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  Review by Ira Brooker ★★★★ 9

  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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  Review by Kaijuman ★★★½ 4

  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 your 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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  Review by Ethan Lyon ★★★½ 13

  Hooptober 9.0, pt.1- All Aboard!

  2/6 Countries (Spain, UK)
  1/8 Decades (1970s)
  1/2 Christopher Lee Films

  1st 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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  Review by {Todd} ★★★

  "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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  Review by Tony the Terror 666 ★★★★ 3

  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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  Review by Bob McCully ★★★½ 12

  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…

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★ 2

  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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  Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★½

  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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  Review by Mr. DuLac ★★★★ 4

  He knows that a horse has four legs. He knows that a murderer has two arms. But still, the devil must be afraid of one honest Cossack.
  -Captain Kazan

  Even if you've never heard of a film, if it's a horror starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing it's a must watch as far as I'm concerned. Not that the pairing guarantees gold, but it does guarantee some enjoyment even if the movie ends up being a stinker. Thankfully not only is this one not a stinker, it actually only gets better with each passing minute as the story keeps evolving even though their on a train for it's entirety.

  The pairing of Lee and Cushing obviously gives the movie a…

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  Review by mosquitodragon ★★★★★ 5

  So, figuring I was scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to Arrow Video's stock of period horrors featuring my boys Petey and Christo (Cushing and Lee to you), I grabbed this off the shelf and plopped it on for a bit of mindless comfort cinema of a Hammer persuasion.

  It took all of ten minutes for me to emerge from my stunned torpor enough to begin to get an inkling of what a stupendous little gem I had unearthed here.

  This movie is fucking incredible. I had no idea what kind of Pandora's Box of a flick I was getting into with this one. There are so many crazy ideas contained in this script it took me…

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  Review by haley ★★★½ 3

  i'm ready to argue that we deserve more horror films that take place on trains

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  Review by Tears_in_Rain ★★★★ 15

  Scavenger of Human Sorrow (A Spooky Season Marathon)

  Spooky Season Ranked (2022)

  You mean there's a Hammeresque mashup of Murder on the Orient Express and The Thing, starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Telly Savalas, and I'm just getting around to watching it now? Well, fuck.

  Watched with Jozlyn