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Terror Train
Fox // R // September 7, 2004
List Price: $14.98 [Buy now and save at Amazon]
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Wait, so they're triplets? |
The killer's M.O. is to grab a victim's mask, pose as that person, and silently lull other passengers into a false sense of security through nods and hand gestures. A body count slowly -- very slowly -- starts to pile up. Every good slasher needs a list of suspects, and even though Terror Train isn't a good slasher, it takes a stab at mystery anyway. Everyone that isn't watching the movie suspects The Magician (David Copperfield), probably because he's mysterious and doesn't have a name. So, the conductor and Alana try to figure out who's behind the mayhem, and...yeah, it all culminates with the killer in yet another fright mask isolating Alana and chasing her around various claustrophobic settings. Hmmm...Jamie Lee Curtis, silent masked killer, isolation, claustrophobia... Wait, wait, I know this one...
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Audio: Terror Train features several different soundtracks, including the original mono, a stereo remix, and a Spanish dub. The stereo soundtrack is decent, although the DVD can't mask its age and monaural origins. The range is somewhat limited, and even though the movie is set on a large locomotive that's barreling around, it's not accompanied by a particularly hefty amount of bass. Dialogue remains intelligible throughout, but...y'know, it sounds like it was filmed a quarter-century ago. If you're bored, which is pretty much a given, switch to the Spanish dub periodically. I guess whoever was doing the re-recording wasn't as fond of disco-inflected pop, so different music was piped in, and the opening credits are read outloud. Other audio options include subtitles in English and Spanish as well as closed captions.
Supplements: The only extra is a pretty rough-looking full-frame trailer. Terror Train also includes a set of 16x9-enhanced static menus and sixteen chapter stops.
Conclusion: Rattling off a brief description of the movie makes it sound kinda interesting -- it's an early slasher flick starring Jamie Lee Curtis at the height of her reign as Scream Queen, with a bunch of frat boys and drunken co-eds systematically gutted on a fast-moving train by a killer that takes the guise of his victims. Too bad its glacial pace, overextended runtime, bland kill scenes, and overreliance on what would quickly become genre clichés don't live up to that forty word summary. Oh well; at least it's cheap. For slasher completists only.
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