10 Greatest 'I'm Dead And I Know It' Moments In Slasher Horror Movies

8. Jackson - Terror Train

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Roger Spottiswoode's Terror Train is very much a prime example of the slasher boom ushered in by John Carpenter's Halloween in 1978.

Released just two years after Carpenter's iconic offering, Terror Train features Jamie Lee Curtis heading up a cast of pretty young things who find themselves targeted by a mysterious masked killer. Oh, and said targeting happens when these college kids are celebrating New Year's Eve by partying on a train.

Having been locked up in a psychiatric hospital three years prior after a prank was played on him, the killer here ends up being Kenny Hampson.

But not only does Kenny conceal his identity throughout this path of bloody murder, he changes his mask several times in order to take advantage of the fancy dress setting that he finds himself in.

The first time we properly see Kenny in action, it's Anthony Sherwood's Jackson who ends up offed. With the lizard mask-adorned Jackson believing that he's drunkenly joking around with one of his frat buddies who happens to be dressed like Groucho Marx, it's only once the mask is raised that Sherwood's character realises what's going on.

He then immediately gets his head smashed into a bathroom mirror.

 
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