Night Train Murders
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Movie Reviews of Night Train Murders
Movie Review: Unfair comparison
Summary: 4 Stars
Firstly this film does copy the Last House on the Left but to be fair Last House is a remake of an earlier Ingrid Bergmann film called the virgin spring and not in itself an original. I think this film is a far more powerful animal. The direction is excellent and the cinemaphotography really captures how alone on a busy train you can be. The scene in the carriage is disturbing and very uncomfortable to watch and in my opinion delivers. The performance of Macha Meril is particularly sleazy and reinforces the class issues the film is dealing with. The two young thugs are reprehensible in their actions but it is the middle class woman who is calling the shots and directing them in their heinous acts. Good performances all round excellent transfer and letterbox. Extras round out the disc with a good interview with Aldo Lado. If I had a complaint I would have preferred the original Italian language. This would have enhanced the feeling of the film as dubbed tracks rarely work. One of the better Euro exploiters give it a spin.Movie Review: "Hey, we'll just cut her a little."
Summary: 4 Stars
If Bunuel had ever made a "genre film" it would have been a lot like this.
I rented this thinking it was going to be just another slasher movie, but imagine my surprise when a few minutes into the movie I realized that the director, Aldo Lado, actually had some talent and shot a film that was not only engaging, but quite beautiful.
I won't ruin the movie by giving away a bunch of spoilers but lets just say two girls on the way home for Christmas have a bad (to say the least) encounter with two petty thieves who are unknowningly being manipulated by a rich (and ultra-seductive) female passenger played by Macha Meril, who was in Bunuel's erotic masterpiece BELLE DE JOUR.
If you're a gorehound looking for wall to wall guts (or nudity) then you'll be disappointed, but if you want to see an intelligently made film about the darker side of human nature then check it out. Make sure you watch the interview with director Lado, very interesting.
Movie Review: Superior to Last House on the Left
Summary: 4 Stars
I know this movie was inspired by the Last House on the Left, but there is really no comparison. This is the far better movie. Macha Meril plays a fantastic villian. The acting here is excellent, where in Last House, it was pretty bad all throughout the first half of the movie. The director sets a good tone of appropriate creepiness. The train setting is fantastic, because it gives you a feeling of claustrophobia, there is just no place to go! There is a theme of the "rich taking advantage of the poor to serve their evil needs and getting away with it", and it makes things even more interesting. I think this movie worked better than Last House because it builds a feeling of dread, without the absurd attempts at "comic relief". The revenge aspect wasn't quite as satisfying, but it is more realistic.Movie Review: Gripping, unsettling little thriller
Summary: 4 Stars
Despite a very disjointed start (in very poor quality - almost looks 16mm) the story comes together and all hell is let loose. Well acted, often edge of your seat situations - some of which are pretty disturbing, the film moves along at a brisk pace - perhaps too brisk as the clues leading up to the climactic confrontation are too rushed and justice dealt out too swiftly - though that's the only real fault I can find in an otherwise great film.
Transfer quality is rough at the start as I mentioned but soon becomes satisfactory if not pretty good maybe due to different film stocks used.
Movie Review: las thouse on left 2??
Summary: 4 Stars
Obviously inpsired by Last House, this is a cool Italian expoitation genre flick.
Quite disturbing, and more darker in tone believe it or not the Last hosue. Superb music too by none other than Ennio Morricone.
check it out if you like European genre films!