7 Movies That Scared You Away From Ever Taking Public Transport Again

6. Train - Runaway Train (1985)

Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, Runaway Train arguably set the bar for the intensity levels of the bus-bomb thriller Speed that arrived almost a decade after it. Unbearably tense and stuffed with superb action sequences, the movie is a classic piece of thriller cinema. Fast-paced and nail-bitingly suspenseful for its entire duration, Runaway Train stars Jon Voight and Eric Roberts as two escaped prisoners who hop on a train to supposed freedom, only to discover that the driver has suffered a heart attack. As the train rapidly approaches its doom, the two convicts scramble to find a way to survive in an action thriller with a screenplay of rare intelligence. The film earned three Oscar nods, with the nomination for Best Film Editing by Henry Richardson reflecting the superb way in which Runaway Train depicted legitimate excitement and terror about a train coming to the end of the tracks. Seeing this train fly through the Alaskan snow and ice at an unstoppable speed is enough to make you think twice about ever travelling by rail.