10 Horror Movies That Will Put You Off Travelling After Watching

6. Horror Express

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Few names in horror history have the level of appeal and fandom as Sir Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and when you put the two of these icons in a picture, it's guaranteed to be something special.

One such Lee and Cushing team-up came back in 1972 with Eugenio Martín's Horror Express.

Set in 1906, this tale plays out on the Trans-Siberian Express from Shanghai to Moscow, with Lee's Professor Saxton transporting a frozen creature he believes to be the missing link. For Cushing, he plays Dr. Wells, a friendly rival of Saxton's, and the pair become involved in a desperate fight to survive when Saxton's specimen defrosts and partakes in a murder spree mid-journey.

Given the year of its release, its setting and its main stars, there is very much a whiff of 'stiff upper lip' to Horror Express, but that doesn't spoil the charm and terror of Eugenio Martin's movie. And given how the Trans-Siberian Express is a trip that spans a mammoth 4,735 miles across six nights, the thought of being stuck on board with a prehistoric killing machine is the stuff of nightmares - regardless of the "We're British, you know?" approach on display.

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