On IMDb, the score of 10 has become so bastardized that mediocre and silly films like HORROR EXPRESS receive gobs of 10s. Folks, get a grip. This is not GONE WITH THE WIND or DR. STRANGELOVE! Classic this film ain't! Sure, it's okay if you like Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing together in a film. Great. Enjoy. But don't be ludicrous and give movies like this a 10! There are just too many flaws and silly plot twists to merit such a score. Horror films that deserve 10s are rare and should be reserved for such films as Dracula (1931), FRANKENSTEIN (1931), NOSFERATU (1922) and perhaps a handful of others--not low budget Spanish films with overacting like you see by Telly Savalas and a super-strange idea for a horror flick.
Christopher Lee thinks he's solved the puzzle of the missing link when he finds some frozen primordial creature. However, unexpectedly, when the think begins to thaw on board a train, it comes alive and goes on a killing spree. Once killed, you'd think the movie would be over but somehow the creature transferred its consciousness into another and another killing rampage begins. It turns out that the creature is an astronaut from another galaxy! Despite having survived for so long living inside other creatures, it's apparently very easy to kill and the movie ends on a very anti-climactic note.
Pluses for the film were seeing Lee and Cushing, though Lee did seem a tad illogical and nasty--too much really. And as for Telly Savalas, he did a walk-on that frankly didn't fit the film and he seemed about as Russian as Flip Wilson. Where was his accent? What was his motivation? What was his role in the film? Beats me, actually. Minuses, aside from Savalas, were the silly plot, the character of the monk (who made no sense whatsoever--none) and the terrible conclusion. Not a bad film, but certainly NOT a classic to anyone but the Kool-Aid drinkers who would think to score this film a 10!
Christopher Lee thinks he's solved the puzzle of the missing link when he finds some frozen primordial creature. However, unexpectedly, when the think begins to thaw on board a train, it comes alive and goes on a killing spree. Once killed, you'd think the movie would be over but somehow the creature transferred its consciousness into another and another killing rampage begins. It turns out that the creature is an astronaut from another galaxy! Despite having survived for so long living inside other creatures, it's apparently very easy to kill and the movie ends on a very anti-climactic note.
Pluses for the film were seeing Lee and Cushing, though Lee did seem a tad illogical and nasty--too much really. And as for Telly Savalas, he did a walk-on that frankly didn't fit the film and he seemed about as Russian as Flip Wilson. Where was his accent? What was his motivation? What was his role in the film? Beats me, actually. Minuses, aside from Savalas, were the silly plot, the character of the monk (who made no sense whatsoever--none) and the terrible conclusion. Not a bad film, but certainly NOT a classic to anyone but the Kool-Aid drinkers who would think to score this film a 10!