Terror train

Titolo originale: Terror Train
Regia: Roger Spottiswoode |
Anno: 1980
Origine: Canada |
Generi: Horror Thriller
Tag: mask | college | surprise | stalker | revenge | murder | train | killer | psycho |
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis | Ben Johnson | Hart Bochner | David Copperfield | Derek MacKinnon | Sandee Currie | Timothy Webber | Anthony Sherwood | Howard Busgang | Steve Michaels | Greg Swanson | Vanity | Joy Boushel | Victor Knight | Donald Lamoreux | Charles Biddle Sr. | Elizabeth Cholette | Thom Haverstock | Peter Feingold | Richard Weinstein | John Busby | Roland Nincheri | Andrea Kenyon |

Uno scherzo di pessimo gusto tra studenti finisce male ed uno di loro viene ricoverato in un istituto d'igiene mentale. Quattro anni dopo, i ragazzi decidono di feteggiare il diploma con una festa in maschera a bordo di un treno, ma qualcuno inizia ad ucciderli uno ad uno indossando di volta in volta i costumi delle vittime

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The temperature got so cold one evening that a filming camera got completely frozen out on that nigh [...] D
This horror movie's location exteriors were filmed in the Canadian province of Quebec which had icy [...] D
During a 2010 interview, actor Derek McKinnon said he got this role by mistake. He wasn't even audit [...] D
Most posters show the killer in the Groucho Marx costume. In the film proper, this costume is only u [...] D
The Magician, aka Ken the Magician, was played by David Copperfield, an actual real-life magician. D
Debut feature film as a director for Roger Spottiswoode. D
Names on two of the train carriages were "Rascoe's Folly" and "Wickman's Wake." D
The opening prologue of the college bonfire was the very last scene of the movie to be filmed. It wa [...] D
One of a batch of suspense / horror movies made during the late 1970s and early 1980s starring Jamie [...] D
Snow was an integral story element for some of the movie's location exterior shooting. Movie News ma [...] D
The name of the classic Hollywood actor-comedian and movie-star whose face was represented on one of [...] D
By the time this picture was ready to be launched, actress Jamie Lee Curtis had already earned the t [...] D
Paul Lynch was approached to direct this film, but declined. D
Jamie Lee Curtis shot this film back to back with the similarly themed slasher film Non entrate in q [...] D
Magician David Copperfield got very irritated during production because he had so much trouble sayin [...] D
Original publicity for this picture reported that lead actress Jamie Lee Curtis was twenty-one years [...] D
The production shoot for this movie was scheduled at twenty-five days. D
Derek McKinnon, who played the killer Kenny, later became embroiled with an actual murderer. He was [...] D
There was friction between director Roger Spottiswoode and actor Derek McKinnon during the shoot, wh [...] D
Actor Derek McKinnon is seen in drag in this movie. D
The train used in the film, Canadian Pacific Railway No. 1293, was still an operational locomotive a [...] D
Screenwriter T.Y. Drake once said of this film: "We set out to make a ghoulishly scary thriller." D
The movie starred two second-generation film actors. Hart Bochner was the son of Lloyd Bochner whils [...] D
The train was rocked back and forth on a rig inside a warehouse in order to simulate train locomotio [...] D
Second of two films that actor Ben Johnson made with director Roger Spottiswoode. The first was Sam [...] D
Producers Sandy Howard and Harold Greenberg's other 1980 picture La nave fantasma (1980) was also a [...] D
Director Roger Spottiswoode had been a film editor on numerous films prior to this, including three [...] D
All or at least most of the filming of the train scenes had to be scheduled for night shooting. This [...] D
The production got around half a day behind in its shooting schedule and frugal producer Sandy Howar [...] D
The first four of the five weeks shooting took place aboard the locomotive inside a warehouse in Mon [...] D
The movie was filmed aboard actual train cars that were converted for the production to allow space [...] D
The picture was shot during November and December 1979. D
Actor Ben Johnson once said of this movie in which he co-starred: "I hadn't even read the script for [...] D
Body count: 7 on-camera (confirmed); 3 off-camera (unconfirmed); 1 missing (presumed dead); none of [...] D
Reportedly, veteran actor Ben Johnson asked director Roger Spottiswoode to give his character Carne [...] D
This was David Copperfield's only acting role in film or television. However, Copperfield has played [...] D
The make and model of the locomotive was a June 1948 built Canadian Locomotive Company excursion tra [...] D
The idea for Terror Train (1980) came from a dream that Daniel Grodnik had. One weekend night after [...] D
Actor Derek McKinnon said during a 2010 interview that the writer originally wanted him to kiss acto [...] D
The name of the rock band was "Crime." D
Now Playing Podcast reviewed Terror Train. This film received three "not recommends". D
Steam train smoke was simulated by burning a combination of charcoal and church incense. D
The film was notable for a particular novelty story element gimmick whereby the villain puts on the [...] D
The killer was played by Derek McKinnon, a Canadian-Nova Scotia stage actor who appears in eleven sc [...] D
According to Wikipedia, "Cinematographer John Alcott devised a unique method of lighting Terror Trai [...] D
Actor Derek McKinnon said that his favorite scene was killing actor Hart Bochner's character Doc, be [...] D
Both Jamie Lee Curtis and Vanity (who was going by the name D.D. Winters at the time) would later be [...] D
The image of the Groucho Marx masked identity in Terror Train (1980) bore a somewhat burlesque and d [...] D
The picture was part of a Hollywood cycle of slasher movies made during the late 1970s and early 198 [...] D
The observation type passenger car used in the film called the "Denehotso" is being restored and is [...] D
Magician David Copperfield once said of this movie that he appeared in: "Film is a magnifying glass [...] D
This film is included on movie critic Roger Ebert's "Most Hated" list. D
The train's engine number of the locomotive was No. #1881. The engine number was was renumbered for [...] D
During the final fight scene when Jamie Lee Curtis was being attacked by a stuntman standing in for [...] D
Sandee Currie's debut. D
The film belongs to the category "Canuxploitation" (Canadian low budget films). D
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis once said of her character in this film: "There are certain things a heroin [...] D
The film's German title is "Monster im Nacht-Express", which translates to "Monster on the Night Exp [...] D