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Terror Train (1980)

Directed by Roger Spotttiswoode (Tomorrow Never Dies)

It's New Year's Eve for the boys and girls of Sigma Phi.  Some will live.  Some will die.

"A few things make this worth enduring the familiar slaughter-movie elements: Stanley Kubrick's favorite cinematographer, John Alcott, is aboard, doing a fine job, despite the problems of shooting within the confines of an actual train; the plot has a couple of bizarre twists that keep the whodunit aspect going until the final reel; and Ben Johnson plays the fatherly conductor." - Michael J. Weldon, The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film

"Nicely photographed, moody, claustrophobic thriller with masked killer aboard a train filled with costumed party animals.  Magic tricks by David Copperfield, screams by Jamie Lee Curtis" - Chas. Balun, The Gore Score

"Superior to most of what's passing for horror these days." - Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News

"A well-mixed bag of seat's-edge trickery, a number of sympathetic characters, strong eerie atmosphere and nerve-jangling music." - Matt Damsker, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin

Take and excursion into terror with Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween, Love Letters, The Fog) in this classic shocker from director Roger Spottiswoode (Tomorrow Never Dies, Under Fire, Shoot to Kill).  

It's New Year's Eve, and a group of college coeds have planned a masquerade bash aboard a chartered train.  What they didn't plan on was that a knife-wielding psycho would crash the party and begin slaughtering the guests one by one!  Who is this brutal costumed killer?  Could it be the mysterious magician (David Copperfield) with a talent for swordplay... a former frat pledge with an axe to grind... or any number of other guests, both invited and uninvited?

Also starring Academy Award-Winner Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show, The Hunter, The Getaway, Dillinger, The Town That Dreaded Sundown), Hart Bochner (Die Hard, Apartment Zero), Sandee Currie (Gas, Street Justice) and D.D. 'Vanity' Winters (52 Pick-Up, Action Jackson).

Restoration courtesy of TVA Films and American Genre Film Archive.