Aaron Dane Shanley’s review published on Letterboxd:
💀 NUMBER TWENTY FIVE 💀
💀 TWO CHRISTOPHER LEE FILMS 💀
"Horror Express" (1972)
* dir: Eugenio Martin
* Horror / Suspense / The Thing From The Orient Express
[ ★★★★ / ★★★★★ ]
- "But what if one of you is the monster?"
- "Monster? We're British, you know!"
"Horror Express" brilliantly mashes together two of my personal loves: trains, and Christopher Lee with a powerful 70s 'stache discovering an ancient humanoid missing-link snowbeast creature with glowing red eyes that internally boils people alive until they literally turn into smoothbrains while speeding through the frozen 1908 pre-war Manchurian countryside. Also: Rasputin is there for some reason, and Telly Savalas eventually shows up looking like Hugh Hefner with a cavalry sabre.
It's just like "The Polar Express", except not nearly as existentially terrifying.
