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Halloween changed the horror movie industry in a lot of ways, and popularized the slasher subgenre. It also created the scream queen career of Jamie Lee Curtis. It had some real negative effects as well. For a few years in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, you couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting a teen slasher movie that put her in the role of the final girl or at least final girl-adjacent. Sometimes, you got something fun like The Fog or Road Games. Sometimes you got derivative garbage like Terror Train.
In the nearly 16(!) years I have written this blog, I have watched a lot of garbage. I’ve seen a lot of embarrassing movies, some of which have been forced on me by others as challenges, some from my old podcast, and more than a few from various lists I’ve pursued. There are clearly worse movies than Terror Train that I have watched and written about, but there aren’t a lot that feel this lazy. That, more than anything is what is disappointing about this movie. Terror Train is unquestionably not a good movie, but it’s a far greater sin that it feels like it was written over a weekend by someone who was simultaneously distracted by the television.
