The remakes continue

[yendi]

Oh my god. They're remaking Terror Train.

The original, as some of you might know, is one of my favorite guilty pleasures of the late '70s (technically, it came out in 1980), combining so many fun elements of that era (transgendered killers, vanishing bodies, the use of not-so-subtle dramatic irony as people assume the killer under the mask is the friend/lover/whatever, and, of course, the ubiquitous Jamie Lee Curtis). Oh, and hey, it featured David Copperfield, playing (get this) a cheesy magician!

I can only hope the remake offers as much as the original.

Comments

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

Dude, Terror Train is a major nostalgia trip for me. It was like the first R-rated horror movie I was allowed to watch on cable. That first scene where the guy sees the corpse and goes bugfuck? Scared the shit out of me. In fact, I can't believe I don't have the DVD. *goes to order DVD*

[yendi]

The only reason I don't own it is that I feel it deserves full special edition treatment (as does Prom Night, of course).