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A nightmare of terror travelling aboard the Horror Express!
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.
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Horror Express
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Christopher Lee Peter Cushing Telly Savalas Alberto de Mendoza Silvia Tortosa Julio Peña Ángel del Pozo Helga Liné Alice Reinheart José Jaspe George Rigaud Víctor Israel Faith Clift Juan Olaguivel José Marco José Canalejas Vicente Roca Hiroshi Kitatawa Barta Barri Peter Beckman Allen Russell Fernando Villena
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Alternative Titles
Panic in the Trans-Siberian Train, Экспресс ужаса, Das Grauen fährt 1. Klasse, Horror-Express - Das Grauen fährt 1. Klasse, Der Tod fährt 1. Klasse, Horror Express: The Enigma, Expresso do Horror, Horror-Expreß, Kauhun pikajuna, Поезд ужасов, Terreur dans le Shanghaï-Express, Dehşet Ekspresi, Pánico en el Transiberiano, O Expresso do Horror, רכבת אל תוך הלילה, Влакът на ужасите, Pociąg grozy, Expres hrůzy, 恐怖列车, 호러 익스프레스, ゾンビ特急地獄行き, Horror express, Експрес жаху, Dödsexpressen
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Spain
03 Dec 1973
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USAR
03 Jan 1974
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Germany16
20 Jun 1974
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21 Jun 1974
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Ireland18
28 May 1975
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16 Oct 2006
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France
28 May 1975
- TheatricalU
Germany
03 Jan 1974
- Theatrical16
Ireland
21 Jun 1974
- Theatrical18
Spain
30 Sep 1972
- Theatrical
UK
20 Jun 1974
- Theatrical
16 Oct 2006
- Physical15 DVD
USA
03 Dec 1973
- TheatricalR
Popular reviews
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Look, obviously when a movie starts out with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing on a Trans-Siberian train battling an otherworldly shapeshifter that eats brains with its eyes, eventually you're going to get around to Telly Savalas in a deep red smoking jacket beating the hell out of a Rasputinesque monk in a crowded dining car. Fortunately, the stylish execution makes up for the same-old same-old plot.
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THE THING FROM ANOTHER BOXCAR
It's unfortunate that such an awesome movie got relegated to having such a generic ass title. The Spanish one at least is “Panic on the Trans-Siberian”, but “Horror Express”? Sounds like a fuckin’ Halloween-themed amusement park ride—makes sense then why people forget it’s actually another adaptation of “Who Goes There?”, the novella that inspired The Thing. But, instead of Kurt Russell fighting the best practical effects of all time, here we get Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing fighting a shapeshifting Neanderthal that telekinetically absorbs brains with its glowing red eyes, resulting in trippy death scenes with rad fever dream energy. Then, instead of an isolated outpost in the arctic, we move the setting to… -
Hooptober 9: It’s in Space Now
God bless Terry Savalas. Dude shows up an hour in to make an already great movie even better!
Not enough horror films take place on trains, you know? It’s a perfect setting. Vaguely claustrophobic yet spacious, full of victims, and it’s isolated with possible freedom wizzing by outside.
So the setting’s perfect, how about the killer? It’s one for the books. See, you think you’re getting a killer caveman film only to have the rug pulled out from under you when it starts absorbing human memories through their eyes! That’s right, it’s actually some sort of ancient alien energy that only becomes smarter with every person it kills. It looks great too. The monster…
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Hooptober 9.0, pt.1- All Aboard!
2/6 Countries (Spain, UK)
1/8 Decades (1970s)
1/2 Christopher Lee Films1st Eugenio Martín
My fourth Hooptober begins with two of my role models having a hair-raising time aboard a Trans-Siberian train while battling an ancient alien circa 1908. Cushing and Lee always have such a wonderful screen presence, a kind of unflappable Englishness in the face of danger and an unfailingly courteous and charming manner to everyone, especially the women they encounter. You can't help but want to dress exceptionally well and greet everyone with a half bow after one of their outings, and this is no exception, with the duo playing rival scientists with a thorny backstory that they must overcome to deal…
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Nothing like a Friday night Cushing and Lee feature! They're both wonderful and very attractive, but something about Cushing just really does it for me. I could watch him all day.
And I love train set horror movies. My own personal amount of train experience is woefully limited, but I do feel like the action that takes place on all these train horror movies is very logistically improbable and that's ok because the idea is fun and it's a nice change from your usual settings.
Telly Savalas shows up and acts like Telly Savalas and there's a pretty cool monster. The women are mostly the dramatic fainting type and I think that's what holds this back from being more than…
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"Ah yes England, Queen Victoria, crumpets, and Shakespeare" -Irina,
- Horror Hunt #24: boxd.it/5wPL8
What is Peter Cushing's deal? Same with Christopher Lee... why are those two so awesome?
What a classy horror film. The missing link is found frozen in Manchuria, is placed on a train, it thaws out, then it kills because the missing link is a violent motherfucker... but with a twist and stuff. It's a very British affair with lots of deducing and conjecturing and tea. I quite enjoyed it. There are a number of interesting characters on this train and the plot has a trippy mystery vibe despite the fact that this is straight horror. I love the look of everything and found myself fully engaged during the non-monster parts. It's weird, it's interesting and I liked it.
Love that poster.
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Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee are bunking up together on the Trans-Siberian Express, with an ancient Himalayan missing link ape monster causing all manner of chaos. Eugenio Martín's film plays out like a Hammer feature but with a distinctly European flavour. The plot features a backbone of Victorian science versus religious belief; both presenting arguments for the existence of the central monster. Its a real hokey affair too, with the creature every bit the thawed out ape-man promised by the premise, along with plenty of eyeballs - red for the monster, white for the victims. The best thing about this film is the way it plays out in totally unpredictable ways. Horror Express serves as an excellent precurser to The…
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I really hope that whenever I die, someone can look into my eye fluid and see dinosaurs.
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What starts out as a standard, early seventies horror film turns into a classic in its genre half way through. By changing what it initially seemed set out to do, it really becomes an unexpected delight with a very clever script. It brushes with science fiction at points and touches upon some interesting, almost philosophical ideas. It is simply very well written.
The acting is fine and Lee and Cushing know what they're doing. Their quintessential Britishness is fantastic. The moment Savalas turns up, however, the films changes up yet another gear. He is simply magnificent.
The thing that struck me most though, was the fact that it at points is genuinely scary and convincingly graphic. Something I not often associate with films of this type.
Deservedly a horror classic!
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This early 70's horror/sci-fi trip finds Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing stuck on a train with an ancient-alien-ape racking up a serious body count. They've got to use their wits to decipher this complex nightmare as corpses keep popping up with whited-out eyes and erased brains. Psychic devastation from a hairy creature with red-laser eyes ensues!
This was pretty damn fun! Lee and Cushing alternating between dry humour and intense concern along with a cast of idiosyncratic characters all jumbled up in this borderline supernatural-slasher effort.
The creature is the main attraction though, and even when it shapeshifts to resemble another character later on (shhhhh!), it was just another layer to pull me into its campy cacophony of twisted sci-fi… -
There are many things to enjoy about Horror Express. Cushing and Lee work so well of each other (obviously) and I found their banter very endearing. I liked the colourful cast (well except maybe the monk, but I understood his function in the movie.) I loved everyone hating on the monk and choosing science, rational thought and fact based decision making over superstition. And last but not least, I loved how the miniature model work looked so convincing (that last scene though.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
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