Wait, wait, wait, there's another film based on John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?" I guess so, because Eugenio Martín's Horror Express hit me like a fun blast of cheesy pulp. The idea of setting the Thing story on a train in the wilderness was a stroke of brilliance as was the casting of both Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. The cinematography was a bit hard to make out at different points, but I'm willing to give the film itself the benefit of the doubt since I was watching a low-quality public domain copy. The idea that drops of eye blood contains still-images of the last things an organism saw before dying was so absurd that I actually love it. That's the kind of psuedo-scientific nonsense that makes me love these kinds of movies. But perhaps my favorite part of the whole damn film was the Cossack officer who enters the film about 2/3rds of the way through and dominates every single scene he appears in. It's almost like the villain from a different horror movie jumped reels into this one.
6/10
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