In a strange way though he did a pretty good job. "[33] Horror fiction scholar John Kenneth Muir also praised the film in his book Horror Films of the 1980s, writing: "The thrill of a picture like Terror Train is the shrewd manner in which it plays against audience expectations; the sense that the slasher film paradigm gives it parameters which it can then undercut, subvert, and if needs be, violate. magician crammed inside one of his escape boxes, pierced by a succession of Also along are Carne, the train conductor, and a magician hired to entertain the crowd. the ladies. In the (Steve Michaels) a few minutes later, he is astonished to see the lifeless Three years later, the members of the same fraternities and sororities hold a New Year's Eve costume party aboard a train. and Alana arriving to comfort him. is so obvious in its premise, so transparent and one-dimensional swords. below. But what is, at "[31] Leonard Maltin concurred, claiming that the "stylish photography and the novelty of the killer donning the costume of each successive victim lift this slightly above most in this disreputable genre. There is some confusion about David Copperfield's character's name. Carne rushes to the locomotive to discover it unattended. [16] The bulk of the film's train sequences were shot first, while the film's opening sequence was shot on December 22, 1979, the penultimate day of the shoot; filming of it took place at a real fraternity house belonging to McGill University. "[24], A review in the Los Angeles Times praised the film's atmosphere and characterized it as "stylish, scary fun". Sneaking into his prop room, she finds the [12][13], To create the train for the film, the producers leased an actual Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive from the Steamtown Foundation in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Alana, who has had time to now disguised as Groucho, stalks a drunken Mitchy next, but decides to derail º Riding the Rails: An Interview with Production Executive Don Carmody. [9][8] The train's engine was renumbered from its original 1293 to 1881, and, along with five passenger cars, painted black with silver stripes. [17] Utilizing a variety of bulbs with different wattages, and controlling them with the external dimmers, Alcott could light the set in a very fast, efficient manner. Scorpion Releasing released a new limited edition Blu-ray edition on July 22, 2019 exclusively through Ronin Flix. "The boys and girls of Sigma Phi" are celebrating their undergraduate graduation by boarding an excursion train for a costume party on a snowy winter's night. A neat name. with no radio contact available. Actually, he has been prematurely She tells him the magician is dead, and lays her head on the table, when he grabs her by her wrists. [7] The shoot began on November 21, 1979, and was completed on December 23. Eventually, he slumps over in the lower birth under Mitchy’s corpse with Carne were my parents? [7], There was no stage show magician in the original script, but producer Howard was a fan of magic tricks and illusions, so a magician character was written in. Any plot will do. Posted on January 27, 2020 by Michael Juvinall in Blu-Ray Releases // 0 Comments The 1980 slasher film, TERROR TRAIN will be re-released on Blu-ray special edition this April by Scorpion Releasing. Ken, the magician in another containing his props. Carne and Charlie stop the train and they sequester the students in one car; while doing so, two pullman porters find the corpse of Pet, another student. Movies like Terror Train, and all of its sordid predecessors and its rip-offs still to come, just don't care. bathrooms. gutted with a magician’s sword – the first of the casualties - left on the [a] Veteran actor Ben Johnson was cast as Carne, the train conductor, whom Grodnik said was "amused" to have been in a horror film amongst such a young cast. A full-length script for the film was composed by T. Y. Drake, and production was initiated within four months. Meanwhile, in the dining car, Ken, the magician (David Copperfield) and stashing Doc’s head and body in a pull-down upper birth. : An Interview with Production Designer Glenn Bydwell. [1] Because it was made under a Canadian tax shelter, Daniel Grodnik was appointed executive producer, as he was legally unable to serve as a primary producer. Jackson is repeatedly stabbed inside one of the [20], Terror Train opened in the United States on October 3, 1980, and grossed an estimate $8 million at the box office on a budget of $3.5 million. During a magic show held by the magician and his female assistant, Doc finds Mo stabbed to death, though the partying onlookers assume the scene to be a prank.

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