Nadine Bhabha reveals vulnerable inner strength as the train employee caught in the mess. Robyn Alomar’s final girl is tough, smart and not willing to back down in the face of adversity. It’s an odd choice, but doesn’t ruin the film because at its core, this is still exploitation slasher fun. Rather than repeat the original, they add a twist that borrows heavily from a well-known slasher franchise.

The main place where writers Ian Carpenter and Aaron Martin take liberties is the end. He stays faithful to the original while taking liberties where there’s a bit of wiggle room.įor the most part, the costumes, magician and kills are intact. The greens highlight the murders while the red reveals the impending doom, all caught within the tight train corridors. Visually, Gagnon captures the claustrophobia of being on a train, utilizing greens and reds reminiscent of Argento’s distinct visual aesthetic. The main difference is a twist at the end that borrows heavily from another well-known slasher franchise. Costumes exchange and body counts rise as both guests and train employees realize someone is out to get them. There’s a mysterious magician, played by Tom Rozon in the finest Gary Numan impersonation ever, and an angry killer bent on revenge for the misdeeds of said fraternity. The premise is exactly the same: a well-to-do fraternity holds a Halloween bash on a privately chartered train only to have their numbers picked off one-by-one. Forty-two years later, this classic oddity gets a modern yet mostly faithful retelling courtesy director Philippe Gagnon. Terror Train, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, threw Halloween, Friday the 13 th, Animal House, Runaway Train and stage magic into a body bag, shook it up and dumped out a glorious Frankenstein monstrosity featuring Jamie Lee Curtis and David Copperfield. In 1980, Canada delivered one of the most mind boggling slasher films of all time.

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