Slicker production values and some decent performances, but it's still pretty run of the mill slasher fare.

My favorite bit of trivia (from IMDB): "(Producer Grodnik) woke up and said to his wife, "What do you think about putting Halloween on a train? His wife answered, "That's terrible." He jotted down "Terrible Train" on a piece of paper on his nightstand." It's honestly not that bad - the claustrophobic cinematography works pretty well, actually - but it is pretty silly, esp. Copperfield's performance and the big reveal at the end.

Even when I was a kid I thought - man, what a fucking ponce Copperfield is.

Sweet second-grade slasher... on a train! It has Jamie Lee, Ben Johnson, booze, blood, babes and a gay magician. If not for the absence of Godzilla and power tools it could have been the greatest movie ever made.

Boy did the 80's suck, and Terror Train is proof of it!! The acting, the screen play, and even the friggen filming are among the worst in the horror genre.

one of my new favorite slasher movies. jamie lee curtis and hart bochner are better than average for slasher movie actors, the cinematography is legit gorgeous especially in the early shots of the train, it's creative and actually kinda scary. and there's a groucho marx costumed killer.

39.875

Pure eighties schlock. It's not particularly good and it's too long, but it's funny in a bad kind of way. Bonus points for David Copperfield's performance- the resemblance to Gob Bluth is uncanny.

Is it me, or does that face mask behind Jamie Lee Curtis llok like Gene Shalit?

Ho hum. Yet another slasher movie, elevated somewhat by John Alcott's great cinematography

Strange movie about a ugly vicious prank gone wrong...HHHMMM imagine that

A minor 80's slasher, featuring the Scream Queen. The train setting could have been used better, perhaps making the film more claustrophobic. But alas the film falls into predictability, the worst being the killer who is so obviously the magicians assistant that it is painful to watch how the filmmaker tried to make it surprising. Bad

Solid slasher starring a post-Halloween Jamie Lee Curtis and a young David Copperfield (?). A must for horror fans and slasher completists.

Okay Movie

Shocks and blood in the Carpenter tradition, adequately mounted.