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Terror Train (1980)

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Reviews Counted:9

Fresh:3

Rotten:6

Average Rating:4.6/10

Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: On New Year's Eve the boys of Sigma Phi invite friends to a masquerade ball aboard a chartered train, where a knife-wielding psycho crashes the party.

Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner, David Copperfield

Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner, David Copperfield

Director: Roger Spottiswoode

Director: Roger Spottiswoode

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03/26/09
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Just a little more skillfully done than many of its contemporaries, and whatever esteem I have for it is largely nostalgic, but at least it tries to be different.

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08/13/07
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
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Better than most of its kind.

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06/24/06
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Sends you a chill down the spine that won't subside until those final few minutes...see it before the upcoming remake

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07/08/05
Clint Morris
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Emanuel Levy
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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Just another slasher picture.

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Ken Hanke
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08/30/04
John Corry
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05/06/04
Frank Swietek
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Holds the tension in a bone-chilling manner.

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01/09/04
Dennis Schwartz
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Liz Braun
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