The 70s horror classic returns like you ve never seen it before! Screen legends Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing star as rival turn-of-the-century anthropologists transporting a frozen missing link aboard the Trans-Siberian Express. But when the prehistoric creature thaws and escapes, it unleashes a brain-scarfing spree that turns its victims into the eye-bleeding undead. Can the crafty colleagues stop this two million year old monster, hordes of zombie passengers and a psychotic Cossack officer (Telly Savalas) before terror goes off the rails? Silvia Tortosa (WHEN THE SCREAMING STOPS) co-stars in this all-time fright favorite from director Eugenio Martín and the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriters of PSYCHOMANIA, now featuring explosive new Extras and a stunning HD transfer from vault elements recently unearthed in a Mongolian film depot!

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6019 in DVD
• Brand: MPI
• Released on: 2011-11-29
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Color, DVD, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Running time: 91 minutes

Most helpful customer reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
What an improvement!
By Shelby C. Rhodes
Just received my copy today. I won't go into the story; you can read the product description for that. I just want to comment on the terrific improvement of the picture quality over past releases.

I've owned at least a couple of public domain versions that were washed out, blurred, and grainy. This verion is crisp and clear, with vibrant color and a lot of clean up done. I won't say it's pervect. I saw a couple of spots of imperfection, but they were few and far between. This looked as good as any of the Hammer releases to me.

Very happy how this release turned out, especially given what had to be dated materials. Now if someone can just do something with Dr. Terror's House of Horrors.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
"Who Goes There?" ... on a train
By J. Callahan
A previous review was critical of the image quality, but I've never seen this film look better (I hope they also found a new print of Shock Waves in that Mongolian film vault). I like to see a few flaws in the film - reminders that I'm watching something made in 1972. The Spanish credits and use of its original title further enhanced the feeling of seeing this for the first time. The use of a 1973 Peter Cushing interview as the commentary track is a nice touch, as is the inclusion of three "bonus" trailers.

The film itself is great - in my opinion, far superior to any genre films Hammer/Tigon/Amicus produced in the 70's. An alien fossil thaws-out and infiltrates an isolated group of humans. Sound familiar?

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
The Blu Ray quality...a bit disappointing!
By tangerinewolf
Please note that this review is for the quality of this Blu Ray disc only. The movie itself is definately 5 stars! I am disappointed with this Blu Ray release. It appears that there has been little or no restoration to the so-called newly found print from Mongolia of all places. Sure, the picture quality itself is up to Blu Ray standards as compared with the DVD (also included in this package). But as you probably know, there have been several "public domain" releases and one official release (now out-of-print) from Image Entertainment. Well, the dots and print scratches are still here on this Blu Ray release! In some cases, depending which DVD release you compare it with, there is a slight reduction in these imperfections, but I guess I'm spoiled by other Blu Ray releases that have previously only been available as poor quality "public domain" material DVDs.

Here is an example: If you're a fan of these classic, yet underated or obscure horror flicks, then you may be familar with Roger Corman's "The Terror" starring Boris Karloff and a very young Jack Nicholson (1963). There have been at least a dozen DVD releases of this film, most of fairly poor quality, scratches, washed out color, etc. And I owned all of them! But earlier this year, Film Crest, Inc. released it on Blu Ray, Digitally Remastered HD Restoration, and the quality is breath-taking!! Hardly a speck or scratch. There is even a side by side restoration comparision in the menu.

Sadly, this is not the case with "The Horror Express." But here it is, a Blu Ray that falls short in the restoration department. Still, I suppose it is worth owning for its 1080p resolution, but I guess (to use the title of a more recent Jack Nicholson film) this is As Good As It (is going to) Get(s).