During a hazing, a fraternity of pre-med students has a particularly sinister prank in store for one their more timid pledges. But the plank goes wrong and 3 years later, a masked killer targets them as they are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.
1959
3 October 1956, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
16 September 1956, Metuchen, New Jersey, USA
1926, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
July 2, 1961
13 June 1918, Foraker, Shidler, Oklahoma, USA
4 January 1959, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
22 November 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA
April 14, 2011
A run-of-the-mill slasher film whose central gimmick is setting its action on a train.August 13, 2007
Just a little more skillfully done than many of its contemporaries, and whatever esteem I have for it is largely nostalgic, but at least it tries to be different.June 24, 2006
Better than most of its kind.September 09, 2004
Just another slasher picture.January 01, 2012
Really darn great by slasher standards, and even kind of pretty good by the standards of decent, functional, God-fearing modes of cinema.January 09, 2004
Holds the tension in a bone-chilling manner.