Terror Train
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| Directed by | Roger Spottiswoode |
| Produced by | Harold Greenberg |
| Written by | T.Y. Drake |
| Starring |
Ben Johnson Jamie Lee Curtis Hart Bochner |
| Music by | John Mills-Cockell |
| Cinematography | John Alcott |
| Edited by | Anne Henderson |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Release date
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October 3, 1980 |
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Running time
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97 minutes |
| Country | Canada United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4.2 million |
| Box office | $8,000,000 |
Terror Train is a 1980 Canadian-American slasher film directed by Roger Spottiswoode in his directorial debut and starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Ben Johnson. Set aboard a moving train holding a costume party, a group of attending fraternity students are murdered by a familiar masked killer targeting them from a prank gone wrong, and steals their costumes on the train after killing them to evade.
At a college pre-med student fraternity New Year's Eve party, a reluctant Alana Maxwell is coerced into participating in a prank: she lures the shy and awkward pledge Kenny Hampson into a darkened room on the promise of a sexual liaison. However some other students have placed a woman's corpse in the bed. Kenny is traumatized by the prank and is sent to a psychiatric hospital.
Three years later, the members of the same fraternities and sororities hold a New Year's costume party aboard a train. Class clown Ed is disguised as Groucho Marx. Prank ringleader Doc Manley is disguised as a monk. Jackson is disguised as an alien lizard. Doc's girlfriend, Alana's best friend Mitchy, is disguised as a witch. Alana's boyfriend Mo is disguised as a bird. Also along are Carne, the train conductor, and a magician hired to entertain the crowd.
As the train journeys into the icy wilderness, the students responsible for the prank are murdered one by one, with the killer assuming the mask and costume of each murder victim in turn. Carne discovers some bodies and sequesters the students in one car as the train begins its return journey. Alana recalls the prank and, remembering that Kenny loved magic, suspects the magician is the killer. However the magician has disappeared, and is eventually found impaled inside his sword box.
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