Advantages: Gritty and disturbing horror ahead of its time Disadvantages: The first 20 minutes or so drag on rather too long
...were really tight as the horror genre in respect of the Hammer style was going fast out of fashion. Hammer had secured their most ambitious project yet for filming taking the style of Hammer movies to a new dimension, however there was absolutely no money in their coffers to make the feature. A sacrifice was made that would cost Hammer deeply, their ambitious movie "Trans Siberian Terror" was sold to a Spanish company, along with the deal came three ... ...Savalas. Quickly rebranded Horror Express or Pánico en el Transiberiano, the Spanish team had cast the rest of the movie, shot it, edited it, released publicity and had the movie in the cinemas in just under 4 weeks. The Spanish producers were keen to get involved in the genre knowing that they could produce bigger scale movies at a smaller cost due to taxing and financial help offered by the Spanish government. What they did not take into account ...
sghawken 13.09.2006
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Advantages: This is one of the best films that Cushing and Lee made together. A classic. Disadvantages: Some of the dubbed voices are a bit distracting.
...Ridley Scott's Alien there was Horror Express. The claustrophobic confines of a train in place of the Nostromo as the hunting ground for a killer of extra-terrestrial origin.
This Fantastically eerie gothic horror, with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee at their British best, is only let down by some of the dubbed voices. This is a minor quibble (it was an anglo-spanish production after all!)
THE FILM
Provincia de Szecuan, China, 1906.
Professor ... ...are to encounter on the Horror Express.
THE PRODUCTION
An anglo-spanish production filmed in sumptuous Eastmancolor, made by Benmar Productions and Granada Films in Madrid, December 1971. Entitled Panico en el Transiberiano (Panic on the Trans-Siberian Express) in Spain, it is more commonly known as Horror Express.
Bernard Gordon produced with Gene Martin directing. The screenplay was written by Arnaud D'Usseau and Julian Halevy, based on a story ...
paramanjara 18.07.2007
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In the early 1900s anthropologist Alexander Saxton (Christopher Lee) unearths in China ... more
what he believes to be the scientific find of the new century: the centuries-old frozen body of a gigantic ape-like man a veritable "missing link." Booking a ticke...
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