Very best movie i ever watch

Simply Perfect

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Jamie Lee Curtis stars as one of many graduating college students who board a train to celebrate, but a killer with a grudge(for a cruel prank used against him four years earlier) disrupts the festivities, as he begins murdering the passengers, and donning their costumes(part of the party) in order to fool them. Magician David Copperfield plays a magician(naturally!) and veteran actor Ben Johnson plays the no-nonsense train conductor, determined to get the killer.Film builds some atmosphere in the snowy wastes outside the train(it is wintertime) and Ben Johnson is appealing,(most of the characters are not) but is otherwise dreary and predictable, and sometimes defies logic(killer seems to be a real magician!) Good ending cannot save it.

From the late 1970's to the early 1980's Jamie Lee Curtis was the most popular horror genre heroine to ever hit theaters. With her unique yell and brave actions, audiences couldn't get enough of the legendary "Scream Queen". Apparently, Terror Train (1980) is the product of a producer named Daniel Grodnik after having a dream of John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) taking place on a train and the result is quite obvious too. And although it is a unique idea, the end result is less entertaining than one would think. The flaw, like many other films is located in the writing department.The character arcs are the same like many slasher films. Some time in the past, a less popular kid among others is humiliated or neglected in some fashion and ends up losing his mind and starts to kill people. And it just so happens Jamie Lee Curtis is right in the middle of it. But here's where things are different if one wants to compare it to Halloween (1978). First, the villain here has a clichéd back-story. John Carpenter didn't want Michael Myers to have a back-story - making him unrelateable to the audience. Here, the audience can relate, but the explanation used for his spontaneous killing spree is way overused.Plus it doesn't help that it seems like there were too many characters to name in this movie. Of course, they are just fodder for the killer, but half of them aren't given any depth to begin with. For example, before the train gets underway, the conductor has a conversation with a lady who seems to be the stationmaster. They seem to have some kind of relationship but it's never looked at again. What's the point of bringing it up then? I did like the finale to the film because it did have a surprising climax but then right after that, it cuts directly to the ending credits. None of the loose ends are tied up, almost like everyone was hunky dory and the writer T.Y. Drake decided he didn't need to write anymore. It was just too abrupt.For direction, I can't say Roger Spottiswoode did a bad job since this was his first debut at a theatrical film, but I also can't say he did a great job. It was just fair - nothing out of the ordinary. The actors who were on screen the most did a fair job as well. The best was obviously Jamie Lee Curtis and second best was David Copperfield (a magician) playing a magician. And if it wasn't Curtis kicking and screaming, it would be Copperfield showing off all his neat tricks. As for the villain played by Derek McKinnon, he wasn't bad either and he definitely didn't look straight in the head, which helped make his character look just as weird.Weird is actually the way I will describe the killer. Michael Myers is creepy but this guy is just weird. Here's why: he is injured so many ways in this picture just like Michael Myers would be in Halloween (1978), yet they are too different characters. Myers is a hulking 6-foot giant. The killer in this movie looks about 5 foot 5 inches and isn't bulky. He's a thin guy. So tell me how several injuries can keep this guy going? Plus it's also more acceptable for Myers because no one knows if he was human or not. But the killer here is, so why is he practically unkillable? The writing Mr. Drake, the writing!The music provided John Mills-cockell wasn't great either. I mean, it had all the elements to sound like it belonged to a horror film but it never felt scary. There were no tunes that gave me goosebumps or made me cringe. So how can I say it was effective if it didn't affect me? Sorry, no credit here either. Good thing he hasn't scored many other films. It's not to say this movie wasn't watchable though. If you like slasher films, take a look see because you may end up liking it, but if you want a villain that'll make you quiver even after the film has ended, I can't guarantee that this picture will do that.Jamie Lee Curtis and real life magician David Copperfield are the best characters and the plot is an obvious mix of ideas but it's still unique. But what makes it average is the weird villain and mediocre writing.

Jamie Lee Curtis electrifies the opening scene of Terror Train with her beaming, toothy smile. She was a beautiful young actress. Sadly, because of her trite label as the "Scream Queen," I believe she never reached her full potential. She was terrific in A Fish Called Wanda, True Lies, and even Halloween, but she could've really been a talent. However, she settled for something that may not be as prestigious, but is just as remembered as an Academy Award: being the face of a genre that always draws fans. She's very good in Terror Train; although it feels like a very similar role to those she portrayed in Halloween and Prom Night, there's something stronger about the character that makes Curtis work standout more.There are some stereotypical college partying scenes and generic characters, but Terror Train is very entertaining. With movies such as this, you can't judge them on a regular film rating scale that you would judge film such as The Godfather, Taxi Driver, or Citizen Kane with. Instead you have to look at what's in front of you. Terror Train isn't a film with ambitious goals to meet, it's meant to purely entertain its audience and it does an acceptable job at that. It's a decent of the genre and for what it sets out to be. The exposition of horror films in the 1980s was dreadful, all falling to the same fate. They barely involve the viewer in the characters or the story, they keep them afar from the action. Terror Train has traces of that in explaining the characters, besides the character of Jamie Lee Curtis and the train conductor. All the other indistinguishable characters are expressed to have no moral values. Other problems Terror Train runs into is the convenient plot devices working in the plot's favor (the train used take has no radio...hmm?). Sometimes the screenplay has the characters do things just to say they did them without, but the plot wasn't advanced by said action. The choreography of the final chase scene was so sloppy; it was probably put together a few minutes before shooting.Setting can sometimes make or break a horror film, and I love the setting in Terror Train! It's ominous, spooky, and gives a distinctive quality to the horror flick. Hitchcock used trains a lot in his films, the setting serves as an homage to the legend in a way. The different color of lights are used to create mood and it's mostly effective. The villain works in Terror Train very well. It's a different take on the antagonist in a horror film, the mask at the beginning was my favorite face of the killer. Terror Train holds the anticipation of the killings, but its a film that rejects the graphic violent scenes. I'm not sure if it adds to retracts the film's overall quality, but it's certainly noticed with each death. Is Terror Train bursting with originality? No. Does it use clichés of the 1980s horror films? Yes. It's not an expertly made film, but I did enjoy the time I spent watching it. It's more entertaining than Prom Night, but lacks Halloween's brilliance and insight. Rating: 5/10Grade: C+

A college fraternity prank goes bad and student ends up in the mental ward.Four years later, it's graduation time, and the members of the fraternity decide to have a costume party aboard a train trip to celebrate their graduation.Unknowingly to them, a killer has slipped aboard, whacking them off one by one, disguised in the costumes of the victims....heres the thing about slasher movies from the eighties, why is it that all the awful ones are never remade? Prom Night isn't very good, but it's Friday the 13th compared to this poor excuse of a movie.What ruins the whole movie is th beginning, as it gives the whole surprise of who the killer is and why they are doing it. Other films do have an opening scene like this, but usually the killer is someone looking on or observing, no the Keneth Williams lookalike in his pants.Th setting on a train, has a very good claustrophobic feel, but the potential is wasted as they do not explore the whole train.Kills are a little naff and mundane, Curtis looks fed up with the whole genre and it all ends abruptly and very lame.One of the worse eighties slashers i have seen.