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Night Train Murders (1975) poster

1975 · thriller · revenge · video-nasty

Night Train Murders

Directed by Aldo Lado1h 34m1975

Two young women, Margaret and Lisa, are set to take the overnight train from Munich in Germany to stay with Lisa's parents in Italy for Christmas. Unfortunately a pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize the pair.

Our read: Night Train Murders (1975) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded thriller · revenge · video-nasty entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.

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Heavy, steady, extreme thriller / revenge, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.

ElsewhereIMDb6.14kTMDB6.1114
  • heavy
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
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Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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“You want brutal Italian 70s horror of two women terrorized on a night train.”

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