Horror Express (1972)
At the turn of the last century, a professor (Christopher Lee) is transporting his cargo in the form of the prehistoric remains of a creature from China to Moscow aboard the Trans-Siberian Express.
The British-Spanish co-production encapsulates the best of both worlds. Featuring the best of British Gothic horror and the Naschy-esq madness of Spanish monster movies, Horror Express is a classy example of early seventies horror.
The films production values are excellent, the train interiors are lushly sophisticated, and featuring some tasty gory effects, not to mention the cream of classic horror performers in Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Two stalwarts who are almost upstaged by a memorably OTT turn from Telly Savalas as a Cossack army Captain, not to mention the marvellous, scary creature terrorizing all on board. Then there's the tense direction and some genuinely funny lines - Cushing's "Monster? We're British you know" always makes me laugh.
A superior slice of seventies horror, Eugenio Martin's film is essential viewing.
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