Rainey Dawn While this isn't the greatest comedy horror film it is pretty good one with some chilling scenes. Some of the comedy is kinda lame but other parts of it is pretty damned funny. While I liked some of the comedy in the film, I wish they would have dropped the comedy part and made this one a straight horror film because this could have been super scary if done as out right horror movie.The story and special effects are so-so, not awful but not the best. The killing scenes are kinda funny sometimes.The film isn't anything special in the comedy-horror genre but I found it worth watching nonetheless. Mildly entertaining. Just something different to watch in the horror category.6/10

trashgang Still no proper release so far for this horror made in a time when horror was a not done and was almost death. Some big names from the genre in it, David Naughton of An American Werewolf In London (1981) and Kevin McCarthy and special effects man John Carl Buechler as The Mister.It take a while before the horror comes in, Jason (Naughton) is just divorced and is searching for a new place to stay, one he finds in an abandoned train car. But from the start we know something happened with the freight train and let this be a car from that accident. Jason awakes the ghost of the landlady's husband. A thing he better did not.The first half hour we go a bit into the characters with some comedy elements, especially at school. Jason got befriended with Kim (Judie Aronson) which he falls in love with but he still has nightmares of his ex Joanna (Dani Minnick). There's a bit of nudity here and there with the typical saxophone music. Judie Aronson shows her breasts while having sex with Jason. There's a bit of red stuff and at the end we do see the real Mister but by then it's all too late. Kevin wasn't convincing at all and even looked ridiculous. This is as I said it a thousand times before a perfect example why horror was on a low base around the time being made. Gore 0/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5

Backlash007 ~Spoiler~ The tagline for The Sleeping Car reads "Forget Freddy, Forget Jason, here comes The Mister!" What are execs thinking? Don't compare your cheesy little movie to icons. It's never true. The Sleeping Car is a movie that could have worked. David Naughton plays a man getting over a hellish marriage and trying to go back to school. He rents a railway passenger car that used to belong to The Mister. The Mister (played by effects man John Carl Beuchler) is a deceased railroad worker with a shady past who doesn't like sex, drugs, or rock and roll. As you probably guessed, he haunts the "sleeping car." Judi Aronson also stars as a saucy, young co-ed and Kevin McCarthy plays Vincent Tuttle, Naughton's bizarre neighbor. The plot is a bit clichéd but when has that ever stopped a horror movie from being good? The main thing holding it back, as others have pointed out, is the humor. There are way too many wisecracks during tense moments in the film. The Naughton character is cracking jokes during the final showdown with the ghost. If he's not scared, how am I supposed to scared for him? It just doesn't work. The special effects, which Beuchler also had a hand in, are really good (I also spied Wayne Toth's name in the credits). One death by couch springs is particularly cool. The Mister himself is also sporting a really creepy and badass look. But he's no Freddy and certainly no Jason. The Sleeping Car is the type of movie that could benefit from a remake.

millennia-2 ''The Sleeping Car' is by no means a good film. It's slow moving, lacks any atmosphere, and gets rather tedious at times, but it still manages to deliver the goods, or at least some of them. The production values are passable, but far from bad, and the script works to a degree, but for some reason the pieces don't fall into place as they should. The body count is only four, making it too tame to be a slasher movie (though it does hint at that, especially during the overlong climax), but too juvenile to be a psychological thriller/horror film.The acting isn't bad, but it sure isn't all that great. It seems like the actors were booked for three or four days for filming, and just wanted to get it over with, so they didn't seem to put a lot of effort into it. No one in particular stands out, and the characters don't make the movie any more interesting. On top of that, none of the characters are very well developed, with the exception of the professor, so that does little to help the cause.Still the movie does have several things working for it, not the least of which is some pretty impressive special effects for a movie of this caliber. Another is the creative and very gruesome death scenes, which may be the best part of this 'not quite there, but close' horror flick6/10