Staring into the eyes of its victims until blood starts dripping out, the thing makes their eyes eventually become completely white. The monster fossil seems inspired by elements of Quatermass and the Pit and Attack of the Crab Monsters. Fella_shibby 8 January 2017. Actor Mel Welles built a minor career as a director. Ted Newsom recalls his association with Bernard Gordon and begins with a primer on blacklisting. But you might want to hang on to the older Severin disc, as it also includes an original Spanish track. Halevy’s real name was Julian Zimet, but the blacklist prevented him from using it when he wrote Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Naked Dawn, Henry Hathaway’s Circus World and Andrew Marton’s Crack in the World, films produced in Mexico, Spain and England. Reviewed: February 8, 2019 The interior train sets are quite good. Either the new source is cleaner or Arrow has done some digital cleanup. I looked up "Keep Watching the Skies" here @ Web Archive and can find no mention of the film in it at all even at the pages listed. We’re told that all of the exterior train shots (except the station at the beginning) are miniatures, which I believe is entirely possible. Glenn Erickson left a small town for UCLA film school, where his spooky student movie about a haunted window landed him a job on the CLOSE ENCOUNTERS effects crew. Years earlier, producer Sidney Pink relocated to Denmark to make a pair of fantasy films more cheaply than he could in Hollywood. The Campaign Book ends with a set of essays to help establish mood for Horror on the Orient Express. Horror Express is a highly enjoyable & likable sci-fi horror film in the best tradition of Hammer horror with a good cast & it has an adventurous story that tries to be different as it mixes religion, horror & sci-fi. It was fun. Produced by Bernard Gordon Margheriti’s effects work in general has always been imaginative and colorful, but not often very realistic. Movie: Very Good Staring into the eyes of its victims until blood starts dripping out, the thing makes their eyes eventually become completely white. Horror Express is a great movie. Also from 2011, an introduction by Chris Alexander positions the film for readers of Fangoria magazine. Fella_shibby 8 January 2017. The musical score is by John Cacavas, his first, although it sounds like he takes heavy inspiration from Ennio Morricone, and works. But almost as if the film isn't interested in that angle for long, once the creature escapes, it's clear to Saxton and Wells that it's no demon but instead a man-ape from two million years ago, and instead of being in a paranormal horror flick, we're in a monster one, as the film bounces from one kind of science fiction adventure to another. Gordon says he lost his wartime job as a story editor right after the war, when his employer Paramount purged ‘the leftists’ from its story department. I wouldn’t say that the transfer is so much better that an upgrade is essential, but I noticed the improvement right away. While travelling on the Trans-Siberian Express, an anthropologist and his rival must contain the threat posed by the former's cargo: a prehistoric ape which is the host for a lifeform that is absorbing the minds of the passengers and crew. Fans looking to see everything by Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee found it a bright spot amid less rewarding attractions: Nothing but the Night, From Beyond the Grave. Although it hasn’t the best reputation, it’s one I’ve never seen, and its original poster is a beauty. It’s a spooky, snowy train ride across thousands of miles of Siberian rails — trapped on board with a victim-possessing creature from outer space, with eyes that kill! Arrow Video’s Blu-ray of Horror Express follows up on a 2011 BD from Severin Films that came with an impressive selection of extras. I let the addition of Horror Express sit while I researched it and can not find any evidence to back it up. YES; Subtitles: English (feature only) A Cossack Captain named Kazan (Telly Savalas) comes aboard to put paid to the creature, only to see his troops transformed into a platoon of the Living Dead. Horror Express is eclectic to say the least. Saxton and Wells maintain a proper British rationality, but find themselves at a loss for ideas to defeat the menace: just looking at one of the possessed demon-men is deadly. More than a few American actors and writers ended up in European production, sometimes to avoid the blacklist but more often because they found themselves to be more marketable in Rome or Madrid. When a soldier suggests that Wells or Saxby could be hosting a body-hopping menace, Cushing’s Wells is deeply offended: Telly Savalas was given equal billing on American posters, but his Cossack Captain is an abbreviated guest star turn. Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Telly Savalas, Alberto de Mendoza, Silvia Tortosa, Julio Peña, Ángel del Pozo, Helga Liné. I, for one, am deeply disturbed by anything involving eyes, so I often found myself looking away. Glenn is grateful for Trailers From Hell’s generous offer of a guest reviewing haven for CineSavant. He's been warned that there is something evil inside, but to him, this is preposterous. The "Godfather of Gore" Lucio Fluci is known for a number of powerfully gross horror films, but along with the classic Zombi 2, this is one of the most famous. Alas, I wanted to see so much more of them in some kind of dark mystery on a train, whether or not there was some evil inter-planetary demon man-ape. A decade later he produced a trio of films with Eugenio Martín, a competent director who had filmed second unit for Luis Buñuel on Tristana. Horror Express is the best remembered of the three. The screenplay by Arnaud d'Usseau and Julian Zimet is not good, but it at least has some humor in it. But there very much is something monstrous he's brought on board. Convinced that the powerful alien is The Devil, Pajardov switches allegiances and offers himself as a vessel for possession. When Dr. Wells’ post-mortem opens up a victim’s skull, we’re told that the ‘smooth, featureless, blank’ brain inside indicates that all of the victim’s memory has been extracted. Lee and Cushing do the best they can as their characters discover through the scientific method and gross surgical autopsies of the victims that the creature came from outer space in dialogue that is two decades too old, although I couldn't tell if they were taking it seriously or not. The monster is cornered and shot, but transfers its life-force to a new host, and the killings continue. Later on, Wells extracts fluid from the dead creature’s grisly eye and examines it under a microscope. Horror Express. It’s all in the way the miniature trains are filmed. Not carried over from the first disc is an audio interview with Peter Cushing, recorded in 1973. Saxton remains secretive even as things predictably start to go wrong, like when passengers start being violently killed. Señor Martín’s English is okay, but we can’t help but think that could have said much more if he’d spoken in his native Spanish. Although there isn’t as much comedy relief as some reviewers seem to think, Saxton and Wells remind us superficially of Naughton Wayne and Basil Radford, the droll duo from Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes that worry about cricket matches back in England even as their lives are threatened. In China’s Szechuan Province in 1906, the stuffy Professor Sir Alexander Saxton (Christopher Lee) finds a fossilized ‘missing link,’ and packs it in a carefully locked crate for shipment West on the Transsiberian Express. Kill it does. The only one who seems to embrace the camp is Telly Savalas as a Russian captain who shows up near the end of the film and who tries to destroy the ape-man alien himself. Blu-ray One happy discovery for many fans is 1972’s Horror Express (Pánico en el transiberiano), which circulated on double bills in the middle 1970s; I remember catching it at the old Fairfax Theater, with Larry Cohen’s It’s Alive. Overall, Horror Express is a fun and entertaining genre mash-up with an amazing cast, interesting terrors, and a fascinating location as a period movie. Passengers turn up dead, with their eyes burned white and bleeding. Glenn Erickson answers most reader mail: cinesavant@gmail.com. CineSavant was able to compare the two releases. It was cheap. Priest Pajardov is a thinly disguised Rasputin clone. Deaf and Hearing-impaired Friendly? Saxton and Wells make use of an oil lamp to neutralize their inhuman opponent. Unless my ears are being fooled, Christopher Lee voices himself in word-perfect, mellifluous Castillian Spanish. Fear, a thriller that did not see much critical acclaim. When actor/writer Mickey Knox tried producing, he discovered a new world of shaky financing and unenforceable showbiz contracts. There are counts and countesses on board, but they're disposable, and there is no recognition among the characters of how absurd everything is. The capable David Gregory and his team assembled several well-chosen items, the capper being a lengthy 2005 interview with Bernard Gordon. Arrow’s other new extras are opinion pieces from two capable and well-known genre commentators. Gordon hired a fellow blacklistee, Julian Halevy, to help pen the script. Packaging: One Blu-ray in Keep case The production team tried the best they can, I suppose. A mysterious creature (or spirit, or alien) terrorizes the passengers of a train from China to Russia. For the remake, two out of three really is bad. Horror Express, the nineteenth of twenty-four films in which they both appeared, is indeed one such bad film. If you do already own this movie, get it again on this Blu-ray. Blu-ray rates: Gregory’s interviewers also taped a sit-down with composer John Cavacas, who says that he parlayed an encounter with Telly Savalas into a career in film and television music. He says outright that Gordon was indeed a former Communist. It is The Thing set on a train with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and it is as awesome as that sounds. As in a View-Master presentation, Saxon immediately sees absurd latent images of dinosaurs and the Earth from space, that ‘prove’ that the original alien monster is an extraterrestrial that has been here for millions of years. With the release of Kenneth Branagh’s new adaptation of the Agatha Christie classic Murder On The Orient Express, now is the perfect time to look back upon a criminally underrated terror set on a train, the 1972 sci-fi, horror thriller Horror Express! / Street Date February 12, 2019 / Available from Arrow Video At first, we're to believe that it's some kind of demonic spirit. Director Eugenio Martín is also in for an informative piece. This movie was inspired by Hammer Horror that were made by Hammer Films. Actually, ‘Pánico en el transiberiano’ is a fine show for Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, a Spanish-made chiller with a smart script and some effective shocks. CineSavant was able to compare the two releases. This is the second adaption of “Who Goes There?”, it is also known for being a very loose one at that. Horror Express Studios, Building Horror movie replica props, signs and custom orders. As the creature absorbs human brains, its reserve of knowledge and special talents grows exponentially, just like Corman & Griffith’s atomic crab monsters. Directed by Eugenio Martín. Wells asks. The Campaign Book ends with a set of essays to help establish mood for Horror on the Orient Express.
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