Terror Train 2 (2022) User Reviews

Unnecessary sequel to an unnecessary remake of a not-quite cult classic thriller.

[kamikaze-4 · 5/10 · 8 January 2023]

In this version, our heroine boards the train only to find more murder and mayhem on the infamous Terror Train. In the first film, it was easy to figure out the killer's I. D. and motivation. I mean, you couldn't figure out who it was and why?

I give kudos to the scriptwriters for making the guessing game a wee bit harder to I. D the killer. I had the killer's I. D. pegged early on. This time, the red herrings made the guessing game difficult. Maybe the killer was this person? Maybe the other? After all, was said and done, I was right all along.

The one annoying thing was the inclusion of characters from the first film. They had nothing to offer to the plot but to remind you of their presence from the first film.

A high body count might make splatter hounds rejoice, but in the long run, this movie is slightly better than its predecessor.

Stabs and Kisses

[nogodnomasters · 5/10 · 20 January 2023]

Since they already have the set, why not make the same film again? Alana (Robyn Alomar) is an emotional mess. Her friend Claudia (Nia Roam) arranges for her to "face her fear" by riding the Terror Train again for a New Year's party with the survivors of the first group and the magician (Tim Rozon) who was killed in the first film from multiple stab wounds. The body of the first killer, "Throw Mama From the Train" was never found. She becomes the main suspect killer. Claudia is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near Alana and there is a new creepy looking guy who works on train. With WiFi working everyone is broadcasting and Alana is the most famous Final Girl in the world who does not want the spotlight.

You should have seen the first film before watching this one. If you found this one on Tubi, it is one up and two over. Basically it is the same as the first film. The big mystery is how did the Magician survive skewered as much as was in first feature?

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

Kind of dull for a horror

[acedj · 6/10 · 20 January 2023]

On the anniversary of the killings from the fist movie, someone gets the bright idea to rent out another train, in a way of showing that life is still going.

Our protagonist and a few of the other survivors board the train for what was supposed to be a healing trip. They are joined by a large group of murder obsessed people. Shockingly enough, people start getting killed.

The writers do a pretty fair job in trying to throw you off the scent of the killer's identity, but anyone that has seen these movies before will do a decent job of figuring out who it is.

The killings are done with a variety of weapons, but the production team went with CGI to show stabbings, a bad idea. They were very clearly not real and they should have spent a few more of those precious Canadian dollars on better effects.

All in all, not a terrible movie and yet not a good one either. It moved really slow and I had a difficult time keeping my attention on it.

This movie is very bad and not worth your time

[kevin_robbins · 1/10 · 30 April 2023]

Terror Train 2 (2022) is currently available on Tubi and picks up after the last film with the survivors from the first Terror train. Alana, who was the hero from the first adventure, has received national attention but is also struggling mentally recovering from the event. Her friends and psychologist think getting on a train again to help recover from the past events is the logical next step. As she gets on the train, the horrors begin again. Is it all in her head or is she the target of another vicious serial killer?

This movie is directed by Philippe Gagnon (Terror Train, 2022) and stars Robyn Alomar (Utopia Falls), Nadine Bhabha (The Christmas Exchange), Nia Roam (Polar), Romy Weltman (Backstage), Tim Rozon (Lost Girl) and Daniel Gravelle (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark).

This movie was definitely rushed and feels like it in every way. The writing for the storyline doesn't know if it's a sequel or a remake. The dialogue, writing and acting is awful...somehow much worse than the first film despite the same director and many returning cast members. The kills and gore are very inconsistent, but there was one throat slash/stab that was excellent.

Overall, this movie is very bad and not worth your time. I would score this a 1/10 and strongly recommend skipping it.

Not bad!

[BandSAboutMovies · 5/10 · 30 December 2022]

It might be a surprise to some of you that Tubi has a remake of Terror Train on their streaming service. Well, double that because they're already released the sequel just a few months after their 2022 remake.

Director Philippe Gagnon and writers Ian Carpenter and Aaron Martin have returned for what happens one year after the first film, as Alana (Robyn Alomar) and the Magician (Tim Rozon), as well as several other survivors have been talked into boarding the Terror Train one more time on New Year's Eve and riding it into another dark night. Certainly the new WiFi and improved security will stop another killer from wiping everyone out again, right?

We wouldn't have a movie if things went right.

Alana has struggled with PTSD over the past year, which has nearly derailed her medical school studies, yet her new best friend Claudia (Nia Roam) has helped her to piece things back together. It's her idea to kill off the old year and start new on the same train which has damaged her friend so much, yet she may not have Alana's best interests in mind. Speaking of her mind, Alana keeps seeing visions of her lost friend Mitchy (Emma Elle Paterson) nearly everywhere she goes, which causes major issues when the murder starts all over again, as she can't be certain of her reality any longer. The same trauma impacts the Magician, who barely survived being stabbed multiple times and has found that he can barely perform and is only on the train at the insistence of Prez (Dakota Jamal Wellman), another survivor piecing his life back together and using this night to get past the, well, past.

There's also a whole cadre of murder-obsessed mean girl social media influencers, like Pet (Romy Weltman), Morbid Merry (Tori Barban) and Lucy (Lisa Truong) who get off on being on the actual true crime train. The film hits the right notes way more often than the first film, as the exploration of returning back to the train feels like exploitation but it leans in and makes the more troubled -- and yet saner -- characters question why they're really here while the clout chasers have no idea that they're in danger. Hopefully new conductor Sadie (Nadine Bhabha) can erase the stigma of Carnie -- the SPOILER WARNING -- conductor killer of the first film in this remake cycle.

This has just as many twists as the remake but somehow, I liked this even more. Maybe it's because the lizard mask is back instead of just keeping the killer as a clown. Maybe it's just that I love surprises and seeing this show up was one of those. Or perhaps I just love slashers, with a Letterboxd list of nearly 750 of them to show for it. Either way -- I think you'll find something to like here. I could do without the CGI blood, but here's hoping for practical gore in the inevitable third remake sequel.

Another solid Tubi original slasher

[freesquire · 5/10 · 16 January 2023]

Agree with others, this is a solid sequel to a solid remake. Tubi is doing the right thing in the slasher genre, and that is sticking to the tried and true formula of a slasher. Don't reinvent it, just do it right.

This movie is exactly what you'd expect in a Terror Train sequel. Soundtrack used effectively and enough practical effects mixed in with off screen kills to keep it bloody and not break the budget.

Acting is solid, the Magician and Pet were standouts but overall good performances. It was ironic that some characters were chiding the lead, Alana, for making it all about "her" while most of her dialogue WAS actually shifting the narrative back to her. Good for a perhaps unintended chuckle.

Keep it up Tubi, the formula works. Maybe a good Sleepaway Camp style next time !

Decent Sequel 2 Decent Rmake

[KobraPower · 5/10 · 9 January 2023]

Not bad but the only thing I couldn't buy was the killer in the sequel. Just too unbelievable for this character and the motive was absurd. I don't want to spoil it but I strongly believe a different killer with a non laughable motive would have made this better. Still believe the first remake was stronger. The sequel just not as good.

The acting is pretty decent. The Magician was a perfect cast for this role. Alana is also pretty good as well as the conductor. The rest of the cast is OK. Cinematographer did a good job as well and I believe the scenes are lit quite well. All in all, entertaining.

The ID of the Killer is Utterly Ridiculous...

[talentest · 3/10 · 15 April 2024]

Granted the killer in the first one ultimately turned out to be an elderly grandmother, so maybe the killer in the second one is really on par. I'm jumping straight into spoilers and on just this one topic in this review, since I don't really care to say much else about this movie...

SPOILER WARNING:

The ID of the killer... turns out to be...

Tinkerbell... a 5 foot, 92 pound influencer in a fairy costume. When we see her wielding the knife she'd been using the whole movie to kill everyone, the blade is over half the length of her entire arm. She is unequivocally the tiniest and shortest person of any scene she is in.

Yet somehow, when she dresses up as the lizard monk she's suddenly taller than everyone in the cast?! Most flagrant is in the scene in the hallway when walking past Alana and following Merry, both of whom she now towers over. Jean-Paul, the guy she is pretending to be dressed as appears to be much taller, up there with the actors for Xndr and the Prez.

(Speaking of the Prez, man did he just totally disappear from the movie after that magic act scene half way through the film. No death scene, no reappearance at the end, just gone like he had just filmed a cameo.)

Anyhow, the killer turning out to be the size and weight of a blow-up doll with a knife taking down 6-foot dudes is just asking too much of my disbelief to suspend.

Pretty fun sequel

[kyleallencole9 · 6/10 · 25 December 2023]

I won't spoil anything, but after watching this one and the terror train Remake back to back, I thought I figured out who the killer was because the the killer at the end of the first one didn't die out there on the tracks. So I assumed it could be the same killer, but with a cleverly done twist, it was someone else this time. The killer was pretty crazy, but not as deranged as the first killer.

However the kills in this week just as gory and pretty cool.

Liked how this time the survivors and a few others were being the ones killed off. The killer still wears different costumes in it also.

Overall pretty cool! Hoping for maybe a third one soon!

2 things WRONG with this Ridiculous Movie

[Frank_MaSSa · 1/10 · 11 March 2023]

#1 - It's Crappy Tax Deduction & It's CANADIAN CRAP

And

#2 - IT'S CANADIAN CRAP ! 😏👎

Seriously man, Canadian film & TV just completely SUCKS. So cheaply made and sadly the actors that get casted ( not their fault) just can't cut the mustard .

Way Too much allowed Canadian TAX Deductions for CANADIAN CRAP... Although, the Quebec French film industry makes amazing film & TV because they take risks, unlike Canadian CRAP they wanna keep it safe and so damn SANITIZED!🙄👎

That's the problem with English Canadian FILM & TV.. They take advantage of the government tax entertainment credits and make CRAP so it's Tax Deductible.

Choo Choo

[catwantsin · 9/10 · 1 January 2023]

TERROR TRAIN 2 2022

Tagline: Nope.

Horror, Mystery, Choo Choo

Note: This movie was direct to Tubi's streaming service. It was not given an MPAA rating, but would definitely have been an R.

Maybe when she saw a sicko like you try to turn a tragedy into her own personal brand for some lame a-s murder app.

This is the direct follow up to TERROR TRAIN 2022. This time around they have turned the train where all of the murders happened over a year earlier into a train called "Terror Train". The train will allow any passengers that are college seniors, but The Prez is encouraging the passengers that survived the original slashing to take the ride again as a method of "cleansing" their fears and traumas. The party is dubbed the New Year's Eve redemption ride. It doesn't take long before the bodies start piling up as a new sinister killer is terrorizing the ride, but who is it?

It's pretty rare for a movie to come out and in the same year, its own sequel comes out, but I decided to check this out because the remake of TERROR TRAIN was actually pretty good with a really interesting twist. I like that they brought back a few of the original characters, but they do a pretty good job of giving us a reason they would be interested. When I was younger I had a lot of idiot friends that would have gladly done an idiotic thing after it almost killed them the first time. That is part of why very few of them are "still" friends. I will say that none of my friends were murder or true crime obsessed. One thing this sequel does is keep the level of how moral debased people can be. There is a girl on the train named Pet (who was also in the first one) that is live streaming the ride poking fun at the events of the first train ride.

The tension this script creates between the characters is shockingly high quality for a horror flick that wasn't going to theaters. Writers Aaron Martin and Ian Carpenter has a bit of an underground series of cult classics brewing here. Robyn Alomar crushes the role of Alana once again. She plays a more traumatized version of Alana in this one, but it makes sense given the events of the first one. Tim Rozon also returns as The Magician and is also good and slightly creepy in this one. We get Tori Barban back as Merry. She is just as dense as before. Dakota Jamal Wellman returns as The Prez and his character is more likable in this one even if his motives for doing a terror train is shaky. Romy Weltman returns as Pet and plays the role with the same consistency. She is the only one of the 4 acting talents I have mentioned so far that didn't do a "Christmas" movie in between the TERROR TRAIN flicks. Nadine Bhabha returns as Sadie and is now actually the trains conductor. One of the few newcomers with a lot of screen time is Nia Roam as Claudia.

Cinematically this is low budget so walk into it like you would be watching something that doesn't have big time Hollywood production and you might be pleasantly surprised if you like old school style slashers. The acting for the most part is pretty good, but there is one cast member that seems slightly out of place. I won't go into who the cast member is, but it will be noticeable. If I have any complaints, it's that there is at least one really unnecessary scene where a few characters end up kneeling at the altar of wokeness. On the upside, the scene is extremely short, so it's not going to affect my score for the film. This one also has an outstanding score.

A lot like the first one this one has a "really" unexpected ending. Both of these films feature master class misdirection. Not sure if there will be any more films in this series, but the first 2 are both weirdly impressive.

This one gets a 8 out of 10.

A highly enjoyable sequel that has quite a lot to like

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 8/10 · 17 August 2023]

Still traumatized by the previous rampage, a survivor of a crazed killer is talked into going on a train ride commemorating the original massacre and get over the incident, but when it starts happening again finds herself forced to take action to save her friends and stop the mysterious killer.

This one turned into a generally fun if slightly problematic effort. One of the better features here is the fine work spent on integrating the events of the two films to feel like a genuine sequel. The main gist here involving her life coming apart dealing with her trauma affecting her surgical aspirations and turning into a paranoid psycho that can't be anything in the train without being reminded of the previous encounters is all incredibly fair and realistic. That carries over into the other setups involved here, with the exploits of the other survivors ranging quite reasonably from those still dealing but getting over the issue to using the experience to become a faux celebrity in an online community devoted to the incident. There's a lot to like here with these conflicting setups coming into play. As this is set up quite nicely, that turns the film into a stellar mystery about the nature of the killer committing the murders. Abandoning the concept of having the killer stalk anyone by going for the shocking ambush of the victim not believing the costumed person will hurt them before the killing blow, this one becomes a solid series of discussions and realizations about the killer's identity and purpose. This adds a layer of intrigue and suspense as the inability to really nail down a real definitive red herring which makes the stalking and ambushes here come off quite nicely. In addition to this, there's a lot to like here with the kills on display which are a bit more brutal than expected and have a fun component to them also being usually livestreamed to a disbelieving audience online, which all combine together for a lot to enjoy here. There are some drawbacks to be had with this one. One of the biggest issues holding this one back is the superficially obnoxious characters due solely to the specific setup featured here. Playing into the idea of the same train as before is already in bad taste, then to have the characters focus on trying to enhance their social media standings is even more by downplaying genuine emotional damage and distress. That people, supposedly being friends with each other are going through the issues they, to ignore this in favor of what they do here is incredibly shortsighted. Of course, there's also the whole issue of why anyone would want to partake in this setup to begin with considering the circumstances surrounding the whole incident that needs to be addressed, but otherwise, it's not so bad.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.