Terror Train
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| Terror Train | |
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| Image:Terrortrainposter.jpg theatrical poster | |
| Directed by | Roger Spottiswoode |
| Produced by | Harold Greenberg |
| Written by | T.Y. Drake |
| Starring | Ben Johnson Jamie Lee Curtis Hart Bochner David Copperfield |
| Music by | John Mills-Cockell |
| Cinematography | John Alcott |
| Editing by | Anne Henderson |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | October 3, 1980 |
| Running time | 97 min. |
| Country | Canada/United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,500,000 |
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| IMDb profile | |
Terror Train is a 1980 Canadian-made horror film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Ben Johnson, directed by Roger Spottiswoode. It was filmed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from November 21, 1979 to December 23, 1979.
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[edit] Plot
A college fraternity prank backfires and a student who was played a prank on ends up in a mental ward. 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. Unbeknownst to them, a killer has slipped aboard and is killing them one by one, disguised in the costumes of the victims. in the end, Alana(Jamie Lee Curtis) confronts the killer is Kenny Hampson, the magician's asisstant.After talking to Alana, Kenny begins to have an episode. Carne, the conductor, swings a huge sledge-hammer at Kenny causing him to fly off the train from a trestle. The next few shots show Kenny's body floating down a icy stream. The last shot shows the train setting out into the icy North before the credits roll.
[edit] Information
Halloween made Jamie Lee Curtis a young star; starring in three horror films in one year made her a "Scream Queen". Terror Train is probably the least remembered of these films. Released in the USA on October 3, 1980 by 20th Century Fox, the film probably suffered from overexposure of its main star. The Fog and Prom Night had already been released to theaters, and enjoyed some success at the height of the early 1980s horror craze. Terror Train was first released on VHS home video in the late 1980s by Key Home Video. A DVD was finally released and is available with different cover art than the original VHS version. Original VHS copies were fetching up to $30 USD on eBay before the DVD was available.
This was the first motion picture directed by Spottiswoode. He later went on to direct the films Turner & Hooch and Air America. He is an Emmy Award winning director, who has also won several other directing honors.
[edit] Selected cast
- Ben Johnson as Carne (Train Conductor)
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Alana Maxwell
- Hart Bochner as Doc Manley
- David Copperfield as Ken the Magician
- Derek McKinnon as Kenny Hampson (and the Magician's Assistant)
- Sandee Currie as Mitchy
- Timothy Webber as Mo
- Anthony Sherwood as Jackson
- Howard Busgang as Ed
- Steve Michaels as Charley the train Brakeman
- Greg Swanson as the Class President
- Vanity (credited as D.D. Winters) as Merry
- Joy Boushel as Pet
- Victor Knight as Walter the Engineer
- Donald Lamoureux as Shovels the Stoker (as Don Lamoureux)
[edit] Remake
A remake is in production, and is set for a 2008 release. Thora Birch is set to play Alana Maxwell.
[edit] External links
fr:Le Monstre du trainru:Поезд террора (фильм)
