Monster of the Day #153

jeeze, took you long enough to get to Naschy.

Don’t want to give it away this early but is this an Amicus film with Peter Cushing and Chris Lee on a train in Siberia under attack on the inside from a monster on board and the outside from Telly Savalis (sp?) as a cossack?

If it’s the movie Gamera guessed at, I have heard of it and know the title, but no, have not ever seen it.

Horror Express, the movie with a little bit of everything! First tape I ever ran across without any sort of leader. No tracking space, no FBI warning, you put the tape in and the movie starts at once. I tried to rewind the tape three times before I figured this out. That’s the copy I still have of this little gem.

So is it ‘Horror Express’? I saw it probably about twenty years ago and liked it but still haven’t gotten around to picking it up on DVD yet. The Rasputin sorta monk with the glowing eyes was hard to forget.

And the best line was something Cushing said along the lines that neither him or Lee could be possessed by the alien because they were British I think. Could someone fill me in with the exact quote?

BTW: Welcome back Rock. Just got my home computer back a couple weeks ago after having it down for two months waiting for a defective video card to make it’s way back to the company and then the replacement to get back to me. Having to do all my computer stuff during slow times at work was annoying.

Man with No Face – Bear in mind this is, of course, personal preference, but I love Mario Bava’s Lisa and the Devil. That’s the full version, mind, and not the reportedly horrible House of Exorcism

Don’t get me wrong. I love Horror Express. I just think Lisa and the Devil edges it out.

That’s not Paul Naschy?! Whoa – he sure is doing a good job of channeling the dude.

Molasar?! Dude – I use The Keep in my lectures on horror as the primo example of how to bungle it and do everything wrong.

The other line I love from this film belongs to Savalas: “Bah, we’ve got lots of innocent monks.”

Anyone interested in seeing a really bad movie from the same two writers who penned Horror Express should check out the George Sanders flick, Psychomania. (Ken’s already seen it I’m quite sure.)