Me and the Missus are watching the Beeb's new train drama, Night sleeper. It's a hack-jacking, a new word on me.
It reminded me of other train dramas, always a difficult job to pull off for any TV or film maker I bet.
There's Speed of course, the runaway train starring Tom Cruise Control. Or is it Keanu Neo Reeves? I forget. It went too fast.
Then there are things I've not seen like the zombie ride Train to Busan and the sci-fier Snowpiercer.
My favourite train-based efforts are all horror flicks: Death Line, set in the London Tube; Creep,not dissimilar to Death Line and my number one, Horror Express, with Kojak himself, Telly Savalas. A great film about a regenerating monster aboard a trans-Siberian express.
An honorable mention has to go to Quatermass and the Pit too, set as it is on the London Underground.
And so to Night Sleeper. Episode 1 wasn't great to be honest. It seemed as if adults were talking and behaving like teenagers. It felt juvenile, clunky and probably worst of all for a disaster film, tensionless. Did you see it?
What's your favourite - or worst - train related TV or movie readers?
You mentioned two of my favorites there - Death Line and Horror Express! Now THOSE are train horror classics! SFZ
ReplyDeleteYes! Was it called Death Line in the US Zigg?
DeleteTerror Train.I like to watch it close to New Year's Eve.
ReplyDeleteWho stars in that Brian? Not sure I know it.
DeleteJaime Lee Curtis.Also appearances by magician David Copperfield and Vanity, of Prince fame
DeleteMy favourite is 'The Train', a 1964 black and white movie, set in WW2.
ReplyDeleteA French Resistance guy, played by Burt Lancaster, tries to stop a train load of French artworks being stolen by the Nazis, towards the end of the war.
It's particularly noteworthy for a fantastic train crash, done full size and for real.
Highly recommended.
I'll give it a whirl Mish. I like Bury Lancaster. The crash sounds spectacular!
DeleteI quite liked 'Howl' (werewolf/train horror movie), Woodsy. Fun first time around.
ReplyDeleteNot seen it Tone. On the list noooowwwwww!
DeleteRunaway Train, with John Voight, based on an Akira Kurosawa treatment!
ReplyDeleteI'll look that one up Looey.
DeleteI can't think of a favorite movie or TV show but I do have a fav YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUDTTdCUldk
ReplyDeleteI'll check it out Terran.
DeleteI dozed off during Agatha Christie's Orient Express, does that count?
ReplyDeleteSo you don't know whodunnit?
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