The story then follows the four passengers and the tests they must face aboard the 'Arkangel,' a demonic train on a one-way trip to Hell. What follows is the script, starting with its own prologue of a girl in Chelmsk finding an old board game in the attic called 'Hell Train.' The game depicts a train starting off in her small town which travels from stops with four passengers on a journey through their sins. The movie must showcase the studios actors, notably Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, must have the requisite amount of horror, gore, and tantalizingly revealed young women, and must be finished in a week. As the 'Arkangel' races through the war-torn countryside, they must find out: What is in the casket that everyone is so afraid of? What is the tragic secret of the veiled Red Countess who travels with them? Why is their fellow passenger the army brigadier so feared by his own men? And what exactly is the devilish secret of the Arkangel itself?īizarre creatures, satanic rites, terrified passengers and the romance of travelling by train, all in a classically styled horror novel.Īn American screenwriter is up for a job at Hammer Studio in 1960s England and to prove his talent he must write a new script for the studio.

A grand epic produced at the studio's peak, which played like a cross between the Dracula and Frankenstein films and Dr Terror's House Of Horrors.įour passengers meet on a train journey through Eastern Europe during the First World War, and face a mystery that must be solved if they are to survive. Imagine there was a supernatural chiller that Hammer Films never made.

Four passengers meet on a train journey through Eastern Europe during the First World War, and face a mystery that must be solved if they are to survive.īizarre creatures, satanic rites, terrified passengers and the romance of travelling by train, all feature in this classically styled horror.

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