NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR (1985)

[alandhopewell]

     Back in the day, this is what you got when you said, "Night Train"....



     For the uninitiated, it was a brown-bag wine of 19% alcohol content that'd definitely get you where you wanted to go; it helped fuel many a party, trip, or bad-flickfest.
Thus, the title of this film is appropriate....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWgwQSUpZH0

     You get the distinct impression that someone was suckin' on green-bottle joy-juice during filming.

     NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR is a mash-up of three separate films, two incomplete, vivisected and stitched together into a psychotic omnibus movie of three stories, held together by a framing device of a train, a conductor, God, Satan, and a group of musicians / dancers who look like the Eighties version of Kaptain Kool and the Kongs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFzxvdP--i8

     CTTOI, a wee drap o' Night Train might be helpful when watching this.
ENJOY!

[LilCerberus]

http://open.spotify.com/track/4OMreMBdFMvXg4nyh6KIAB

[Skull]

From what I understand the first movie was unfinished and the second movie is sort of lost (or unfinished) and the 3rd Cataclysm (1980) which I really like.  Night Train seemed to have parts in Cataclysm that I had not seen in the full movie, yet it would the movie better. I never understood the reason why the stop motion stuff was cut out in the movie.

[major jay]

FYI, it's showing this Saturday night on TCM at 2 AM.

[Allhallowsday]

And I was thinking Thunderbird...

[alandhopewell]

And I was thinking Thunderbird...

     Then there was this....

[Rev. Powell]

The second movie, GRETA, was completed and is included on the Blu-ray as a bonus. It's actually kind of fun; a lot more coherent than the 30 minute version they cut it down to, but still super-wacky.

And talking about this movie without including this amazing video should be against the rules:

http://youtu.be/VUHsLZ5t5w8

Terrifying!

(P.S. I drank Night Train in college and greatly preferred it to Thunderbird. It tasted more like wine than Thunderbird's synthetic apple juice taste. Wild Irish Rose was another winner).