Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

azathothpwiggins HORROR EXPRESS stars Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as rival scientists, Dr. Wells (Cushing) and Sir Alexander Saxton. When Saxton uncovers a frozen specimen in China, he must transport it back to England via train. Unfortunately, said specimen is far more than just some fossil! Apparent supernatural mayhem and death ensue. Cushing and Lee are at their best, playing off each other like the twin horror icons they are! The story-line is intriguing and quite original, providing an atmosphere of creeping dread to go along w/ its beastie! EXTRA POINTS: For the Rasputin-like Father Pujardov (Alberto del Mendoza- A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN), who adds a heavy dose of hyper-religious blather and outright madness to the proceedings. Also, Telly Savalas (LISA AND THE DEVIL) makes a perfectly intimidating Cossack! A unique and very influential horror film...

crystallogic This is a truly fantastic production, with a priceless cast, a great setting, and a creepy concept. If you love 70s cult horror, this simply has to be in your collection.The alien creature from the ancient past plot will be familiar to some. It reminds me of some of the 1970s Doctor Who stories, or Quatermass and the Pit, but also prefigures Carpenter's The Thing (though not, of course, the original 1930s literary source). I know a lot of people love movies set on trains, and while I think this was all done with modesl and such, the recreation of the Trans-siberian express and the isolated seting of a bunch of people on a moving train trying to cope with a desperate, mountingly horrific situation is very well depicted here.And the cast here is remarkable. Even though they are sort of rivals in the film, Christopher lee and Peter Cushing actually get to work alongside each other for a change. They both get lines and it seems like they're both having a great time. Props to Alberto de mendoza for his over-the-top, creepy monk performance. Also, Telly Savalas shows up for a few minutes to kick arse. I think that must have been in his contracts of the early 70s: "show up for a few minutes and kick arse". Must have been a busy guy.The alien killer threat is quietly menacing, and when it's finally able to speak with its fellow passengers, it's calm and almost amicable approach is almost alluring. There are a couple of silly unscientific ideas at work, but I don't even really think they're worth mentioning. This is just such a fun, tense, first-rate Euro-horror production that it seems churlish to nitpick about anything. Oh, and the music is great! It's full of reverbed, rocking guitars but also manages to be really eerie in parts. They don't make scores like this anymore, and that's a pity!

christopher-underwood Much loved, though I know it is, I've always had something of a problem with this film. Neither do I share many peoples love of Psychomania. Both are from the pen of Arnaud d'Usseau and I feel that it is in the area of the script that I have difficulty. Both, I feel, suffer from a slightly hokey Englishness. There are positives and I had forgotten just how effective the white and red eyes are. Apparently these caused problems in that whilst the actors had the lenses in they could see nothing! Still, they are very good and the effects generally are more gory than I remember (maybe its the wonderful new print). Of course, another factor is that I seem to be alone in finding many of Christopher Lee's performances stiff and monotonous. Here his tendency towards pomposity also seems to be allowed free reign and whilst Cushing works gallantly and realistically, I couldn't say the same for Lee. Alberto de Mendoza is great as a Rasputin style priest - keen to follow his leader, even if the devil himself. Helga Line is as serene as ever and Telly Savalas does a well over the top drunken Cossack. Too many shots of a toy train in the snow but the interiors are rather fine and though there are obvious limitations with a set confined to a train, director Eugenio Martin just about keeps things going.

Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki Clever horror/ thriller/ monster movie, about a demonic yeti-type of creature, buried in subarctic tundra for millennia, being transported via railway, accidentally thawing out, and wreaking havoc on board the train, barrelling through the frozen Russian Arctic.Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are both on the same side here, working together to stop this creature, whose eyes absorb what its victims have seen, as it travels from one victim to another, possibly revealing how it can be defeated.Film effectively captures the claustrophobic look and feel of the confines of the train, where the majority of its plot occurs, and its trio of leads (Lee, Cushing, and Telly Savalas) all do well, and the plot is well written, but, as overly technical as this sounds, the dull, flat lighting in most scenes make this look like a photographed stageplay. Still recommended, though.