15 Awesome Horror Movies With Lower Critical Scores Than They Deserve

15. Terror Train

Rotten Tomatoes: 36% (Average Score: 4.88/10)

Terror Train, a 1980 Canadian slasher movie which is pretty much Halloween on a train, was unpopular with critics but has gained a cult following from horror fans and it's arguable that the fans were fairer on Terror Train.

Look, it cannot be denied that the majority of slasher cinema is pretty terrible. Even the ones which are more watchable are usually still full of flaws and 6/10 films at most but that doesn't mean every slasher film should be immediately dismissed by critics, which is what often seems to happen. Some of them aren't half-bad, like this one.

Terror Train is one of the better slasher films out there for sure. The train setting gives it a nice sense of claustrophobia, it provides plenty of gleeful thrills and the villain changing disguises between each killing makes this tenser than most in the subgenre, so this more than stands out in the wave of rip-offs that Halloween inspired.