Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, a bad 70’s horror monster and cheap production design; What more could you want?
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0:00 Content Warning & Intro
0:38 Story
5:20 Behind the Scenes
7:32 Everything Wrong
14:32 Conclusion
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Criticise this video all you want, my brain is now super smooth after watching this movie. Your insults just slide right off, nothing is retained. Where am I?
You need to cover Under Siege 2 next.
Cool outro theme tune
I knew Moff Tarkins Actor looked Familiar
Fun Fact: Spain, like Russia, uses a broad gauge of five feet. (Well five and change). Thus, using a 'spanish' locomotive as a stand in also makes sense, as the proportions of the locomotives and cars, should be roughly similar.
Love it!
Can you do the film runaway train next?
11:50 Back to the future 3 directors.
Right off the bat the trains are all Belgian/French and not Russian – not surprised as filming in Russia would’ve meant dealing with the Soviets
The RiffTrax take on this film is excellent as well, for those who enjoy listening to someone make jokes about a film while watching the film.
You should do Everything wrong with the trains in Super 8 (Baldwin S12 somehow pulls an 82 car train independently and possibly travelling above its top speed and the collision with a pickup truck causes the entire train to unrealistically derail like it's in Microsoft Train Simulator)
That ending song is an absolute banger. Also as someone else said, you should do Runaway Train from 1985 next, that's one of my favorite train movies because it is more about the characters.
I actually went and watched the movie first, and had a surprisingly good time. A lot of its goofiness is in how much its aged since 1972 as well as its initial cheapness, but the concept, the monster and how its used, and a lot of the horror cinematography still really held up. Absolutely wild that it was basically The Thing on The Orient Express a full 10 years before The Thing,
The script is absolutely ridiculous. However the actors and actresses that star in the film, including the amazing Telly Savalas, are some of the finest of that era!
The budget could have stretched to put red lights on the rear carriage rather than white ones.
If the plot of the horror movie and Thomas the Tank Engine could be combined, it would be a fantastic film.
You didn't count the lack of continuous brakes as an inaccuracy?
I just watched the movie, definitely very fun.
Is it just me or when the train leaves the station, is the sound effect wrong? To me it sounds like it's chugging way faster than it should be for how much it's moving, and it looks like the pistons aren't even really moving at first when the sound starts
After seeing the video about the Lone Ranger I am amazed to notice that with a pence budget and a large scale model they were able to shot more effective scenes in the seventies than a million dollar production in 2013. 😉
Please, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, do Metro Exodus or the Metro series video games in general. I love the games but the Aurora, seemingly a 4-8-8-4 tank engine with the firebox halfway up the boiler, and a cab design that would imply a structure similar to a camel-back, has always flummoxed me. That, plus the opening action sequence where an armored train ignores the notion of rails to do an aggressive sideswipe like that of two chariot racers has made me scream out at my screen "THAT IS NOT HOW TRAINS WORK!"
the one thing I will say about the uncoupling scene is that Russia used a bizarre setup where it was American style janey/buckeye couplers hard-mounted to the frame, with buffers for the draft gear. In theory you'd just have to lift the lever hard enough and they'd come open.
Saruman & Grand Moff Tarkin. 🤣🤣🤣
OMG! I'm dying here. I haven't laughed so hard in years. Thank you ToT!
Excellent work with the rest of the video.
Train siding ending at the end of a cliff is too funny, I love the movie as well, but I guess they had to do the overkill with the crash so we could be rest assured satnn/et was dead. And I always thought the full size engine was too big for a pre ww1 engine.