Alicia I love this movie so much

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

paulclaassen After a brilliantly suspenseful first half, the film deteriorates into silliness. All the characters act stupidly, which is just not normal behavior, and the creatures are more comical than scary. (Great tension and atmosphere in the first half).

Tweetienator Nice little English horror flick: passengers and staff on a train in the middle of nowhere fight against a pack of blood and flesh craving Werewolves. Solid cast, a good production value refined by some gore. Solid movie of the B category.

Nigel P This is a terrific production. Constantly under-valued Joe is given guard duties on a train. Despite being told he gets on well with passengers, when he checks the tickets, he is met by the kind of casual ignorance and rudeness you would expect from the complaining, self-obsessed, terminally dissatisfied general public. The train driver is played by Sean Pertwee in little more than a cameo, and he is the first victim of the howling horrors 'out there' in the night that seemingly cause the train to halt in the middle of nowhere. That the miscreants appear to be werewolves is bad news for Pertwee, who has previous form with lycanthropes (1994's 'Dog Soldiers').Ed Speleers is excellent as Joe, whose wearisome tolerance of his increasingly dire situation is written in the wrinkles on his forehead. He clearly wants to be somewhere – anywhere – else, from the get-go, and our sympathies are with him. This is particularly apparent in his relationship with tea-trolley girl Ellen (Holly Weston), who – alongside the rest of the passengers – is constantly being charmed by the authoritative clever-clogs Adrian (Elliot Cowan), who always seems to do and say the right thing. For a while at least.Other passengers include a teen girl who uses accusations of sexual impropriety to get her own way, Duncan Preston as the elderly Ged whose patience is constantly wearing thing and an overweight man who is never quite aware of what is happening around him. These characters are believable and very well played. And they all have no truck with poor Joe. The courteous and polite Matthew is the exception, and Amit Shah's playing of him losing his composure and killing the first of the creatures we see is very powerful. Jenny, Ged's wife, is also very well played by Ania Marson.Visually, the were-beasts are sometimes very impressive and sometimes not so much. However, they thoroughly convince as virtually unstoppable, rampaging killers. In the darkness of the wilderness surrounding the stranded train, they are exceptional with glowing eyes and shaggy manes.As a whole, I had a great time watching this. It is a good, solidly made traditional werewolf/horror picture, beautifully directed by Paul Hyett. Some people may be irked that more wasn't revealed about why and how the pack exist undetected in the English countryside, but the lack of explanation doesn't bother me at all, especially when the results are this good.

pesic-1 I should have known it would turn out to be a lousy film when they killed off Sean Pertwee in act one, without giving him a single line of dialogue. How do you put the star of Dog Soldiers in a werewolf film and dispose of him like that? I have a theory: they didn't have the money to actually pay him to play a proper role and they just wanted his name for the DVD cover to try and sell it.That's pretty naughty, and unnecessary. Instead of tricking the audience they should have got someone to fix their stupid script. That would have worked better.You see, this film started well, and it really had promise. The cinematography was adequate. It gave the film a dreamlike, spooky feel, which I liked a lot. The lead character was likable. The set was pretty basic, but persuasive, and perfect for the plot. Then the monster appeared and seemed scary enough. There even came a nice twist: they actually kill the monster early in act two. That's pretty original. And no, it does not come back to life. It is really dead.But it is at this point that whoever wrote the script ran out of ideas, and bad, boring, and irritating clichés followed one after another. Also, the tone was shattered and the audience became confused as to where the film was going. As it turned out, it was not going anywhere. The third act confused us even more instead of wrapping things up in a satisfying way.There is some pointless and badly done character development, a lot of confusing actions undertaken by the protagonists, the introduction of new monsters, which didn't work well at all, the unbelievably irritating cliché whereby a bitten person transforms into a werewolf while everyone remains in denial about what's happening to that person even as it starts to growl and grow monster teeth... I was hoping the film would be intelligent enough to at least treat these clichés with irony. Alas, it did not happen. There is also a 'bad guy' who is as weak a character as all the others, and doesn't really do anything. And as for the protagonist, who everyone expects to undergo the obvious arc from a cowardly loser to a tough guy in control of his life... It doesn't really happen, and he ends up dead.I really thought this film would make up for the lack of budget with some intelligent and innovative plot twists. Unfortunately, it derailed early in act two and kept getting worse and worse until the very last scene. It boggles the mind, really, because any decent scriptwriter would have written a better script. I would have done it for less money than they paid Pertwee to show up in a single scene.