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« on: December 30, 2004, 03:22:43 PM »

I got a couple of Best Buy gift cards for Christmas.  This is one of the movies I bought with one of the gift cards.  (Hey, the movie only cost $9.99 . . . give me some slack).

Actually, this is one of the better movies that came along during the glut of teen slasher flicks that followed (and copied) HALLOWEEN.  I'm not saying that it's a GOOD movie, but it's definitely not TERRIBLE like many of the others (like PROM NIGHT, HELL NIGHT, most of the FRIDAY THE 13TH movies, etc.)

What makes it better than most?

1.  It was directed by Roger Spottiswoode, who went on to bigger and better things (including 007).

2.  Ben Johnson (a very respectable character actor . . . and Oscar winner for THE LAST PICTURE SHOW) has a major role in it.

3.  It was photographed by a top line cinematographer (John Alcott).

Many slasher movie fans may not like it because there isn't much on-screen gore and violence . . . most of the time the camera cuts away just as someone is about to be killed.  I didn't mind so much (although, I would have welcomed a few eye-gougings or disembowelments).

Check it out, if you have a chance.



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« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2004, 03:32:35 PM »

Another interesting point about 'Terror Train', other than it starred Jamie Lee Curtis, is that magician David Copperfield had a major role in this movie playing a magician of all things. Unlike some movies with actors playing magicians, the magic tricks in this movie are really well done, and he does a good job acting.

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