Other Titles • Panico en el Transiberiano • Panic in the Trans-Siberian Train (1972) • Panic on the Trans-Siberian Express • Panic on The Trans-Siberian-Train
Synopses for Horror Express (1973)
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A Nightmare Of Terror On Board The Trans-Siberian Express Get ready for a train ride to hell! Classic horror actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee (Lord of the Rings) star in this horror movie set on the Trans-Siberian Express. English anthropologist (Lee) has discovered a frozen humanoid creature and is using the train to ship it to Russia for further examination. But the beast thaws out and starts killing the passengers one by one. Now, it is up to Dr. Wells (Cushing) and the anthropologist to figure out the origins of the monster so that they can kill it.
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Released in 1972 under the international title Panic on the Trans-Siberian Express, this effective horror thriller is now regarded as one of the better European horror films of the 1970s, aided immeasurably by the casting of horror icons Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Set at the turn of the 20th century, the story begins in China when the arrogant British Professor Saxton (played by Lee) boards the Trans-Siberian Express with a mysterious crate containing a body that he claims is the missing link in human evolution. What he doesn't know is that his ancient discovery is still alive--a monster with glowing red eyes that stare into the eyes of its victims, boiling their brains and absorbing their intelligence, turning them into zombies possessed by the creature's evolving personality! Pretty soon even Telly Savalas (as a power-mad Cossack) is raving among the train full of zombies, and it's up to Lee and rival anthropologist Cushing to destroy them... or die! There's a surplus of thrills and chills in this sharp, fast-paced Spanish-British production, made at a time when suspense and clever writing were still valued over graphic gore and special effects. --Jeff Shannon
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Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing star in this creepy tale of a long-frozen "missing link" discovered in the ice in Northern China. As the frozen relic is being transported to England via a trans-Siberian train, passengers begin turning up dead, their eyes drained of all color. This excellent forgotten horror gem has the look and feel of a Hammer production, though it's Spanish. Oh, and Telly Savalas is in it, too!
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A nightmare of terror traveling on the horror express!
Movie legends Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing take you on a train trip you'll never forget on the Horror Express. It's 1906 and an English explorer makes a remarkable discovery in ancient Manchurian ice. Could the frozen strange humanoid that he's found be the legendary and much sought-after "missing link"? He removes this prehistoric creature from its final resting place, carefully crates it, and loads it on the Trans-Siberian express for the long trip home to London. Suddenly the "missing link" disappears from its crate-and corpses and zombies begin to appear all over the train.
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1906: In the icy caves of Northern China, Professor Alexander Saxton (Christopher Lee) makes a remarkable discovery that could change the history of mankind! He boards the Trans-Siberian Express with his chief rival, Dr. Wells (Peter Cushing) and his new discovery - a frozen creature believed to be the Missing Link in the evolution chain - locked safely in a large wooden crate. Desperate for a look at the new discovery, Dr. Wells pays a clerk to drill a peephole in the locked crate. After the clerk disappears, everyone gets a look inside the crate containing the frozen creature, but all they find is the dead clerk! The hunt for the deadly monster now begins as more and more dead bodies begin to pile up. Saxton and Wells race to find the creature's weakness before it's too late, but how do you kill something that's been living for centuries?
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In the early 1900s, anthropologist Alexander Saxton (Christopher Lee) unearths in China what he believes to be the scientific find of the century: the centuries-old frozen body of a gigantic ape-like man, a veritable "missing link." Booking a ticket on the train back to Europe with his crated-up, but still very healthy discovery, he joins an international group of passengers on a nightmarish adventure aboard the Horror Express.
Even before the train embarks, things are amiss: a thief who tries to pick the lock on the monster's box is discovered stone-dead, his eyes turned completely white like two poached eggs. After the creature awakens and begins knocking off other travelers, Saxton is eventually forced to enlist the help of rival scientist Dr. Wells (Peter Cushing). The two British doctors soon begin a cat-and-mouse game of discovery, learning bits of information about the creature - which turns out to be a non-corporeal alien intelligence only temporarily inhabiting the ape-man - and trying to stop its bloody rampage through the train as it steals enough information from the brains of various passengers to enable it to return home.
Horror Express is a relentlessly entertaining cult favorite and by far the best 1970s pairing of genre stalwarts Cushing and Lee - this time around not as enemies (as in their Hammer Dracula pictures), but as reluctant comrades forced to combat a malign, extraterrestrial and almost diabolical creature bent on human destruction.
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