Terror Train (1980)

[bruce]

Terror Train is a 1980 Canadian horror film, directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, and David Copperfield.

Plot

At a college pre-med student fraternity New Year's Eve party, a reluctant Alana Maxwell is coerced into participating in a prank: she lures the shy and awkward pledge Kenny Hampson into a darkened room on the promise of a sexual liaison. However some other students have placed a woman's corpse in the bed. Kenny is traumatised by the prank and is sent to a psychiatric hospital. Three years later the members of the same fraternities and sororities hold a costume party aboard a train. As the train journeys into the icy wilderness the students responsible for the prank are murdered one by one, with the killer assuming the mask and costume of each murder victim in turn.

[FireStar]

Another classic from the early 80s, I can remember watching this alot on late night tv when I was younger. This is back when Jamie Lee Curtis was the ultimate scream queen and seemed to be in almost every slasher that was released. This is a film that works because it gives the ultimate sense of being trapped with the killer, I mean they are on a train and a killer is onboard killing people and there is absoultely no way to escape. There is only so far that the victims can go and only so many places to hide before the killer finds them, giving the movie a somewhat claustrophic feel to it especially as the bodies begin to be discovered.