Terror Express (1980) (2024)

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• Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★ 2

  Mean-spirited genre trash from Ferdinando Baldi (Django, Prepare a Coffin and Nine Guests for a Crime) about a group of hoodlums terrorizing a train. Most of the men are total sleazeballs, and I'm not just talking about the hoodlums (the father fantasizing about fucking his daughter for instance). Lots of nudity and also a few sexual assault sequences. It gets pretty vicious. More than a couple of genre regulars appear: Werner Pochath, Zora Kerova, Carlo de Mejo and Silvia Dionisio (♥️).

  Nothing too special, but still a "good" time.

• Review by Tony the Terror ★★★

  Sundays are for Italian movies.

  This was sleazy as hell and reminded me of a less intense version of Late Night Trains although both are kind of ripoffs of The Last House on the Left.

  The main difference between this and Trains is that this focuses mostly on the bad guys having sex (some consensual and some not) with everyone while Trainsis more focused on degradation and violence. Really almost everyone in this gets naked and has sex with someone and yet there’s not a single visible dick in sight. That’s what I call a travesty.

  Still, it was an entertaining film full of familiar faces from other Italian genre films. I did not see a bottle of J&B anywhere, but still want to give them a shout out for having a new trans inclusive commercial that’s really beautiful. J&B really just be the gift that’s been giving good face my whole European movie watching life.

• Review by Graham ★★★

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  A nasty little Italian joint centred on a group of 20-something hoodlums who take over a train full of unsuspecting folks. After a series of physical encounters, some consensual, some not so much, the travellers take a stand but not before outing themselves as a proper messed up and sleazy bunch.

  ‘La ragazza del vagone letto’ is a thoroughly vile 80 minutes of criminal activity from mostly terrible actors whose eyes are too close together, and it’s certainly not for the feint of heart.

• Review by Matt Winfield ★★★ 2

  Pure exploitation sleaze on the rails. Similar vibes to Late Night Trains if you take the whole Last House on the Left family revenge angle out of the final act. It's about as trashy as they come.

  This initially caught my attention because George Eastman was the writer, but there's not a whole lot going on in the story department. Three thugs take a train car hostage – raping, torturing, and humiliating everyone on board while the train rolls on endlessly into the night. The stuff with the prisoner playing hero was good enough to keep things moving plotwise, and the claustrophobic setting helps crank the terror to high. The lowlifes were super slimy as expected, but holy shit that father was skeezing HARD over his daughter, and everybody was wayyyy too into the deflowering dice game... This train was doomed before the trio even got on board.

• Review by JSlattery ★★★½

  A trio of lowlifes commandeer a carriage of a night train and embark on an orgy of rape and humiliation among the passengers,some of whom are themselves morally dubious, to say the least! Incredible..this low-rent Italian sexploiter is definitely the sleaziest film I've seen in a while! How sleazy, you ask, gentle reader? How about a father who pays a hooker to wear his daughters nightdress while he fucks her, and later when the baddies are rolling dice to see who gets to deflower said daughter,the father looks genuinely disappointed when he rolls a low number..that sleazy enough for you? Of course it's very similar to 'Late Night Trains',from a few years before, but this ratchets the sleaze factor up…

• Review by Chris Davies-Rowan ★★★

  Sleaze. From scene one to the finale. It's cheap, dirty, cringe inducing and fun as hell. It's like the train section of Hostel 2 protracted over 80 minutes. It's really sleazy. REALLY sleazy. So, if you like public molestations, father's paying prostitutes to dress like their daughters, European men with perms hassling ladies, oddly placed social commentary and more sleaze than you can shake a wang at then you're in for a treat here!

• Review by Michael Shawn ★★★

  Three rapey, sadistic fucks take a train car hostage and perpetrate random indecencies against the passengers, mostly rape. There is a TON of nudity in this, but of course it's of the double-standard variety in which women must do full-frontal while men get a pass and coyly hide their dicks no matter what contortions that involves. This is pretty much garden variety Italian trash, no better or worse than most. It clearly takes its inspiration from Hollywood movies of the '60s & '70s like 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙚𝙡𝙝𝙖𝙢 𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝙏𝙬𝙤 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 and 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩, only adding lots of rape. Did I mention all the rape? Yeah... there's also some incestuous tendencies. Man, Italians are weird. All of the acting is overstated,…

• Review by G31071984 ★★★½

  I´ve rarely seen a movie poster that sums up the entire picture as perfect as the one from "Terror Express". It is a sleaze-fest with a mixture of sex and violence. And Sex. And a little bit of violence. Seriously, once the plot is established there is almost no stopping between those sex-sequences. I think the film makes up for that with a great ending and great characters (if you wanna call them that in an exploitation-flick). But it is certainly far away from being boring....

• Review by Rod Lott ★★

  You know those movies on a train where two people start to kiss and the film cuts away to the symbolic “train enters tunnel” shot? This package of Eurosleaze has zero use for symbolism.

• Review by David Sodergren ★½

  You can’t go too far wrong with exploitation horror set on a train, but Terror Express is the exception that proves the rule. Mind-numbingly bland sleaze that takes 40 fucking minutes to even get going, with the most repellant cast of characters you’ve ever seen, and a cheap electronic score from the normally reliable Marcello Giombini.

  The train setting provides some much needed atmosphere, and Giombini does provide a couple of decent — if rather squelchy — cues, but at the end of the day, this is little more than a poor man’s Late Night Trains.

• Review by Dennis Vehlen ★★★½

  Ferdinando Baldi's ultra sleazy 'Terror Express' was a lot of fun, with a great cast of known Italian character actors (including a number of future Fulci stars). Werner Pochath's performance is one of the highlights. The script was apparently written by the great George Eastman - shame he wasn't in it, too.

• Review by Slig001 ★★½

  Rape and murder on the snorient express