Jamie Lee Curtis was once again cementing her status as the Scream Queen, after the successes of "Halloween", "The Fog" and "Prom Night", but this one unfortunately wasn't as successful as the previous ones and remains the least remembered. But that doesn't mean that this movie is bad. A Slasher movie set on a train is something different I suppose, which makes Terror Train a stylish and inventive and really makes the most of it's settings. And I also loved the fact that the killer uses different costumes for each murder, pure genius.

The only draw back on this movie is that most of the murders happen off-screen, but more than makes up for it in the performances like Derek MacKinnion who plays Kenny a very well rounded performance, Ben Johnston does well in his role as the train conducter and even real life magician David Copperfield plays his part well. Hart Bochner plays the coward Doc annoyed me and glad he got his just desserts and once again Jamie Lee Curtis is brilliant as the lead heroine and gives the best chase scene in this movie which is the main highlight of this movie in my books.

All in all "Terror Train" is an underrated gem and a highlight on Jamie Lee Curtis's glowing CV.

The college students Doc (Hart Bochner),Michelle "Mitchy" (Sandee Currie),Mo (Timothy Webber),Alana (Jamie Lee Curtis),Edward "Ed" (Howard Busgang) and Jackson (Anthony Sherwood) plot a prank for their college mate Kenny Hampson (Derek McKinnon); however the joke goes wrong and Kenny ends up in a mental institution. Years later, Doc and Mo decide to celebrate their graduation with a costume party and a magician (David Copperfield) aboard of a train. In the embarkation platform, Ed is murdered by a killer that wears his costume of Groucho Marx. Then he kills Jackson and wears his costume of The Swamp Thing. The conductor Carne (Ben Johnson) discovers his body, but who might be the masked killer?

"Terror Train" is an average slasher, with a claustrophobic story developed in a moving train. The identity of the killer is discovered but the he and his victims wear costumes and is difficult to identify who might be him. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "O Trem do Terror" ("The Terror Train")

College frat boys pull a prank on nerdy pledge Kenny Hampson. Alana Maxwell (Jamie Lee Curtis) is convinced to lure him into a darken room where he is shocked by a dismembered body from the medical school. The horror sends him to the insane asylum. Three years later, the same frat boys are holding their final party on a train to celebrate graduation which is attended by Alana. The class clown is wearing a Groucho Marx conductor mask. Someone kills him and steals his costume. David Copperfield shows up to perform magic.

I like the opening prank but it jumps almost immediately to three years later. The movie needs to show what happens in between those times. Without a longer movie space between the prank and the party, it makes the kids and Alana look callous. As for the train trip, there are way too many magicians for a frat party. It's fine to have a motif but magic and college kids don't mix. Instead of graduation, this should be a Halloween party. This is a time when Jamie Lee Curtis is consolidating herself as the original scream queen. It's fascinating for that fact alone but it's not much of a horror movie. Copperfield is also starting something but it's not going to be acting. He's bad at it.