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Jeff Conaway, Kevin McCarthy, Judie Aronson, John Carl Buechler, and David Naughton in The Sleeping Car (1990)

Review by Stevieboy666

The Sleeping Car

5/10

"A hair raising trip to terror" boasts the VHS. Sadly it isn't

Mature student Jason (David Naughton) rents an old train carriage that has been converted for accommodation, only it is haunted by its former owner, The Mister. The start of the film takes place 10 years previously, The Mister is an engineer onboard a train that crashes with another train because one of his colleagues is busy having sex and the explosive accident is a result. "I like to joke" says Jason and indeed he does - to the point where it becomes a little tiresome. Naughton's character is very similar to the one he played in "An American Werewolf in London", his one liners, he meets a girl, falls in love, etc. The film also has a dream within a dream sequence, something else that was done far better in that classic werewolf movie. A couple of men are killed by the sofa in the sleeping car, these deaths are quite good though there is not much in the way of gore. Could have done with a higher body count too. The are two welcome sex scenes featuring topless females. The first half of the plot is quite slow, the finale is alright but too little too late to save this from mediocrity. I used to a have a VHS poster for this back in the day, a classic case of great artwork, average movie. Although released in 1990 it is very much an '80's horror movie and that's no bad thing.
  • Stevieboy666
  • Jul 28, 2023

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