Terror Train 2

Terror Train 2

Year: 2022

Runtime: 88 mins

Language: English

Director: Philippe Gagnon

MysteryHorror

A year after a deadly spree claimed the lives of several college seniors on the notorious Terror Train, the few survivors are forced to board the same locomotive for a New Year’s Eve redemption ride. As the train hurtles forward, an even more sinister force emerges, and the terrified passengers must battle once again to stay alive.

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On a university fraternity’s New Year’s Eve party, a reluctant Alana Maxwell, Robyn Alomar is pressured into a prank: she lures the awkward, virginal Kenny Hampson into a bedroom with the promise of sex. Instead, he discovers a corpse stolen from the medical school in the bed. Traumatized, Kenny is committed to a psychiatric hospital.

Three years later, attendees of the same fraternities and sororities gather for a New Year’s Eve costume party aboard a train. Alana attends with her best friend Mitchy, [Emma Elle Paterson], her boyfriend Mo, Ed, prank ringleader Doc, and Jackson, along with a magician [Tim Rozon] as The Magician and his female assistant Ess Hödlmoser who goes by XNDR. Ed is murdered before boarding, and the killer dons his Groucho Marx mask to move among the students unnoticed. As the train travels into the wilderness, he continues his killings: Jackson is murdered in the sleeper bathroom, and when conductor Carne, Darragh Mondoux investigates, the killer conceals the body and dons Jackson’s lizard costume, fooling brakeman Charlie. Mitchy is killed in her compartment, Mo is found dead during a magic show, and two crew members are later discovered murdered. Carne sequesters the students while porters uncover yet another corpse. Pulling the emergency brake throws everyone off balance, and the porters escort the students off, many thinking it is another of Doc’s stunts.

Alana suspects Kenny and recalls visiting him at the hospital, learning of his disturbed state. Doc seals himself in a sleeper car but is decapitated, and Alana mistakes the magician for Kenny.

Pursued through the train, she discovers the magician dead and finds Kenny, dressed in Charlie’s uniform, revealing that he has been posing in drag as the magician’s female assistant.

Alana apologizes for the original prank, but Kenny refuses to forgive her and forces her to kiss him. The kiss triggers a traumatic relapse, leaving him vulnerable. Carne arrives and beats Kenny with a shovel, causing him to fall from the train into an icy river as it speeds away.

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