Runaway Train (1985)
Who needs Steampunk when an Alaska railroad can give you this much industrial gothic?

Screenplay by no less than Akira Kurosawa (of 7 Samurai fame), this is one of the most under-rated films ever, even though it got 3 Oscar nominations.

I'm not going to spoil the plot, but 2 escaped convicts (one played by the awesome John Voigt) and a railroad worker end up stuck on a runaway train thundering to its doom in snow-blanketed Alaska. The visuals and camerawork are amazing, the soundtrack is haunting and the final scene is one of the most moving in film history.

Watch this film.
(Axeman Jim, Thu 17 Jul 2008, 19:03, 2 replies)

Oooh this
nobody seems to have heard of it but I've seeen it several times. Fucking brilliant, top-notch suspense, especially the last 15 minutes

although I find it hard to watch the bit where the train couplings close together while that bloke had his fingers in there.....

"Manneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....."
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 18 Jul 2008, 17:26, closed)

An absolute stonker of a film.
No CGI either- its the real deal. Never been given the quality of DVD release it deserves.
(Leonard Hatred briefly did some work on, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 10:35, closed)