Monday, December 4, 2023

'Night Train to Terror' (1985) - Jay Schlossberg-Cohen,John Carr, Phillip Marshak, Tom McGowan, Gregg C. Tallas.

In the delightfully deviant 'Dr. Terror's House of Horrors' knock off, 'Night Train to Terror' (1985) svelte, whitely-attired God, (Ferdy 'Frightmare' Mayne) and malefic mobster-Devil (Tony 'Foxy Brown' Giorgio) blithely consider the heaven or hell fates of the myriad, morally challenged characters so gleefully tormented in this cheapnis terror trilogy. Derivative, and lacking style, 'Night Train to Terror' is revivified with a splattery plenitude of schlocky, B-Movie miscellany! Enjoyably wooden cheesecake 'actor', John Philip Law stars in the grisly instalment wherein he is chemically indoctrinated to perform compellingly lurid acts of sadism, kidnapping and gruesome bodily dismemberment! Set within the sordid environs of a malign clinic which does a goring trade in organ trafficking, much of the entertainment is engendered by, Richard Moll's heroically unhinged, asylum stalking, swivel-eyed, girl-mauling reprobate, Otto! 

The other more notably nutball, schlock-slathered segment is a prĂ©cis version of cult 80s occult freak-out 'Cataclysm', now colourfully enlivened with the additionally macabre amendments of rudimentary stop-motion demons! As the rickety, doom-laden death train lumbers inexorably towards its diabolical terminus, viewers must endure some insufferably spunky new wave rockage, 'performed' by a perfidiously perky, deliriously day-glow troupe of hyperactively finger poppin', boorishly body-lockin' uber-80s teens! Cheapnis loving, Fromage digging fans of 'Deadtime Stories' and equally Schlock-tastic 'Amok Train' are advised to book their tickets early for the luridly locomotive anthology 'Night Train to Terror', as they wouldn't want to miss this 'expressly' mirthsome trip into macabre B-Movie metaphysics! 

'These three terrifically torrid, transcendentally tweaked, train-bound terror tales are sure to send horror anthology freaks right off the rails!’- Weirdlingwolf.

'Horror films on trains rock my ass, dude!'  Milquetoast Buggaridge. - 'The Purloined Pudendum'.

 









 

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