Synopsis
A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.
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Cast
- Jamie Lee CurtisAlana Maxwell
- Ben JohnsonCarne
- Hart BochnerDoc Manley
- David CopperfieldThe Magician
- Derek MacKinnonKenny Hampson
- Sandee CurrieMitchy
- Timothy WebberMo
- Anthony SherwoodJackson
- Howard BusgangEd
- Steve MichaelsBrakeman
Recommendations
- 100
San Francisco Chronicle
The bloodshed is somewhat less gory than in many slasher films -- with stress on the "somewhat." [26 Sep 2004] - 65
IGN
Terror Train doesn't really hold up, but it does offer a fun dose of low-brow slasher mayhem. - 60
Time Out
Still, better than most of its kind. - 60
Variety
Roger Spottiswoode, vet editor who co-authored a respected book on the subject with Karel Reisz, makes a competent directing debut here. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
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). - 50
The New York Times
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. - 40
Chicago Reader
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. - 30
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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]
