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    Terror Train (1980)

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    During a beach bonfire on New Year’s Eve, college students Doc (Hart Bochner), Mitchy (Sandee Currie), Mo (Timothy Webber) and Alana (Jamie Lee Curtis) play a prank on dorky Kenny Hampson (Derek McKinnon) – putting him in bed with the cadaver of an old woman they stole from the university medical school – but things go too far and poor Kenny goes insane and ends up in an asylum.

    Fast forward three years and the students are now seniors and have rented a train to hold a New Year’s Eve costume party.

    But Kenny is on board and looking for revenge, and is exacting his payback in various costumes and disguises, including an alien lizard costume, the magician’s female assistant and (famously) a Groucho Marx mask.

    The late great Ben Johnson (as Carne the train conductor) steals the show and emerges as the hero at the end. Real-life magician David Copperfield appears in the film as . . .  a magician (natch).

    Basically, it’s a Canadian production of Halloween set on a train.

    Alana Maxwell
    Jamie Lee Curtis
    Carne
    Ben Johnson
    Doc Manley
    Hart Bochner
    Kenny Hampson
    Derek McKinnon
    Mitchy (Michelle)
    Sandee Currie
    Mo
    Timothy Webber
    Jackson
    Anthony Sherwood
    Ken the magician
    David Copperfield
    Ed
    Howard Busgang
    Charlie the brakeman
    Steve Michaels
    Class President
    Greg Swanson
    Merry
    Vanity (DD Winters)
    Pet
    Joy Boushel
    Engineer
    Victor Knight
    Shovels
    Don Lamoreux

    Director
    Roger Spottiswoode

    Video

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