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[DVD Review] Train
3 December 2009 8:25 PM, PST
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Of all the possible reactions that one could have to a film (or album, or television show), there’s probably nothing worse than having it make you wonder if something you like was even good in the first place. For a long time, I have defended the Hostel series, arguing that it has a great deal more subtext than most critics give it credit for, and that its tonal inconsistencies are actually quite deliberate pieces of black humor on the part of director Eli Roth. Now I am confronted with Train, a film that is so similar in plot and theme that I can’t really argue that anything said in Hostel isn’t said here. Except that I really like Hostel, and Train totally sucks.
Traveling through Eastern Europe with her college wrestling team, Alex (Thora Birch) goes out one night with her friends after a humiliating defeat at
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DVD Round Up, Nov. 19, 2009: ‘Spread,’ ‘Open Road,’ ‘Train’
19 November 2009 3:17 PM, PST
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Chicago – The DVD Round-Up is back! Did you miss us? HollywoodChicago.com’s intermittent column designed to serve as a safety net for releases that may otherwise fall without notice is back with a motley crew of titles that have nearly nothing in common. Classic TV, drama, horror, copious sex, and Justin Timberlake. You make the connections.
“The Fugitive: Season Three, Volume One” was released on October 27th, 2009
“The Dead” was released on November 3rd, 2009.
“Spread” was released on November 10th, 2009.
“The Canyon,” “Open Road” and “Train” were released on November 17th, 2009
“The Fugitive: Season Three, Volume One”
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Synopsis: “The hit series The Fugitive is back, featuring the first 15 Season Three episodes, on DVD for the first time ever! Golden Globe Award winner David Janssen expertly portrays Dr. Richard Kimble, the pediatrician falsely accused of killing his wife, who needs to prove his innocence by leading the obsessive Lt.
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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 11/17/2009
17 November 2009 9:00 PM, PST
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I'm a little late on posting the list this week (I usually hit you with it on Sunday), but didn't want to miss my next-to-last pre-Thanksgiving chance to say "Gobble, Gobble! Motherfucker!" (Thankskilling, see below) again. Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this week in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List.
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Basement Jack
Karen Cook was your average high school student... until the night evil invaded her life. She would soon be known as the lone survivor of a seven-day killing spree perpetrated by a seventeen year old boy the world would come to call "Basement Jack". For the next eleven years, Karen Cook lived in fear that one day Basement Jack would be released. Then, a court hearing in 2006 found that Jack Riley had not received a
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DVD Releases: Nov. 17, 2009: Perform Rituals with Basement Jack in The Canyon
16 November 2009 11:46 AM, PST
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We have a little something for everyone this week: teenagers and newlyweds fighting for their survival, an alien-caused apocalypse, a revenge-starved botched abortion survivor, a Twilight spoof, and even a "dark" ballet.
But that's just the tip of the iceberg. We also get the obvious "pick of the week" Chan-Wook Park's highly acclaimed vampire priest saga Thirst, Thora Birch's not so acclaimed return to the genre in Train, goofy and gory holiday fare ThanksKilling, and Rituals, a long-lost gem from 1977 starring Hal Holbrook.
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Train (DVD Review)
11 November 2009 11:13 AM, PST
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Since the trend is on its last gasp, reflecting upon the concept of “torture porn” is now outdated and futile. Beyond that, I was never a big fan of the label, finding it a bit too obvious and silly. But if there’s any film that “torture porn” applies to, both in terms of the plot/content guidelines the genre has laid out and the banality of the phrase itself, it’s Train, out next week on DVD from Lionsgate.
In fairness, as a film, Gideon Raff’s nightmarish locomotive journey is just sort of mediocre; the problem lies more in what it represents. Originally proposed as a remake of the 1980 slasher Terror Train, the film was reconceived and retitled to become basically a remake of Hostel and the like. Alex (Thora Birch) and her wrestling team are on a tour of Eastern Europe—it’s not really made clear where,
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Train (DVD Review)
11 November 2009 11:13 AM, PST
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Since the trend is on its last gasp, reflecting upon the concept of “torture porn” is now outdated and futile. Beyond that, I was never a big fan of the label, finding it a bit too obvious and silly. But if there’s any film that “torture porn” applies to, both in terms of the plot/content guidelines the genre has laid out and the banality of the phrase itself, it’s Train, out next week on DVD from Lionsgate.
In fairness, as a film, Gideon Raff’s nightmarish locomotive journey is just sort of mediocre; the problem lies more in what it represents. Originally proposed as a remake of the 1980 slasher Terror Train, the film was reconceived and retitled to become basically a remake of Hostel and the like. Alex (Thora Birch) and her wrestling team are on a tour of Eastern Europe—it’s not really made clear where,
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Train (DVD Review)
11 November 2009 11:13 AM, PST
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Since the trend is on its last gasp, reflecting upon the concept of “torture porn” is now outdated and futile. Beyond that, I was never a big fan of the label, finding it a bit too obvious and silly. But if there’s any film that “torture porn” applies to, both in terms of the plot/content guidelines the genre has laid out and the banality of the phrase itself, it’s Train, out next week on DVD from Lionsgate.
In fairness, as a film, Gideon Raff’s nightmarish locomotive journey is just sort of mediocre; the problem lies more in what it represents. Originally proposed as a remake of the 1980 slasher Terror Train, the film was reconceived and retitled to become basically a remake of Hostel and the like. Alex (Thora Birch) and her wrestling team are on a tour of Eastern Europe—it’s not really made clear where,
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Train (DVD Review)
11 November 2009 11:13 AM, PST
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Since the trend is on its last gasp, reflecting upon the concept of “torture porn” is now outdated and futile. Beyond that, I was never a big fan of the label, finding it a bit too obvious and silly. But if there’s any film that “torture porn” applies to, both in terms of the plot/content guidelines the genre has laid out and the banality of the phrase itself, it’s Train, out next week on DVD from Lionsgate.
In fairness, as a film, Gideon Raff’s nightmarish locomotive journey is just sort of mediocre; the problem lies more in what it represents. Originally proposed as a remake of the 1980 slasher Terror Train, the film was reconceived and retitled to become basically a remake of Hostel and the like. Alex (Thora Birch) and her wrestling team are on a tour of Eastern Europe—it’s not really made clear where,
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Train (DVD Review)
11 November 2009 11:13 AM, PST
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Since the trend is on its last gasp, reflecting upon the concept of “torture porn” is now outdated and futile. Beyond that, I was never a big fan of the label, finding it a bit too obvious and silly. But if there’s any film that “torture porn” applies to, both in terms of the plot/content guidelines the genre has laid out and the banality of the phrase itself, it’s Train, out next week on DVD from Lionsgate.
In fairness, as a film, Gideon Raff’s nightmarish locomotive journey is just sort of mediocre; the problem lies more in what it represents. Originally proposed as a remake of the 1980 slasher Terror Train, the film was reconceived and retitled to become basically a remake of Hostel and the like. Alex (Thora Birch) and her wrestling team are on a tour of Eastern Europe—it’s not really made clear where,
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Red Band Trailer for Lionsgate's Bloody 'Train'
2 November 2009 11:36 AM, PST
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Gideon Raff's Train is finally arriving on DVD November 17 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Originally a remake of the classic 80's slasher Terror Train, this film starring Thora Birch, Derek Magyar, Gloria Votsis, Kavan Reece and Gideon Emery heads deep into Hostel territory. For those of you who love the blood and guts, mark your calendars for November 17. Beyond the break you'll find our exclusive look at the official red band trailer.
"Touring Eastern Europe with her college wrestling team, Alex (Thora Birch - American Beauty) attends a debauched late-night party that causes her and several teammates to miss their train to Odessa. Her coach is furious, but a mysterious woman offers the group a ride on an alternative train. The coach agrees, and the athletes, exhausted and hung over, gratefully climb aboard....More"
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Kier and Carradine’s Fall Down Dead coming to theaters
13 October 2009 2:19 PM, PDT
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Indie filmmaker Jon Keeyes, whose credits include the well-received American Nightmare and Suburban Nightmare, sent along news that his latest chiller Fall Down Dead will receive limited theatrical release via his Highland Myst Entertainment and New Film International. The movie will open in December in select cities nationwide; Keeyes passed on some photos, which you can see below.
Fall Down Dead stars genre fave Udo Kier (first photo) as The Picasso Killer, a serial murderer who turns his victims into works of art, and Lolita’s Dominique Swain (second photo) is Christie, a young woman trapped (along with six others) in a building one night with the madman. The late Carradine (third photo) appears as Wade, a bumbling security guard, and R. Keith Harris and Mehmet Gunsur co-star as detectives.
“This movie has everything I love about horror films,” Keeyes tells Fango. “Quirky characters with great conflict, an original twist on the killer,
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Train Comes To DVD November 17th!
25 August 2009 6:35 PM, PDT
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Train (a very loose remake of Terror Train) starring Thora Birch and Derek Magyar, written and directed by Gideon Raff will finally hit DVD on November 17th courtesy of Lionsgate. Below is the synopsis for the movie, as well as the DVD cover.
"Touring Eastern Europe with her college wrestling team, Alex (Thora Birch - American Beauty) attends a debauched late-night party that causes her and several teammates to miss their train to Odessa. Her coach is furious, but a mysterious woman offers the group a ride on an alternative train. The coach agrees, and the athletes, exhausted and hung over, gratefully climb aboard. However, this train harbors a deadly secret, and for Alex and her fellow passengers, a blood-soaked nightmare is just beginning."
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DVD news: Train art, new IFC/Mpi releases, etc.
25 August 2009 1:07 PM, PDT
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Lionsgate Home Entertainment sent Fango the cover art (see it below) for its DVD of Train, which we initially reported on here. Starring Thora Birch (pictured) and written/directed by Gideon Raff, the movie, in which a college wrestling team is butchered while traveling on an Eastern European train, arrives November 17. See our Raff interview in Fango #288, on sale in October.
IFC Films and Mpi Home Video sent along info and covers for a quartet of genre titles they’re jointly releasing in October. Streeting Oct. 13 are The Objective, the paranormal thriller centering on a group of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, directed and co-written by The Blair Witch Project’s Daniel Myrick (see our review here), and Left Bank, an acclaimed occult chiller by Belgian director Pieter Van Hees about a young woman encountering frightening phenomena after moving into her boyfriend’s apartment. Coming Oct. 27 are Sauna, a Finnish
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Train rolls in on DVD
24 August 2009 5:03 PM, PDT
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Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced that it will release Train to DVD in November. Written and directed by Gideon Raff, the film was originally conceived as a remake of 1980’s Jamie Lee Curtis-starrer Terror Train before evolving into more of a modern torture shocker on the order of the Hostel and Saw films.
Set to street November 17, Train stars Thora Birch as one of a group of American college wrestlers who miss a train while competing in Eastern Europe. They’re offered passage on a different train, and during the trip they discover that they may only disembark in pieces. No specs or special features have yet been announced for the disc, which will retail for $26.98; cover art is also forthcoming. See Fango #288, on sale in October, for an interview with Raff on Train.
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Train's First and Last Stop is DVD
24 August 2009 2:52 PM, PDT
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You don't really have to know much about the film industry to know which films will see the light of multiplexes and which ones will be banished to the hellish shelves of Blockbuster to prey on unsuspecting renters. From the very first glimpses of Train, I knew this one would fall into the later category, but even I'm surprised that it sat on the shelves long enough for Ulli Lomell to get two movies distributed. Christ, this can't be worse than anything he's made since 1980, right?
But Gideon Raff's Train is finally coming to DVD on November 17, according to Lionsgate's press release. Touring Eastern Europe with her college wrestling team, Alex (Thora Birch - American Beauty) attends a debauched late-night party that causes her and several teammates to miss their train to Odessa. Her coach is furious, but a mysterious woman offers the group a ride on an alternative train.
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Lionsgate Sets Date for Train Ride
24 August 2009
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The "it started as a remake of Terror Train but it just became a Hostel clone" thriller aptly called Train is coming to DVD after a long delay. The Gideon Raff-directed film, which finds Thora Birch fleeing from organ harvesters, arrives on November 17.
Lionsgate's revised synopsis goes like this: Touring Eastern Europe with her college wrestling team, Alex (Thora Birch - American Beauty) attends a debauched late-night party that causes her and several teammates to miss their train to Odessa. Her coach is furious, but a mysterious woman offers the group a ride on an alternative train. The coach agrees, and the athletes, exhausted and hung over, gratefully climb aboard. However, this train harbors a deadly secret, and for Alex and her fellow passengers, a
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New Trailer for "Train" Remake
1 June 2009 3:35 PM, PDT
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Here's the international trailer for Gideon Raff's "Train", which is still looking for a release through Lionsgate after premiering at last October's Screamfest Film Festival in CA.
The film tells the story of a group of athletes traveling abroad who miss their train and catch another one, with a bloody outcome.
Thora Birch, Zahary Baharov, Gideon Emery Bolt Birch are starring.
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New Trailer for Train Remake
1 June 2009 3:30 PM, PDT
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An international trailer for the upcoming "Terror Train" horror film has been released. It features some new footage and you can check it out by clicking on the link below. The story takes place in Europe, where a group of American college athletes unknowingly board a train that will become one deadly ride. The original 80s slasher film starred Jamie Lee Curtis. Gideon Raff is both writing and directing the new film. I don't recognize any of his previous work, but he was Doug Liman's assistant on "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." Click here to read more about "Train."
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Train Trailer
1 June 2009 9:09 AM, PDT
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The Terror Train remake(?), now titled Train, really missed the boat trying to milk the now dead Hostel craze. The film is being released in Japan and Fangoria got their hands on the the trailer, but there is still no word from Lionsgate on when we will be able to see it in the U.S.. If we even want to see it in the U.S. that is...
Actually it doesn't look that bad for a direct to DVD release, and I'm willing to check it out.
Train basically follows a group of athletes traveling abroad who get murdered on...take a guess! It also stars Thora Birch for those of you who still may find that is exciting.
Watch the trailer below and let us know what you think.
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International Trailer for Train
1 June 2009
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Train , the Thora Birch-starring film that started as a remake to Terror Train but became its own thing, has opened in Japan. If you visit this site now you can check out an international trailer for the film written and directed by Gideon Raff.
Read our review for it here .
Train concerns an American wrestling team who unknowingly board a train that is a haven for organ harvesters. Lionsgate has reportedly picked the film up for U.S. distribution, however, the studio has not announced its distribution plans.
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