That crowning jewel of internal improvement in czarist Russia, the Trans-Siberian Railroad is the scene of a really good horror film from that team of classic horror film actors, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. And the film was not even done for Hammer Studios, it's a Spanish production.
The plains of Spain stand in for steppes of Russia in Horror Express. Anthropologist Christopher Lee has unearthed in the tundra the frozen body of a creature he thinks is the missing link. But the link thaws out and he starts running amuck on the train.
Then it turns out that this thing is not some link between man and ape, but some alien that landed here in our Cenezoic age and grafted with one of those apes. It absorbs intelligence from those around when killing them, but there wasn't much to absorb from the link between simian and sapien. Now it's got some good subjects to feast on for knowledge.
Horror Express is a very good science fiction/horror mix with a couple of the best in the genre starring. We also get Telly Savalas playing a Cossack leader who stops the train, but of course has no idea what he's dealing with. The film holds up very well from 1972 and is a must for horror film fans.
The plains of Spain stand in for steppes of Russia in Horror Express. Anthropologist Christopher Lee has unearthed in the tundra the frozen body of a creature he thinks is the missing link. But the link thaws out and he starts running amuck on the train.
Then it turns out that this thing is not some link between man and ape, but some alien that landed here in our Cenezoic age and grafted with one of those apes. It absorbs intelligence from those around when killing them, but there wasn't much to absorb from the link between simian and sapien. Now it's got some good subjects to feast on for knowledge.
Horror Express is a very good science fiction/horror mix with a couple of the best in the genre starring. We also get Telly Savalas playing a Cossack leader who stops the train, but of course has no idea what he's dealing with. The film holds up very well from 1972 and is a must for horror film fans.