Terror Train is a 1980 Canadian horror film, directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, and David Copperfield. While most of the students of Sigma Phi are celebrating their freshman year, some of them are playing an elaborate prank on Kenny Hampson , a shy and extremely awkward young man. The feisty group is composed of Alana , Doc , Mitchy , Jack , Mo , and Ed . Telling Kenny that Alana wants to sleep with him, they encourage their fragile subject up to a bedroom where his lovely consort is supposedly waiting for him. Kenny undresses - but when he pulls the... curtain on the canopied bedhe finds a horrific sight. There is an actual corpse in the bed . Needless to say, poor Kenny is pushed mercilessly from nerd territory into the lonely abyss of insanity. Three years later, said students are preparing for an elaborate graduation masquerade party on a chartered steam train.
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| Release date: | October 3, 1980 |
| Directed by: | Roger Spottiswoode |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 97 Minutes |
| Music by: | John Mills-Cockell |
| Cinematography: | John Alcott |
| Estimated budget: | $3,500,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller |