Last Stop on the Night Train
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| Directed by | Aldo Lado |
| Produced by | Pino Buricchi Paulo Infascelli |
| Written by | Roberto Infascelli Renato Izzo Aldo Lado Ettore Sanzò |
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Flavio Bucci Macha Meril Marina Berti Irene Miracle Gianfranco De Grassi Laura D'Angelo |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography | Gabor Pogany |
| Edited by | Alberto Galliti |
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90 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Last Stop on the Night Train (Italian: L'ultimo treno della notte, released in the English-speaking countries as Night Train Murders, The New House on The Left, Second House on The Left, Don't Ride on Late Night Trains,Late Night Trains, Last House Part II and Xmas Massacre) is a 1975 Italian revenge horror film directed Aldo Lado and starring Flavio Bucci, Macha Meril and Irene Miracle.
Based on the plots of Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring (1960) and Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left (1972), the film follows two girls riding a train through Germany on Christmas Eve, who are brutalized by three criminals who eventually end up lodging in their parents' home.
It gained notoriety when it was banned in the UK as a video nasty in the 1980s.
Two young girls, Margaret and Lisa, are set to take the overnight train from Munich in Germany to stay with Lisa's parents in Italy for Christmas. On boarding they find the train is full and are forced to sit in the corridor. Meanwhile, two petty criminals, Blackie and Curly, also board the train as it is leaving Munich to escape from a pursuing policeman. The two thugs come across Margaret and Lisa who help them hide from the ticket collector. Blackie then encounters an upper-class blonde older woman who he makes to molest in the toilets only for her to aggressively seduce him. As Curly gets into a fight, the girls become increasingly wary of the two thugs' behaviour and make their way further down the train to escape them.
Arriving in Innsbruck in Austria, the train is stopped and searched following a tip-off that there was a bomb on board. The girls decide to try and call Lisa's parents to tell them of the delay but can't get through. Meanwhile, in Italy her parents are preparing for Christmas and hosting a dinner party for their friends where Lisa's father, a doctor, decries the growing violence in society. Back in Innsbruck the girls board a different train which will take them directly through to their destination. On boarding the new train however they find it is old, run down and virtually empty. Finding a compartment in the last carriage, they settle down for their trip, happy to have seats at last, and begin to eat a packed lunch by candlelight.
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