Review – Horror Express

This shares some plot elements with The Thing and some actors with classic Hammer productions, but that’s as close as this gets to being good. Christopher Lee plays a scientist who digs up an ancient, semi-human “fossil” (looks more like a partially mummified corpse) and crates it up for shipment to England. Unfortunately, thanks to some meddling from a rival scientist (Peter Cushing), in a baggage car along the Trans-Siberian Railway the thing wakes up and goes on a rampage. Turns out it’s actually an alien that can move from body to body, leaving a trail of blank-eyed, brain-absorbed corpses in its wake. Though it occasionally manages to border on spooky, for the most part it wears out its welcome long before it departs. Mildly amusing