In 1980’s Terror Train, a young Jamie Lee Curtis (fresh off the success of John Carpenter’s Halloween) and some friends hop a train for what’s expected to be a rowdy New Year’s Eve costume party. One thing leads to another, and various characters start getting picked off, one by one. Who’s the killer, and do these murders have anything to do with a prank gone horribly awry at a New Year’s Eve party several years earlier? You probably know the answer to that.
Anyway, the folks at Tubi have remade Terror Train (they’re calling it a “contemporary reimagining”), and are apparently dropping the film on their service next week – October 21st, to be precise.
Let’s take a look at that trailer…
Yeah, looks like everything’s in its right place here: the train, the costume party, the rowdy college kids who are practically begging to get murdered. As far as contemporary reimaginings of Terror Train go, this looks both highly watchable and pretty faithful to the source material.
For those who require such things, here’s an official plot synopsis:
“In this contemporary reimagining, eerie excitement is in the air as Alana and a group of college seniors board a party train for a Halloween-themed bash, but their fun spirals into fear as attendees are killed off one by one by an unknown killer. Concealed by costumes and plagued with chaos, everyone is a suspect. As the party train continues full steam ahead, Alana must race against the rails to find the killer before she becomes the next victim.”
We’ll be giving Terror Train a whirl when it hits Tubi on October 21st. How ’bout you?
