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Horror Express (1972)
Topic Started: Jan 1 2012, 09:27 AM (296 Views)
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Russia, 1906, a train bound for.... Doomsville! Stuffy Christopher Lee has found a frozen caveman in the wilds of Siberia, and he's taking it back to the West for study. Well, that's what he says, but did anyone but me notice that he looks just like Mr. McDougal, the House of Horror guy in Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein? So he probably wants to put it on display. Don't matter none, 'cause everybody that gets near the thing has blood erupt from their eyes and then they drop dead. Peter Cushing, also on the train, has a theory that the darn thing is alive and killing people, and he's sure the hell right. Turns out it's not a caveman, it's a space alien who visited Earth centuries before and has survived by jumping from one host to another, and now it's jumping around on the train. Luckily, a team of police cossacks, headed by the bombastic Telly Savalas, arrives to sort things out.

Dunno how it is I haven't seen this before; it's been available for 30 years on various cheap public domain tapes and whatnot, but I'm glad I waited. The new Severin Blu-ray looks very good and has a lot of interesting bonus material, including a fawning intro by some guy from Fangoria magazine, who just loves this film. Stony, I'm just sorry I never saw this thing on the Ghoul's show, I was thinking of him as I watched it, it's right up his alley.

An interesting mix of 1970s cheese, gothic horror, science-fiction, and light gore. I liked it a lot, and Savalas cracked me up. What a ham.
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I haven't watched this either. I'm not big on Hammer films, unless they're vampire flicks. I did like The Wicker Man though.

Telly Savalas as a cossack? Typecasting!
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