Terror Train (1980)
5/10
Slasher that was interesting just because of the premise, but it doesn't have complete character, but has forgivable killer...
1 July 2012
Warning: Spoilers
For horror movies, 80's were golden era, especially when we are talking about movies in which starred Jamie Lee Curtis. I don't like her role of Alana in this massacre. She was bland, irrational and uninteresting. But I have to admit, that she managed to show us great acting skills and strength near the climax of movie, when she was confronting with murder. I like Mitchy from all characters, but she has little screen time and that time was wasted. She seemed just a comic, naughty girl at the beginning, but later she became like a real hooker. I didn't like that transformation. Boys were idiots, except Jackson who was real fun to watch, but he left train early. Coperfield was interesting thing and i enjoyed his tricks. He add something fresh to this movie and to the genre. Killer is pathetic, not so much scary, but he little shocked me at the end. Also I like how he died. Atsmophere of this movie is boring, delivering nothing suspenseful, because you know who the killer is all the time. All murders are off screen, well almost and not so creative. Aside from suspense-free, bland setting and 2-dimensional characters I like the end,premise, Alana's chase and Coperfield, but it's totally hard to believe in killer. He can't show any emotion, like a statue.

Watch this, if you don't have anything special to do, but don't expect too much. It little disappointed me , because, like I said that was golden era for horror movies, but most likely I watched too many horror movies and that's the reason why I thought this was too much rotten and little fresh.

5/10
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