Terror Train kept Jamie Lee Curtis in the spotlight as a 80's Scream Queen. I never quite realized how many horror movies she was in in such a short time. She was in 5 horror movie in 3 years, and 7 total in the early 80s. That's a scream queen right there.
In the beginning of Terror Train, Jamie Lee Curtis takes part in a ritual hazing type thing where a bunch of kids scare some weird scrawny dude. For some reason, the beginning already threw me off. Minute 5 and we already know who the killer is and why they're killing. It's stupid. Come on, have you heard of something called "suspense" ever? Movie?
The whole of the high school or college or whatever goes on a train trip, which is admittedly super cool. It's also near Halloween and everyone on the train is in costume. The train idea is a huge sell point for the flick and has to be what go this movie made. Anywho, they're all on a train and the killer is there too. As the killer kills people, he takes their costume, meaning that no one knows who the killer is and we as an audience aren't ever too sure what the killer will look like next.
The kills are average to boring. A couple boring stabs, a throat slit maybe. Blah. Not a highlight. So what then is the highlight? Hm. Was there one? I'll admit, I didn't particularly like this movie. It had nothing to keep one interested.
Terror Train is too slow first of all. We know what's happening and exactly when and why it's all happening. The train adds a tiny, tiny bit of interest because of mostly the cool power of the train, but that is it. It's barely used also. Instead, they focus on a shit ton of magic tricks by David Copperfield, randomly riding in the train entertaining the high school kids. Okay...?
It's not like it's fucking terrible, but it ain't great. I'll give it 1 star.
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