Terror Train

Hey you!

Me?

Yeah, you! Would you like to board a train which celebrates New Year's Eve all through the night while it is reaching it's destination? It has plenty of cool costumes, food, mind-altering substances and loose women! You could say it is the very definition of Cool Train!

Oh, I don't really know....

It also has David Copperfield performing magic acts.

'' Oh cool! ''

Now that you're onboard, you should also know that there's also a disgruntled killer, who was a victim of a nasty prank couple of years ago, among the guests. Have fun!

Aw man....

And that's how the plot goes for this 1980 Slasher Flick directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson and the aforementioned David Copperfield.

A remake was in development, but it eventually evolved into the Hostel-esque Train (which retains the Terror Train title in Japan).


 * Axe Before Entering: And quite literally too.
 * An Axe to Grind
 * Cassandra Truth: When Doc finds Mo dead, nobody believes him due to his practical joker nature.
 * Closed Circle
 * Covers Always Lie: Out of the 5 costumes in the german poster above, the killer wears only three of them.
 * Deadly Prank: The Prank Date.
 * Death by Mocking
 * Disney Villain Death: The killer.
 * Everyone Is a Suspect
 * Fan Service
 * Final Girl: Alana.
 * Flashback Echo: How the killer is done in.
 * Go Mad from the Revelation: Opening scene's Prank Date does this to Kenny, though according to Alana he was mentally unstable even before that.
 * Holy Backlight: Used in the magician's card act.
 * Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
 * Jerkass: Doc.
 * Jerkass Victim: How many didn't feel regret when Doc was killed?
 * Masquerade Ball
 * New Year Has Come
 * Not Quite Dead
 * Off with His Head
 * Offscreen Teleportation: The magician does it at one point.
 * Once Is Not Enough
 * Peek-a-Boo Corpse
 * Red Herring:.
 * Revenge by Proxy
 * Shaming the Mob: When the agitated partiers think and are preparing for an attack, Carne talks them down.
 * Shovel Strike
 * Stage Magician: Did we mention David Copperfield? I'm sure we did.
 * Stuffed In A Trunk:.
 * Thriller on the Express
 * Thriller on the Express