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Greg Collins O'Neill (written by)
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1989 (USA)
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Jason (David Naughton) moves into an abandoned train car where he resurrects the vicious ghost of his landlady's dead husband...
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| David Naughton | ... | Jason McCree | |
| Judie Aronson | ... | Kim | |
| Kevin McCarthy | ... | Vincent Tuttle | |
| Jeff Conaway | ... | Bud Sorenson | |
| Dani Minnick | ... | Joanne | |
| Ernestine Mercer | ... | Mrs. Erickson | |
| John Carl Buechler | ... | The Mister | |
| Gary Brockett | ... | Ghost Mister | |
| Steve Lundquist | ... | Dwight | |
| Bill Stevenson | ... | Kerry | |
| Michael Scott-Bicknell | ... | Chuck | |
| David Coburn | ... | Harris | |
| Nicole Hansen | ... | Clarice | |
| Sandra Margot | ... | 19-year-old Girl | |
| Robert Ruth | ... | Telephone Man |
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Mostly, "The Sleeping Car" is just another dead-guy-comes-back-to-life story. But it gets helped - if only minimally - by the fact that the cast members probably know that they're in a B-movie and don't take it too seriously to be stupid. David Naughton (happy birthday, David!) sort of plays off of his "American Werewolf in London" role as a man on a train who awakens the ghost of his landlady's husband. From there, most of the movie consists of...well, you know what sorts of things to expect in a horror flick. A slight disappointment for hardcore horror fans is the lesser amount of gore than we usually find in horror movies.
But anyway, it's fun in a pinch. Also starring Kevin McCarthy, who pretty much channels his roles in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and various Joe Dante movies.
All in all, we can add this movie to the pantheon of movies with "sleep" in the title: "Sleeping Beauty", "Sleeper", "Sleepaway Camp", "Brother of Sleep" and "Sleepers".