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Like he looks like he's just a kid Oh, yeah, the 90s TV specials make like a plane Disappear that big hangar and you do the magic on the TV You touch the TV with me. Yeah. Yeah, and it would always work. Yeah, it's like whoa Just blow your mind prom night was directed by Paul Lynch Jamie Lee Curtis stars in it Leslie Nielsen is in it and Jeff win-caught is in it too terror train the plot Frat kids celebrating New Year's Eve. They're all talking about we got to get Kenny laid Yeah, they lead him up to this kind of weird room in this house all these lights flashing and stuff lead Kenny to the Bedroom and there's a corpse in there. Yeah, it's stolen from med school Kenny flips out Drapes and all rolling around three years later the same med students are having another New Year's Eve party this time They've rented a whole damn train and it's a costume party Kenny is no longer part of the group He's actually had like a mental breakdown Thanks to this prank of theirs one prankster type guy this groucho marks mask As you're getting on the train you see that he is now no longer alive He's like someone else wearing that mask gets on the train in his place All these kids started getting killed off on the train And the killer is actually like changing his costume as he's killing these kids prom night starts off with a bunch of kids in This abandoned building and they're they're playing hide-and-go-seek kind of sadistic too on something like killing version One girl's like And so they kind of push Robin up onto this ledge By this window and she ends up falling out of the window onto this huge pane of glass and She dies they all make a pact that date to not say anything to keep their mouths shut You do see a shadow of somebody that witnessed the whole thing. They just leave yeah, and they just leave they They don't even try to help anything like don't even touch her to try to wake her up to see if she actually is It fast-forward six years later, and they're all grown up now, and they're in high school one by one They keep getting phone calls by somebody to delete changing his voice. Yeah New Year's evil It's the anniversary of Robin's death, and it's also prom night at the school and so While they're at the school all the kids they start getting killed off one by one by a mysterious stranger in a Belliclava case so which movie is better? They sound very similar just by quickly running down the plot So we're gonna break down all the different points of the movies and see which one comes out on top terror train The plot in general is kind of the same as prom night It's kind of more of a revenge tale and terror train you do know who the killer is You pretty much figure and everyone else on the train figures to that it is Kenny Who is Kenny because it's a costume party. Yeah, where is Kenny in all these costumes? Yeah, you could be anywhere Yeah, there is a little bit of a twist is when you find out who Kenny is like oh That was him all along right there, you know for a prom night The plot is similar But nothing happened to the killer per se out for revenge on somebody else's part And you don't know who it is right whereas in terror train you do Prom nights more of a mystery in terror trains more of just a straight-on slasher So the characters in terror train I believe that they are a lot more memorable than in prom night They really have this kind of close-knit feel you gonna really get the idea that they are truly friends And they've all been going to school together for years and they're a lot more believable Right, yeah for their part for their age group. Yeah, now you believe that these are college students in prom night It's kind of the opposite. I don't believe for a minute that any of these kids are in high school They're kind of boring. There's not a lot to them the acting now in terror train is pretty damn good There's not one performance, and I'm like, ah I don't believe that guy or that guy sucks. I believe everybody. They're all very good one standout character the conductor Yeah, he's really good. He's really good in this. Oh my god He's always finding all the dead bodies his poor conductor. Oh, no the acting for prom night is Kind of subpar. It's not shitty, but it's also not great besides Lizzie Nielsen. Yeah, you barely even has any lines I don't like give that guy some dialogue or like good dialogue at least he's all lame when he's dancing The setting for terror train is great You know, it's a train at night and when it shows those night shots of the train taken off from the station and it's foggy out And you can see all steam from the train and then on the train itself is neat because each car almost has a different look its own theme Right very claustrophobic because you're on a train and there's a killer on the loose Where are you gonna go exactly anywhere if you were to jump off the train and survive You'd eventually freeze to death because it's freezing out there. Yeah for prom night. The setting is Pretty basic most of it takes place at the school. There's not much special about it really school Yes, it's just a school, but there's a lot of disco Besides the disco dance, that's the most colorful vibrant part of the movie. That's right and Jamie Lee Curtis man She fucking tears up the dance floor too. She's got some good kicks Yeah, yeah, they obviously spent a lot of time working out that sequence. That's right So the kills for territory and actually they're not really all that great There's not many of them and they're not all that gory, which is fine You know, you know, it doesn't need to be a big gore fest You more see the aftermath David Copperfield in that box and that trick He's his own trick all with all those knives Jamie Lee Curtis his boyfriend. He's just suddenly just dead. Yeah, just sitting there and he just suddenly you just did Yeah, when they're watching a show yeah kills in prom night are actually far better Yeah, and terror train the wicked head chop at the end there. Yeah, and then it's all upright too on the plat Yeah, and it looks great because it's really his head right exactly the next category is the killer himself Terror trained it's the killer is great And you find out the Kenny was actually the magician's assistant Yeah, like a woman at the Kenny is a woman now All right, or at least dressed as a woman or pretty cool or posing as one which is neat and when you see him You know it takes off the wig and stuff He looks creepy and the fact that the killer actually dons different masks throughout the movie is neat You know first the groucho marks mask and then he's in that lizard suit Yeah, and that old man mask, you know for prom night the killer is Kind of shitty in this It's just the girl's brother. Yeah, and he's just wearing like a bella clava Yeah, there's not much more to say really which leads us to the climax of the movie so terror train has a great climax that thing is actually kind of like a double climax and The fight to the Jamie Lee Curtis has with the killer is great I love it like when she's in that kind of cage You think the killer is dead, but he's not and he's like outside the train because you kind of you thought that he fell off or whatever And then you see him like through the window He's gonna like crawling on the side of the train and there's another kind of fight at the end So it's actually like a double climax which is neat. It's great. I love it. Yeah It's really good in prom night. There is a pretty good fight scene at the end like on the disco floor there It's not as poignant as terror train. It's not as claustrophobic Yeah, it's more open and you don't really get a feeling of any right watching it It's just it's happening and but that's about all yeah the terror train climax more suspenseful exactly Yeah, and our last category is Jamie Lee Curtis herself as the final girl or Main character which movie is she better in yeah, I really liked her in terror train I think that her character is a bit more thought-out and well-developed the relationship her character has with the other Characters is a bit more fleshed out in prom night. It's a little more one-dimensional, right? Yeah, she does have that feud with the other girl over the boyfriend the movie itself overall Doesn't really play into Jamie Lee Curtis's skills. Yeah, as well as it could besides the disco dance besides the disco dance Yeah, she's pretty awesome. So the best Canadian slasher starring Jamie Lee Curtis that came out in 1980 is Terror train. Yes. It is a superior movie. I think overall, you know if it wasn't for the disco dance and the Decapitation at the end of prom night. I think the movie would be pretty fucking unmemorable. You know, yeah Yeah, there's not a whole lot. I mean the kills are good But the movie can't stand just on the kills right there's has to be a lot more to it And yeah prom night's pretty basic. It's pretty bare bones Yeah, if you need a good horror movie to watch on Canada day, and you need to choose just one well watch terror train Yeah, exactly. You won't be disappointed. Fuck you're gonna want to drink just like they do in the trains everything That's another aspect about terror training. You're kind of having fun watching them have fun. Yeah, exactly I keep thinking who's gonna clean all this up all these guys are making a big mess and all this puke Confetti and booze and glasses like that conductor guy. Yeah. Oh my god As usual the way it just ends up in July we just tend to cover a whole bunch of Canadian movies Yeah, we start with July 1st on Canada Day and we roll throughout the month And so stay tuned next week for another Canadian themed episode damn straight and until then Keep drinking hard Canadian style