SPLATTERVILLE ~ my favorite year

Train (2008)

Plot: A bunch of American college wrestlers are on tour in Eastern Europe. After the local comp the team sneak out for a booze up at a strip joint/nightclub. Coming back they they find the coach at the station pissed off, they have missed the train (the rest of the team have left and he has had to wait for them).

Looking to get to Odessa & trying to find someone who speaks English a seemingly kindly woman tells them her train is bound for the Ukraine. (What a nice lady)

The girls Alex (Thora Birch) & Claire (Gloria Votsis) are creeped out by the scruffy leching porters, the guys just want to carry on boozing Alex's boyfriend Todd (Derek Magyar),
Todd (Kavan Reece) and coaches assistant Willy (Gideon Emery). Coach Harris (Todd Jensen) goes off to bone the woman who helped him but gets more than he hoped for.

Nothing suspicious here

The train is a front for illegal underground operations and the youngsters have become unwitting donors for illegal operations. The back carriage of the train is used to cage, slice, dice and remove organs. A huge Russian butcher and a train full of potential patients it isn't going to be easy to escape.

Is it good: Yes, I bought this film simply because Thora Birch has great tits, I didn't really have much hope for anything else but it worked out well. The opening seen of a body being skinned live is horrific. The gore level is high, it takes a lot to make me cringe but anything with eyes, gets me and knifes in a guys junk, leave it out, horrible.

Where Kebab meat comes from.

The film is a bit of a Hostel rip off, young travelers are tricked into putting themselves in the hands of psychos, the torture is seemingly unnecessary if they are just after body parts but the butchers seem to get pleasure from their job.

The acting is ok Thora carries the film well and the others put up a good performance.

The bad dudes are menacing and believable, especially the conductor and the 2 creepy porters.

Well hello Miss Birch

Turdige: The last half an hour it starts go on a bit and goes a little too far in the this is just daft stakes. The Americans seem the only ones on the train who are not in on it so where do the patiants organs come from as they shouldn't have been there. The end move was ridiculously telegraphed.

Not as hardcore and effective as say Wolf Creek (2005) but then not many films are.

10 years ago Thora Birch was the next big thing starring in American Beauty (1999) The Hole (2001) Ghost World (2001) she must be a bit pissed of seeing Scarlett Johansson in Avengers (2012) and the jobs Keira Knightley gets.

Overall: An enjoyable (If you say that about torture porn flicks) film well worth the entrance fee.