Night Train to Terror (1985)
35KNight Train to Terror: Directed by John Carr, Phillip Marshak, Tom McGowan, Jay Schlossberg-Cohen, Gregg G. Tallas. With Barbara Wyler, Jamie Scoggin, Stacey Lyons, Linda Maderas. God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes. One involves an insane asylums with some very interesting treatment plans. Another involves a ‘death club’. The final story shows us the adventures of a server of Satan. This is a strange movie.
“As stated in other comments, this pandemonious cinematic nose-dive is a careless tangle of three of the directoru0026#39;s previously released masterworks in condensed form. The admixture is then kneaded into what was presumably intended to pass off as an anthology film, naturally inclusive of a ridiculous wraparound story filmed specifically to make this fish-out-of-water gel somewhat. Unfortunately, what this slapdash recipe yields is an asymmetrical, crudely doctored Frankenstein monster. Truth is, NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR is possibly the most disorienting cinematic achievement since PSYCHED BY THE 4-D WITCH…a feat, to be sure. Iu0026#39;ve been exposed to two of these stories in their original formats…DEATH WISH CLUB and CATACLYSM, both of which are somewhat interesting B minus trash flicks. The segment featuring 70s superstud John Phillip Law, however, I have yet to track down(something called SCREAM YOUR HEAD OFF/MARILYN ALIVE AND BEHIND BARS, which looks to be a right inviting little crock-o-schlock).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSome heinous early MTV rock video styled nonsense is mashed up in the u0026quot;newu0026quot; portion of this palimpsest, guilty of some of the worst fashion bummers ever committed to film. NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR is such an all-wrong royal faux-pa that to be unmoved by gleeful schadenfreude at its expense would seem next to impossible.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e4/10”
