This is one of the scariest movies you will ever see. If it does not scary you no movie will. This movie has a great story line. It also has great acting. There are a lot monsters in it.

This is a truly fantastic production, with a priceless cast, a great setting, and a creepy concept. If you love 70s cult horror, this simply has to be in your collection.The alien creature from the ancient past plot will be familiar to some. It reminds me of some of the 1970s Doctor Who stories, or Quatermass and the Pit, but also prefigures Carpenter's The Thing (though not, of course, the original 1930s literary source). I know a lot of people love movies set on trains, and while I think this was all done with modesl and such, the recreation of the Trans-siberian express and the isolated seting of a bunch of people on a moving train trying to cope with a desperate, mountingly horrific situation is very well depicted here.And the cast here is remarkable. Even though they are sort of rivals in the film, Christopher lee and Peter Cushing actually get to work alongside each other for a change. They both get lines and it seems like they're both having a great time. Props to Alberto de mendoza for his over-the-top, creepy monk performance. Also, Telly Savalas shows up for a few minutes to kick arse. I think that must have been in his contracts of the early 70s: "show up for a few minutes and kick arse". Must have been a busy guy.The alien killer threat is quietly menacing, and when it's finally able to speak with its fellow passengers, it's calm and almost amicable approach is almost alluring. There are a couple of silly unscientific ideas at work, but I don't even really think they're worth mentioning. This is just such a fun, tense, first-rate Euro-horror production that it seems churlish to nitpick about anything. Oh, and the music is great! It's full of reverbed, rocking guitars but also manages to be really eerie in parts. They don't make scores like this anymore, and that's a pity!

This is great 70s horror! Feels like a Hammer film. Horror with a little humor done perfectly.

When a professor ships a fossil of a prehistoric ape-man back to the UK from China, the train-ride back becomes the hunting ground for the reawakened creature as he targets the passengers onboard, forcing a few survivors to stop the creature before it kills them all.For the most part this one was a decent mid-70s Eurohorror. One of the more enjoyable elements here comes from the rather fun amount of confrontations with the creature, as this one manages to provide that facet quite nicely throughout here. There's some fine scenes in the first half as there's the rather enjoyable excavation scene getting the creature out of the ice and loaded onto the train while it's escape from containment is quite creepy as well with the inhuman hand reaching out to get the lock replaced and then confronting the guard trying to stop it. The fact that it's loose and constantly on the prowl makes other really fun encounters as the patrolling guards encountering it in the kids' room or the creature getting the drop on the thief in the luggage compartment where they first encounter the creature makes for some rather fun times here. When the second half features the idea of the supposedly-dead creature still haunting the train this one becomes even more fun with the fever-pitch suspense driving idea of the creature's true whereabouts and identity this has quite a lot more to really like with their search for the hiding place on-board with the search being completely unaware of the shape-shifting abilities and using the fact that this one features the creature hiding in plain sight going for some pretty ingenious stalking scenes with the creature going after those who it thinks knows it's true identity resulting in plenty of fine stalking sequences on the train. With the body- hopping allowing for some rather enjoyable sequences bringing out the rather fun and exciting final half where they get the outside officers resulting in the wild massacre of the staff and the big final resolution where they finally manage to stop the creature once and for all through a rather ingenious method here, it provides a rather enjoyable finish to this one. Alongside the great creature design and the high body-count, this one really gets a lot to like here even though there's a few flaws on display. The film's biggest flaw is the fact that it commit the cardinal sin that these should never do, kill off the creature in the first half so it's not visible for the second half, and those scenes sitting around the train simply waiting around for a plan of action are dreadfully dull. Likewise, the fact that it pulls the trump-card of it's powers at the very end here is somewhat confusing as there's almost no reason for it to accomplish this at this point in the film and it really could've used some work in that area describing it's powers and motivation. It's still somewhat fun, but these flaws here do drag this down.Rated PG: Violence and Language.