Train (2009)  TrainReviewed by The Foywonder   Starring Thora
Birch, Derek Magyar, Kavan Reece, Gloria Votsis, Todd Jensen,
Koyna Ruseva, Vladimir Vladimirov  Written & Directed by Gideon
Raff  Train was originally announced as a remake of the 1981
Jamie Lee Curtis slasher flick Terror Train. Dropping "terror"
from the title makes perfect sense; the movie has about as much
in common with the original as it does with the very concept of
terror, which is to say nothing.  Train is a vile film. It's
also frequently dull and insultingly dumb to boot. The horror
genre often gets a bad wrap and movies like this are why it gets
that bad wrap. This even gives torture porn a bad wrap. With the
Saw films or Hostel or this past summer's The Collector or even
notorious gorefests like Cannibal Holocaust you can at least
somewhere within them find some level of intrigue or suspense or
foreboding, characters you care about or villains you fear, at
the very least some sense of macabre fun or artistic merit that
at least attem