Night Train to Terror (1985) - 10.08.13

[redrunner97]

NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR:



Night Train to Terror Blu-ray


BLU-RAY + DVD COMBO
Available October 8th, 2013
Vinegar Syndrome
http://vinegarsyndrome.com/launch/?p...or-bddvd-combo

Originally Posted by Vinegar Syndrome

Aboard a fast moving train bound for Hell, God and Satan decide the fates of three unfortunate mortals. In Harry, a fiendish killer keeps the horribly mutilated body parts of his countless victims in a diabolical tourture chamber. In Gretta, a young woman, obsessed with death, takes part in an unspeakable ritual of Russian roulette. Finally in Claire, a young woman and a Holocaust survivor are terrorized by the son of Satan! Night Train To Terror comes to you on home video for the very first time in its original aspect ratio and restored in 2k from 35mm film elements.

Directed by Jay Schlossberg-Cohen.

1985 | Color | 93min | AR 1.85:1

Bonus Features:
+ Blu-ray & DVD Combo | Region Free | 1.85:1 AR | DTS-HD Master Audio
+ Restored in 2K from 35mm elements
+ Bonus feature film: GRETTA (DVD only / Sourced from 1″ Master)
+ Interview with Producer/Director Jay Schlossberg-Cohen
+ Interview with Assistant Editor Wayne Schmidt
+ Commentary track by The Hysteria Continues
+ Theatrical trailer

[mar3o]

Outrageous! If there is one film I never imagined would hit blu-ray, it's this one. This is a total cheese-fest. But I can't lie - it's a guilty pleasure for me. Just try to get that song out of your head once you've heard it.

Also, I love that they used the original artwork. Very nice.

[JaseT]

Originally Posted by mar3o

Outrageous! If there is one film I never imagined would hit blu-ray, it's this one. This is a total cheese-fest. But I can't lie - it's a guilty pleasure for me. Just try to get that song out of your head once you've heard it.

Also, I love that they used the original artwork. Very nice.

Nothing quite like "blu cheese."

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by JaseT

Nothing quite like "blu cheese."

"Everybody's got something to do - everybody but you!"

[redrunner97]

And we know it will look and sound phenomenal, Vinegar Syndrome does great work.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by redrunner97

And we know it will look and sound phenomenal, Vinegar Syndrome does great work.

I'm not familiar with their releases.

Who's doing the commentary?

I think it's great that we're getting the full film "Gretta" as an extra.

[redrunner97]

The Hysteria Continues is similar to RiffTrax, it basically talks about the film and pokes fun at the same time.

And Vinegar Syndrome is a newer company but their films are top-notch in terms of quality. There's a thread with info and reviews:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...negar+syndrome

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by redrunner97

The Hysteria Continues is similar to RiffTrax, it basically talks about the film and pokes fun at the same time.

And Vinegar Syndrome is a newer company but their films are top-notch in terms of quality. There's a thread with info and reviews:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...negar+syndrome

In that case the commentary should be hilarious. This movie has MST3k written all over it. I can just imagine Tom Servo and Crow having a blast with this one. Except it's pretty gory - they would have had to cut some stuff I think.

[redrunner97]

All of the VinSyn films are good too, strangely.

I highly recommend all of them (there's only 4 now) but they have one a month planned until October. So you should be able to catch up cheaply.

[Jobla]

GRETTA is worth the price of admission (on the NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR disc). GRETTA plays like a lost attempt at film noir by Ed Wood during his decline period.

[redrunner97]

Yes it ts.

[DarknessBDJM]

THis looks like the kind of 80's campthat I love. It's coming out in time for me to get it along with Nightmare City, which will mean 80's camp heaven.

[cakefactory]

I bought a bunch of those "HORROR CLASSICS 4 MOVIE SET" etc public domain sets that used to fill best buy racks, and Night Train to Terror was by far the most entertaining movie we ever saw on one of these. The first two segments are just absolute nonstop hilarity, and the fact they're edited down from full movies adds to the fun since it removes most of the boring exposition and just gives us all the highlights from three pieces of crap. (One of my friends was so obsessed with this movie he ordered VHS copies of "Scream Your Head Off" and "Death Wish Club" off of ebay - they were nowhere near as entertaining in full-length.)

Some of the horrendous edits/transitions imposed by shortening it added to the humor, and there's so much bizarre stuff in those three movies that it almost never gets boring. The first segment in particular is great for this. I seem to remember a horrible jump cut from someone getting hit with an axe straight to the middle of a note from some old ladies in a church choir.

These were the segments, I think (I haven't seen it in 4 or 5 years):

1) John Phillip Law gets brainwashed into helping some sinister lady and her oafish german assistant with their bodypart harvesting operation. There are numerous scenes of screaming naked women on tables being walked towards with saws and then pans over collections of severed limbs on the walls. Somehow John Phillip Law slipping women roofies at a bar figures into this. There are tons of awesomely bad gore effects, the soundtrack is taken straight from public domain 40s horror movies, and it's hilarious the whole way through.

2) A couple gets sucked into a club that likes to play exotic variants of russian roulette. There's one scene with a ridiculous claymation mosquito that flies off into public and stings some random extra whose face then explodes in a gory mess. There's a talking electrocution computer that toasts a jimi hendrix lookalike. It's good.

3) This one is a bit slowmoving compared to the first two but does feature nazis machinegunning musicians at dinner in a flashback scene, a giant stop-motion demon, and climaxes with the heroine performing open-heart surgery on the villain while he's awake (he's an immortal servant of satan that can only be stopped by removing his heart and putting it in a box, or something).

And then the wrap segments feature the above-linked song being played over and over while god and satan discuss who's going to get what soul from whichever segment we were just shown (it doesn't fit AT ALL).

Seriously, if you like cheesy/bad horror flicks, you are almost guaranteed to love this. I watched my garbage pan and scan DVD (on which it was so compressed that it fit three other movies on the same disc) a good 8 times with various friends, it's one of the most-watched movies in my collection. I'd rank it even higher than sleepaway camp 1/2 and manos the hands of fate for bad movie party fodder. I love this movie and try to make everyone I know who could possibly find it funny watch it. I really do love this movie and am surprised it's so obscure (well, I mean, compared to the likes of The Room or Robot Monster or whatever) when it's so damn funny.

I'll buy this release for sure. I appreciate that they're trying to put together extras for it, but even a barebones release with a half-decent transfer would be on my buy list. I really can't recommend this highly enough if you like bad movies and won't get offended by some of the incredibly offensive content in the first segment (a fair amount of gore, nudity, and one rape scene, not too graphic but certainly not discreet).

[redrunner97]

Got mine in the mail today. My screener. Gonna pop it in l8er.

[Jobla]

When you get a chance, please comment about the transfer of GRETTA, which is an extra on the DVD disc. GRETTA is one of the films that has been shortened for NIGHT TRAIN, but I prefer it in its full-length version.

SPOILER ALERT:

A main character in GRETTA undergoes a sex change, which is not apparent in the edited version.

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by cakefactory

I bought a bunch of those "HORROR CLASSICS 4 MOVIE SET" etc public domain sets that used to fill best buy racks, and Night Train to Terror was by far the most entertaining movie we ever saw on one of these. The first two segments are just absolute nonstop hilarity, and the fact they're edited down from full movies adds to the fun since it removes most of the boring exposition and just gives us all the highlights from three pieces of crap. (One of my friends was so obsessed with this movie he ordered VHS copies of "Scream Your Head Off" and "Death Wish Club" off of ebay - they were nowhere near as entertaining in full-length.)

[Show spoiler]
Some of the horrendous edits/transitions imposed by shortening it added to the humor, and there's so much bizarre stuff in those three movies that it almost never gets boring. The first segment in particular is great for this. I seem to remember a horrible jump cut from someone getting hit with an axe straight to the middle of a note from some old ladies in a church choir.

These were the segments, I think (I haven't seen it in 4 or 5 years):

1) John Phillip Law gets brainwashed into helping some sinister lady and her oafish german assistant with their bodypart harvesting operation. There are numerous scenes of screaming naked women on tables being walked towards with saws and then pans over collections of severed limbs on the walls. Somehow John Phillip Law slipping women roofies at a bar figures into this. There are tons of awesomely bad gore effects, the soundtrack is taken straight from public domain 40s horror movies, and it's hilarious the whole way through.

2) A couple gets sucked into a club that likes to play exotic variants of russian roulette. There's one scene with a ridiculous claymation mosquito that flies off into public and stings some random extra whose face then explodes in a gory mess. There's a talking electrocution computer that toasts a jimi hendrix lookalike. It's good.

3) This one is a bit slowmoving compared to the first two but does feature nazis machinegunning musicians at dinner in a flashback scene, a giant stop-motion demon, and climaxes with the heroine performing open-heart surgery on the villain while he's awake (he's an immortal servant of satan that can only be stopped by removing his heart and putting it in a box, or something).

And then the wrap segments feature the above-linked song being played over and over while god and satan discuss who's going to get what soul from whichever segment we were just shown (it doesn't fit AT ALL).

Seriously, if you like cheesy/bad horror flicks, you are almost guaranteed to love this. I watched my garbage pan and scan DVD (on which it was so compressed that it fit three other movies on the same disc) a good 8 times with various friends, it's one of the most-watched movies in my collection. I'd rank it even higher than sleepaway camp 1/2 and manos the hands of fate for bad movie party fodder. I love this movie and try to make everyone I know who could possibly find it funny watch it. I really do love this movie and am surprised it's so obscure (well, I mean, compared to the likes of The Room or Robot Monster or whatever) when it's so damn funny.

I'll buy this release for sure. I appreciate that they're trying to put together extras for it, but even a barebones release with a half-decent transfer would be on my buy list. I really can't recommend this highly enough if you like bad movies and won't get offended by some of the incredibly offensive content in the first segment (a fair amount of gore, nudity, and one rape scene, not too graphic but certainly not discreet).

Sounds awesome. I'm going to take a peek at this

[grape_jelly]

Originally Posted by mar3o

"Everybody's got something to do - everybody but you!"

YES!

So excited for this. So many great releases on the 8th this month. I'm gonna be broke before I even get my next check! Oh well...

[kinkyqueen]

I'm getting this. Like the flick and just look at that artwork:

http://i.imgur.com/hSE2qxq.jpg

[Member-222782]

There's a Vinegar Syndrome promo trailer on youtube for this. I saw this movie when it was released but I don't remember musical numbers. This looks like a cross between Dr. Terror's House of Horrors and The Monster Club. Preordered

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by kinkyqueen

I'm getting this. Like the flick and just look at that artwork:

http://i.imgur.com/hSE2qxq.jpg

Always loved that poster. Great artwork.

Originally Posted by cine74

There's a Vinegar Syndrome promo trailer on youtube for this. I saw this movie when it was released but I don't remember musical numbers. This looks like a cross between Dr. Terror's House of Horrors and The Monster Club. Preordered

The music number is spread throughout the film, in-between the different stories. It's the same song played over and over again at each break, though you never hear the full song all at once - just a different segment at each break.