YouTube reviews:
Trailer:
“The teen slasher films released between September 1980 and March 1981 failed to emulate the financial achievements of their predecessors. Just like Sandy Howard predicted, Terror Train managed to ‘just about to slip in’ when it generated Fox an inglorious $3.5m in rentals despite receiving a similar saturation release and generous marketing budget to those which Paramount had given Friday the 13th.” Richard Nowell, Blood Money: A History of the First Teen Slash Film Cycle, Continuum, 2011
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Main cast and characters:
Ben Johnson … Carne
Jamie Lee Curtis … Alana
Hart Bochner … Doc
David Copperfield … The Magician
Derek McKinnon … Kenny Hampson
Sandee Currie … Mitchy
Timothy Webber … Mo
Anthony Sherwood … Jackson
Howard Busgang … Ed
Steve Michaels … Brakeman
Greg Swanson … Class President
Vanity … Merry (as D.D. Winters)
Joy Boushel … Pet
Victor Knight … Engineer
Donald Lamoreux … Shovels
Filming locations:
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Claremont, New Hampshire, USA (Kenny’s death scene)
(21st November 1979 to 23rd December 1979)
Technical details:
1 hour 37 minutes
Audio: Mono
Aspect ratio: 1.85: 1
Working title:
Train to Terror
Release date:
20th Century Fox released Terror Train in the USA on October 3, 1980.
Budget and Box office:
Budgeted at approximately $3.5 million, Terror Train took $8 million at the US box office (although 20th Century Fox apparently spent a whopping $5 million on prints and marketing). Global box office results are not available.
