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| Helga Liné painted into HORROR EXPRESS Year: 1972 Rating: **** |
In-between the original THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD and John Carpenter's remake THE THING is HORROR EXPRESS, initially seeming like another period-piece Hammer film starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing — when it's really a low-budget Spanish studio's adaptation of John W. Campbell's THING-based short story Who Goes There?
Beginning with Lee's brooding archeologist, having discovered a man-ape fossil that he cages into the titular snowbound train... joined by Cushing's affable surgeon, part of the crowded coach including beautiful countess Silvia Tortosa; psychotic monk Alberto de Mendoza; seductive stowaway Helga Liné; Miss Marples-style snoop Alice Reinheart; and Julio Peña as the intense onboard lawman who, with a lean build and brooding mustache, looks way too similar to Christopher Lee...
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| From HORROR EXPRESS |
So when the creature's hypnotic bright red eyes turns its victims into likewise bloodletting killers, eventually deeply rooted inside this ferociously possessed inspector, it's confusing when Lee's grim tomb-raider arrives to stop his doppelganger... but soon that spooky-looking, Rasputin-inspired monk carries on the terrifying chain-reacting murders, formidably-effective even during what's the worst sequences, again because of casting...
When a colorfully vivacious Telly Savalas randomly turns up, seeming like a Russian version of Kojak, questioning the paranoid passengers as if the story suddenly belonged entirely to him: an unnecessary distraction in what's an otherwise fully entertaining hybrid of pulpy science-fiction and body-count horror (with Victorian-plush interiors and nifty train-model exteriors) while never losing the suspenseful investigatory buildup, even when inevitably morphing into a kind of last-minute anything-goes zombie-attack action/adventure.
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| Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in HORROR EXPRESS |
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| Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in HORROR EXPRESS with Julio Peña |
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Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in HORROR EXPRESS with Julio Peña
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| Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in HORROR EXPRESS |
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Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in HORROR EXPRESS with Telly Savalas
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| Telly Savalas in HORROR EXPRESS |
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| Alberto de Mendoza in HORROR EXPRESS |
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| Alberto de Mendoza in HORROR EXPRESS |
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Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in HORROR EXPRESS with Alice Reinheart
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| Alberto de Mendoza in HORROR EXPRESS |
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| Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in HORROR EXPRESS |
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| Silvia Tortosa in HORROR EXPRESS |
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| Peter Cushing in HORROR EXPRESS |
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| Christopher Lee in HORROR EXPRESS |
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| Peter Cushing and Helga Liné in HORROR EXPRESS |
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| Silvia Tortosa in HORROR EXPRESS |
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| Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in HORROR EXPRESS |
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| Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in HORROR EXPRESS with Alice Reinheart |
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| Christopher Lee in HORROR EXPRESS |
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Silvia Tortosa in HORROR EXPRESS with Faith Clift
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| Silvia Tortosa in HORROR EXPRESS |
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| Christopher Lee, Silvia Tortosa and Peter Cushing in HORROR EXPRESS |
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| Peter Cushing in HORROR EXPRESS |
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| Peter Cushing in HORROR EXPRESS |
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| Helga Liné in HORROR EXPRESS |
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Silvia Tortosa in HORROR EXPRESS
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