Product Details

• Actors: Barbara Wyler, Jamie Scoggin, Stacey Lyons, Linda Maderas, Melanie Montilla
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Simitar Ent.
• VHS Release Date: September 8, 1998
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305103593
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #460,335 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Night Train to Terror is a horror anthology loosely tied together by interludes featuring God (Himself) and Satan (Lu Cifer) on a train haggling over the souls of characters in the stories. Along for the ride, for some reason, is what we're told is a "rock band," singing one rockin' little tune called, "Dance With Me," accompanied by some pretty hot breakdancing. The souls of the musicians are to be divied up also, but it's dramatically frustrating when this doesn't happen. The trio of stories presented make about as much sense as this, banking on absurd situations and splatter technique for their appeal, but coming off as unhumorously grisly and sadistic anyway. "The Case of Harry Billings" tells of a poor sod drugged up and hypnotized into luring unsuspecting victims to a hospital where their organs are forcibly harvested and sold to medical schools across the globe. Said harvesting takes place often without benefit of anaesthetic. Same goes for the viewer. "The Case of Gretta Connors" is a love story involving a death cult inventing ever more complex forms of Russian Roulette at which to cackle maniacally. And last, and certainly longest, is "The Case of Claire Hansen," pitting the devout Claire against the son of Satan, whose heart she must remove and place in a wooden box made from the actual Cross. While mostly tiresome and overlong, there are some amusing moments of the late-night variety, the kind you may mercifully not remember the next day. --Jim Gay

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everybody's got something to do....everybody but you!, July 2, 2004

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Spunk Monkey (The pit of despair) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Night Train to Terror (DVD)

This is, put simply, one of the greatest films of all time...if you like to watch movies while drunk and stoned! As stated elsewhere, the movie is actually three movies with a wrap around, so it moves at an incredible, surreal clip; lurching forward without any explanation or boring parts- decapitations, nudity, suicide cults, inexplicable behavior- all interweaven into a truly bizarre cinematic experience. The tie together, God and Satan on a train, is made sublime by the inclusion of, and I am not joking, 80's breakdancers getting down to one of the funniest songs that will penetrate your mind (hence the title of this review)! This is really, truly one of the great party movies and I recommend it to anyone who finds delirium in finding the strange, perverse, and Dadaish on the outer fringes of the movie watching universe. An underground cult classic.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What Do You Get When You Combine Three Awful Movies Into One? Night Train To Terror, That's What., September 20, 2008

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Robert I. Hedges - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Night Train to Terror (DVD)

"Night Train to Terror" is a wretched combination of (apparently) three horrendously bad movies which have been edited down to a singular completely incoherent plot, with links added featuring good versus evil on a model train scheduled by Satan to crash at dawn, all combined in the format of a wretched music video from the 1980s, complete with breakdancing.

The first storyline concerns a man who kills his wife by driving off a bridge, and who then becomes involved in a plot to remove organs (only from attractive women) and sell them to medical schools. Plot emphasis is on random gore (including the most unrealistic beheading ever), bad dreams, and lots of screaming, all tied together with no production values.

After an intermission from the debate club on the train where horrible dialogue is exchanged (sample: "You have no tears; you don't know how to cry."; "I can laugh and cry at the same time.") interspersed with more of the same horrendous pop song and stock footage of a steam locomotive, the film progresses to subplot two, "The Case of Gretta Connors," which starts at a carnival with Gretta selling popcorn. Needless to say Gretta is a struggling musician and actress who only lives for stardom and playing the piano. She is quickly seduced by the evil George Youngmeyer, who puts her in risque movies. The oldest fraternity brother in history, Glenn, sees one of her films and falls in love with her. He then tracks her down (today this is called stalking) and they fall in love. George is furious and vows revenge. He involves them in something called "The Death Club" where members try to die in creative ways. I will tell you that while this movie is generally only worth one star (if that), I gave it a bonus star for the most hilarious special effect since "Robot Monster," namely the claymation "Tanzanian Winged Beetle" which could not be made funnier if they tried. The electrocution computer is also ludicrous as it melts the face of its randomly selected club member: watch for the classic line "Excuse me while I smoke." What isn't clear is why Glenn and Gretta decided to participate in this club if they were so in love and had such a lust for life. Also watch for the endless pontification on the subject of a wrecking ball, and a special guest appearance by Mark Ridley as Prince Flubutu.

After yet more singing the same old song and even more breakdancing, the case of Claire Hansen delves into a confusing and sacrilegious subplot about good versus evil in Nazi Germany, which segues into an extended disco and claymation debacle of epic proportions. It's kind of like "The Omen" combined with "Can't Stop The Music." This story was the most pretentious and the most boring. Fortunately it's only a half hour until the train wreck, which features a terrible scale model which would embarrass the producers of the Godzilla series. Finally, after a bit more pompous pontification, we get to see yet more of the song ("Everybody's got something to do, everybody but you!"), and after another round of breakdancing the credits roll, and not a moment too soon.

Although I am a hardened veteran of numerous B-movies, I found this one trying in the extreme: it took me four attempts to make it all the way through this mess. It turns out that when you put three otherwise awful films together into a single cinematic work that the synergistic effect does not improve them: to the contrary, the net result is one of the most jaw-droppingly bad films in memory.

I do not recommend this movie for humans.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Late Night Horror Classic From 1984, July 27, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Night Train to Terror [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Released in '84, "Night Train To Terror" was an instant late night horror cult classic. It enjoyed a following in its day although it has gone on the wayside. But anyone interested in cult classics of horror will really find this rare find appealing. The movie is a series of vignettes, three major cases argued by God and the Devil as a group of punk rockers ride an evening train. Warning: This movie is very gory, violent and scary and rated R. Kids under 16 more or less should not watch this film. Not for the faint of heart.

God and the Devil battle over souls in a philosophical "Seventh Seal" sort of way. The first case is Harry Billings (John P. Law)a man caught up in the horrors of a hospital in which patients are unwillingly severed and their body parts encased in jars for donation. Gory and disgusting scenes are rampant as the rest of the movie. The second case is that of a young girl who dreams of fame and fortune. She is made into a porn star by a domineering boyfriend/director. She joins a Death Club which plays a twisted Russian Roulette resulting in the electrocution of a Jimmi Hendrix look-alike. That scene is veyr disturbing and not intended for younger viewers. Actually, it is very unnecessary but the director of this film was getting away with nudity, violence and gore because it was late night. The last case is that of Claire Hansen, a faithful God-fearing woman, married to an atheist scientist who has written a controversial book "God Is Dead". The segment opens with a nightmare sequence involving the Nazis in World War II days. The final confrontation between good and evil collide as Claire faces the Devil's son. The claymation here is used for the images of demons (including one female demon named Ishtar). This movie is very bad if you really think about it but then again many bad movies have enjoyed popularity. As far as horror film goes, this film is a rare cult classic that appears tame and even intellectual in a "talky" way compared to the slice and dice slasher films of today with less plot.