#MONSTERMONDAY:
....So, you've decided to go on that much needed holiday / vacation and
opt for a long journey to your destination by...train. Two days in, the
food is awful, there's always queues for the rest rooms are nasty AND
blocked...and then, there's an ape like maniac loose on the train, who
is roaming around in the dark, killing everyone. You wouldn't mind so
much, but you suspect, he hasn't even
bought a TICKET! Wow. What a Monster! To be fair, the 'primitive
humanoid creature' at the center of this very popular horror film, was
quite happy having nap for 200,000 years, when it was rudely woken,
stuffed in a crate, and lobbed into a train wagon ... not even access to
the buffet car or a second class ticket! I would be stomping around,
fit to murder someone too! The choice is YOURS Monster or Victim?
'HORROR EXPRESS' was made for $300,000 (about £240,570 sterling at today
prices) though you would never know it. With a sparkling cast, headed up
by Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Telly Savalas, the story twists
and zips along like Thomas the Tank engine on sherbert meets The Walking
Dead. While often cited as being loosely borrowing it's format of 'The
Thing from Another World' (1951) . . . this film that has much more
going for it, than just that... and there is something for
everyone...monster on a train, Cushing, Lee, zombies .. and a very
humm-able theme tune, provided by John Cacavas, who also wrote the theme
to 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula'.
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