Horror Express

Horror Express, also known as Pnico en el Transiberiano Panic on the TransSiberian Express, is a 1972 SpanishBritish horror film directed by Eugenio Martn and starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto de Mendoza and Telly Savalas. It was produced by Bernard Gordon and written by Arnaud dUsseau and Julian Zimet credited as Julian Halevy. The film is based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell.

The following report to the Royal Geological Society by the undersigned Alexander Saxton is a true and faithful account of the events that befell the societys expedition in Manchuria. As the leader of the expedition, I must accept the responsibility for its ending in disaster. But I will leave, to the judgment of the honorable members, the decision as to where the blame for the catastrophe lies.In 1906, Saxton Christopher Lee, a renowned British anthropologist, is returning to Europe by the TransSiberian Express from China to Moscow. With him is a crate containing the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature that he discovered in a cave in Manchuria. He hopes it is a missing link in human evolution. Doctor Wells Peter Cushing, Saxtons friendly rival and Royal Society colleague, is also on board but travelling separately. Before the train departs Shanghai, a thief is found dead on the platform. His eyes are completely white without irises or pupils, and a bystander initially mistakes him for a blind man. A monk named Father Pujardov Alberto de Mendoza, the spiritual advisor to a Polish Count and Countess who are also waiting to board the train, proclaims the contents of the crate to be evil. Saxton furiously dismisses this as superstition. Saxtons eagerness to keep his scientific find secret arouses the suspicion of Wells, who bribes a porter to investigate the crate. The porter is killed by the apelike creature within, which then escapes the crate by picking the lock. ........

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