A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.
Practical Effects
The moving train set is genuinely impressive low-budget ingenuity.
Costume
Every character in disguise means the killer hides in plain sight.
Acting
Ben Johnson brings unexpected gravitas as the conductor.
Director
Roger Spottiswoode
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Jamie Lee Curtis's third horror film in two years, cementing her scream queen status while she actively tried to escape the typecasting.
The train setting was chosen specifically to ride the coattails of Murder on the Orient Express and Silver Streak, proving slashers would set themselves anywhere with confined spaces.
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