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Terror Train (Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray/DVD Combo] (1980)

Jamie Lee Curtis , Ben Johnson , Roger Spottiswoode  |  R |  Blu-ray
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (98 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner
  • Directors: Roger Spottiswoode
  • Format: Anamorphic, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Shout! Factory
  • DVD Release Date: October 16, 2012
  • Run Time: 97 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (98 customer reviews)
  • Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
  • ASIN: B008HUSFXE
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,262 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Special Features

• Interview With Production Executive Don Carmody, Producer Daniel Grodnik, Production Designer Glenn Bydwell And Composer John Mills-Cockell

• Theatrical Trailer

• TV Spot

• Still Gallery


Editorial Reviews

Take an excursion into terror with Jamie Lee Curtis in this classic shocker from director Roger Spottiswoode ( Tomorrow Never Dies).

It’s New Year s Eve, and a group of college coeds have planned a masquerade bash aboard a chartered train. What they didn’t plan on was that a knife-wielding psycho would crash the party and begin slaughtering the guests one by one! Who is this brutal costumed killer? Could it be the mysterious magician (David Copperfield) with a talent for swordplay . . . a former frat pledge with an axe to grind . . . or any number of other guests, both invited and uninvited?

Also starring Academy Award-Winner Ben Johnson (1971, Supporting Actor, The Last Picture Show), Hart Bochner (Die Hard) and D.D. Winters (aka Vanity, 52 Pick-Up). Features new commentary, exclusive interviews with the creative team behind the film, trailers and more!

Customer Reviews

This wasnt a 'so bad its good movie', this was a BAD movie. Amy Lynn  |  15 reviewers made a similar statement
On the train people start to get killed. Anders Nissen  |  6 reviewers made a similar statement
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50 of 63 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Better Than It Had To Be November 3, 2002
Format:VHS Tape|Amazon Verified Purchase
Lets just start off with a blanket statement that is unequivocal; I typically DESPISE "slasher" films. Oh, I worship every frame of Halloween (1978, which is classic cinema period) and had fun seeing Friday the 13th (1980) for the first time and going BOO! But I don't go to see "dead teenager" movies, don't rent them, and don't care. I didn't even like Red Dragon with Ralph Fiennes as a very worthy screen monster; I don't want to get to know mad killers, I want to see them smacked over the head with a coal shovel and done away with.

I first saw Terror Train quite by chance -- sleepover party at a friends in 1981 at the age of 14 where a bottle got passed around. Everyone else zonked out; I snuck upstairs to watch HBO on his parent's big screen TV set, and what did they happen to show, but Terror Train.

I had never seen a movie like it before. We had whispered to each other in the hallways of our middle school about Jason Vorhees and his mad mother, but I had never seen a film where some maniac runs around with an ax chasing comely college girls before. It was something new and sensational, and as usual my memory of the film proved to be more lurid than what actually turned up in my mailbox after buying the now out of print film from an Amazon.com reseller.

Terror Train follows the proven formula of building up a descent into madness and violence: A young fraternity pledge is subjected to a horrifying initiation stunt and goes bonkers. Cut to three years later and his now graduating pre-med classmates are staging an elaborate New Year's Eve costume party on a chartered excursion train, The completely psychotic former pledge gets on board via an elaborate ruse to murder his way through the principal cast members who set him up.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Party Pooper... October 10, 2004
Format:DVD
Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween, Halloween 2, The Fog) plays a college gal who is tricked into playing a sick joke (involving a cadaver) on a freshman frat pledge. Three years later, all is forgotten, as the fraternity brothers and their girlfriends hop aboard a rented steam train for a big New Year's Eve costume bash. Little do they know, someone has killed one of their pals and taken his place! So, one by one, he fools his victims into getting close enough to kill. Then, he puts on their costume and assumes their identity (It's a neat trick, and is similar in effect to the scene in Halloween where P.J. Soles mistakes Michael for her boyfriend)! Jamie Lee is convincing enough to make up for some of the shabby acting around her. Ben Johnson (Sugarland Express) is solid as the concerned conductor. David Copperfield is only mildly annoying as the magician (what else?). TERROR TRAIN chugs along at an enjoyable pace, never stopping long enough to become tedious. I recommend it to all Jamie Lee Curtis fanatics out there (like me). Well worth owning...
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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Terror Train July 3, 2004
Format:DVD
Terror Train in a classic horror movie. It had many scares. The plot was rather simple. A group of college teens play a prank that involves a dead body on a fellow classmate. key member of the prank was Alana who had no idea that there was a dead body. Neither did Mitchy (Sandee Currie) but Doc (Hart Bochner) Did. Then 3 years later the class is having a New Years Eve party on a train. But no one know that a killer hopped on the train. He starts killing random members of the prank and some had no part in it. He stabs One and steals there costume (Its a Costume party) taking his identity. He stalks Mitchy but gets stopped by A drunk friend of hers. Who he slams the head of in a glass mirror. Then he locks the door of the bathroom he commited the murder in. But the Conducter (Ben Johnson) gets it open. He sees the body and tells others. But when they get back the dead body just appears drunk. Little do they know its the killer. Mitchy takes who she thinks is her friend to a small bunk on the train. But he slits her throat.

Doc is with Alana's boyfriend when he falls dead. He takes the body out of the magician room. No one cares about Docs screams because is a real prankster. Alana's boyfriend dies. Then Alana finds Mitchy. The train is halted and a search is taken place in it. Doc stays on with Alana. She leaves and Doc is beheaded. Alana is taken to her own room to stay. A man stands guard at the door but is killed. Then the killer gets in and starts one of the scariest horror movie chase scenes ina horror film. She is chased through halls, To Conducter Box. She is stuck there as the killer breaks the lights. She stabs him through the wire with a letter holder. She goes to edge of train. Where she pushes him off the train. (or so she thinks)....

As You can tell this one scary movie. Jamie Lee Curtis does great and her acting out shines everybody here. Hart Bochner plays the (...)great here. Sandee Currie was killed to soon. She did great though. she would soon return to the genre in Curtains where she is credited as Sandra Warren. And Ben Johnson plays the conductor. What a great role. He did Great!!!!! Over all Terror Train is prolly the best horror film of the 80s. Its 5 out of 5 stars. 10/10 GREAT MOVIE Read more ›

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
It can be a challenge to review Blu-ray releases on Amazon. Theater reviews, VHS reviews, DVD reviews, digital copies - they often all end up under the same collection of feedback. I tend to rate the films themselves with the initial star rating, and cover the specifics of the medium I am reviewing in the body of the review. So, considered alongside the other films of the slasher genre, Terror Train is easily 4 star film, in my opinion. If you appreciate 1980s horror and understand the mechanics of film making at the time, this is easily one of the better entries of the period. The Blu-ray from Shout! Factory, is, however, a bit disappointing when considered alongside some of their other recent releases. I would probably give the disc three stars. It is worth buying, but if you are trying to decide between this movie and Shout! Factory's recent releases of The Funhouse, Halloween II or Halloween III, Humanoids from the Deep or Piranha, I would place this title at the back of the pack in terms of overall Blu-ray quality considering all factors. It's a good transfer, but not among their best. . .about three stars out of five.

This transfer features a 5.1 HD surround track. Unfortunately, the track is very front-heavy, with little real surround. A few early scenes have some nice ambient low frequency sound of the train in the background. . .but it isn't consistent. Some scenes have better audio than others. The first half of David Copperfield's on-train magic show has both decent audio and video. This leads to my next point: the video, sadly, is also inconsistent. There is a fair amount of damage to the print that has not been cleaned up. Scratches, blotches, hairs, etc., pass through the image throughout the film. They are heaviest during the first half.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars B Movie at its Worst
My guess is the stars (Jamie Lee Curtis, David Copperfield) wish they'd never agreed to be in it -- though it does provide a look at them early in their careers.
Published 3 days ago by John
5.0 out of 5 stars Must see
More of a thriller than a true horror movie. The plot was good, but the ending was sort of perdictible but it a way not really (if that makes any sense).
Published 7 days ago by Kraig P.
5.0 out of 5 stars Brings me back
Watching this movie again brought me back to a time when horror movies where fun to watch. I had a good time revisiting it, despite one really cheesy special effect that stands out... Read more
Published 2 months ago by mike kantor
4.0 out of 5 stars Great for Any Fan of 80's Horror
I've wanted to own this film for some time and when I found out about the collector's edition blu ray release, I had to buy it. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Nexus6Andy
4.0 out of 5 stars Death Ride of Madness!
This movie is suspenseful not because you don't know who the killer is, but because you don't know what the person looks like. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mule04
5.0 out of 5 stars Got for son!
Son liked this old movie that was re-done for Blu-ray. He liked it and it arrived safely and promply. Thanks.
Published 4 months ago by Grandma Moses
4.0 out of 5 stars Gotta love cheesy 80's horror
If you're a fan of the 80's style of horror, with all its cheesy qualities, then you'll get a kick out of this film. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Michael J. Iggena
4.0 out of 5 stars Quirky Horror Classic
Another of the films earning Jamie Lee Curtis the moniker of "scream queen". I know she hates her horror films, but Jamie, side note without them where would you have been... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Endora Aphrattos
3.0 out of 5 stars Behold! The Fake Magic Tricks of the Great David Copperfield.
Viewed: 12/12
Rate: 6

12/12: Jamie Lee Curtis, the indisputable queen of horror films, stars in Terror Train and lives up to the performance once again. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Austin Somlo
4.0 out of 5 stars Revision 2
I Reviewed This Items When First Received Them Don't Know What Happend To It
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