its action on a train. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonReally darn great by slasher standards, and even kind of pretty good by the standards of decent, functional, God-fearing modes of cinema. |
| MTVCharles WebbTerror Train is at best workmanlike in its matter-of-fact killings and downright silly and nonsensical in the way the mystery and fake-outs are handled. |
| Film ThreatClint MorrisSends you a chill down the spine that won't subside until those final few minutes...see it before the upcoming remake |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesJust 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. |
| The New York TimesJohn CorryThe 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. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrThis 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)Jay ScottTerror 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. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe classic horror films of the 1930s appealed to the intelligence of its audiences, to their sense of humor and irony. Movies like Terror Train... just don't care. They're a series of sensations, strung together on a plot. |