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- 100San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoSan Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoThe bloodshed is somewhat less gory than in many slasher films -- with stress on the "somewhat." [26 Sep 2004]
- 65IGNIGNTerror Train doesn't really hold up, but it does offer a fun dose of low-brow slasher mayhem.
- 60Time OutTime OutStill, better than most of its kind.
- Better than most in the slice-and-dice genre, Terror Train has a couple of decent performances from Ben Johnson and Jamie Lee Curtis, great photography from John Alcott (Barry Lyndon; The Shining), and some atmospheric direction from Roger Spottiswoode (Under Fire).
- The intention here was to make a thriller, a suspense movie about some people trapped on a train, waiting for an unknown killer to strike. The problem is that they don't do very much else except wait.
- 40Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrThis 1979 teenage horror film has no redeeming style: it's a straight, pedestrian cop of Halloween, from the opening shock to the climactic battle against the psycho.
- 30The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe premise - a crazed killer abused years before returns to wreak vengeance on the young - is so familiar that the audience can predict (and does: loudly) every "shock." [15 Oct 1980]
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertTerror Train is a curious hybrid that doesn't seem to know just what it wants to be. It has, I guess, few artistic pretensions, and yet it's not a rock-bottom-budget, schlock exploitation film.