Horror Express [1972]

RRP £12.99 Lowest New Price £2.97

Suitable for 12 years and over Cinema Club Release date: Monday 16th of October 2006 Starring: Telly Savalas, Alberto De Mendoza, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Julio Pena, Director(s): Format: PAL, Region code: 2 Running time: 88 minutes Language: English (Original Language)

RRP: £12.99
Let me get off this train quick!
Review date: 2008-11-02 Rating: 4 out of 10

This film apparently enjoys a reputation as a 'cult classic'. While I've seen worse films, it's not really what I'd call a great film, or even a good film.This Spanish made production has the feel of a spaghetti western with its unconvincing performances and bad dubbing.Here's the plot: English scientist Christopher Lee, intent on proving the theory of evolution, brings a neanderthal ape like fossil discovered in China on board an oriental express train. Peter Cushing plays another scientist, whose curiousity is responsible for unleashing the monster on the unsuspecting passengers, who are rendered into zombies after encountering it. Telly Savalas makes an appearance as a sadistic drunken cossack towards the end. Can they save the remaining passengers from a similar fate? If you can be bothered finding out, you'll have to purchase this little 'gem'-at least it's cheaply priced and is worth seeing as an old curiosity- but nothing more. It's not aged very well but has a 70's kitsch value. Lee, Cushing, and Savalas have made better films, to say the least.