Train (I) (2008)

In Europe, a group of American college athletes unknowingly board a train that will become one deadly ride.

Director:

Gideon Raff

Writer:

Gideon Raff

Stars:

Thora Birch, Gideon Emery, Kavan Reece

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Thora Birch	...	Alex
Gideon Emery	...	Willy
Kavan Reece	...	Sheldon
Derek Magyar	...	Todd
Gloria Votsis	...	Claire
Todd Jensen	...	Coach Harris
Vladimir Vladimirov	...	Vlad
Koyna Ruseva	...	Dr. Velislava
Valentin Ganev	...	Conductor Vasyl
Ivan Barnev	...	Gregor
Nikolay Mutafchiev	...	Vasily
Miroslav Emilov	...	Ishtav
Aleksandra Vasileva	...	Drunk Blonde
Lina Zlateva	...	Brunette
Matthew Tibbs	...	Backpacker

Storyline

In Europe, a group of American college athletes unknowingly board a train that will become one deadly ride.

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Plot Keywords:

train | peeping tom | vomit | brass knuckles | passport | 

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Taglines:

You're in For One Hell of a Ride

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong grisly bloody violence, disturbing images, sexual content and language

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [jp]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 May 2009 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Terror Train

Filming Locations:

New Boyana Film Studios, Sofia, Bulgaria

Company Credits

Production Co:

Millennium Films, Nu Image Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Originally conceived as a remake of Terror Train to be written by Ryan Eslinger. The script eventually morphed into its own story.

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Connections

Remake of Terror Train (1980)

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Soundtracks

"Black Scorpion"
Written by Dean Barrett and Judy Whittaker
Published by Freeplaymusic(BMI)
Courtesy of Freeplay Music

User Reviews

thoroughly unpleasant

I probably should have known this was going to be, or at least akin to being, "torture porn", or the gratuitous slicing and dicing of people without any of the suspense, but I didn't expect this low-rent movie starring Thora Birch to be just so unpleasant, in its style and mood and its delivery. It doesn't help that the cast mostly looks like the understudies of other actors (that one guy is a dead ringer for Denis Leary, another one for European Cameron Diaz) and none of them can act very well (Birch, of course, being a master thespian of under-acting if that's possible). But any moment that a suspenseful walking/creeping around should work it doesn't, and any moment that we're supposed to be icked or frightened by the next gashing-out of blood is just stupid in its excessiveness.

It also doesn't help at all that the logic is twisted; there's a train that kidnaps unwitting people into using their bodies on the black market, okay, I'll bite, maybe it's like Taken on a Train (ho-ho). Even then there's little thought put into it; they're organ-removers basically- a little like the people in Hostel only providing a "service" albeit extremely criminal and psychopathic and with some of the usual big galuts in tandem. But what about what's usually done with organ removing and transplanting like, I don't know, a CLEAN ROOM! It's one thing to be evil East-Euro organ removers, it's another thing to be incompetent while doing it.

Also, the ending is one of the lamest in modern cinematic memory, even if it's straight-to-video. There's little to recommend about it except for a few (unintentional) laughs early on before the Olympic team gets on the train and parties down at an overly-red-lit nightclub.