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Oct 3, 1980 · Terror Train: Directed by Roger Spottiswoode. With Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner, David Copperfield. Three years after a prank went terribly awry, the six college students responsible are targeted by a masked killer at a New Year's Eve party aboard a moving train.
- (13K)
- Roger Spottiswoode
- R
- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Terror Train is a 1980 slasher film directed by Roger Spottiswoode in his directorial debut and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, and Hart Bochner. The film follows a group of pre-medical school students holding a New Year's Eve costume party on a moving train who are targeted by a killer who dons their costumes.
- $3.5 million
- Harold Greenberg
A fraternity masquerade party aboard a chartered train turns deadly when a psychotic classmate sets out for murderous revenge. Featuring the original scream queen, Jamie Lee Curtis, the film also stars David Copperfield, Ben Johnson and Hart Bochner.
- 96 min
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During a hazing, a fraternity of pre-med students has a particularly sinister prank in store for one their more timid pledges (Derek MacKinnon). With the help of a coed, Alana Maxwell (Jamie...
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- Roger Spottiswoode
- R
- Ben Johnson
It has three recognizable mid-level movie stars in it: Ben Johnson, veteran of John Ford Westerns, as a train conductor; David Copperfield, Broadway magician, as a magician, and, most notably, Jamie Lee Curtis as one of the endangered girls.
Dec 31, 2020 · There aren't that many horror movies set on New Year's Eve, but the clear standout choice is 1980's Terror Train, starring Jamie Lee Curtis. While Curtis went on to be a mainstream A-lister, it was her years as a scream queen, perhaps the best of all time, that first made her a household name.
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