HORROR BUSINESS Episode 159: HORROR EXPRESS and LAND OF THE MINOTAUR

Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We’ve got one heck of an episode in store for you guys as we’re talking about 1972’s Horror Express and 1976’s Land Of The Minotaur.           First off thank you to the fine folks over at Lehigh Valley Apparel Creations, the premiere screen-printing company of the Lehigh Valley. Chris Reject and his merry band of miscreants are ready to work with you to bring to life your vision of a t-shirt for your business, band, project, or whatever else it is you need represented by a shirt, sweater, pin, or coozy. Head on over to www.xlvacx.com to check them out. Thank you also to Essex Coffee Roasters, our newest sponsor. Head to www.essexcoffeeroasters.com to check out their fine assortment of coffee and enter CINEPUNX in the promo code for ten percent off your order! And as always thank you to our Patreon subscribers. Your support means the world to us and we are eternally thankful. If you would like to become a Patron, head to patreon.com/cinepunx. Thanks in advance!           We briefly talk what we’ve doing involving horror recently. We talk about the films 28 Years Later, Predator: Killer Of Killers, Found Footage: The Making Of The Patterson Project, and K-Pop Demon Hunters, as well as the manga Blood On The Tracks.            Up first is Horror Express. Liam gives a brief history of his viewing of the film and how the film had Hammer Film vibes, and how the film has a distinctly different vibe from the classic monster movies of the 1950s in that it’s a bit “meaner” and strangely sophisticated for a film from the time. We talk about how it feels like everyone in the film is genuinely in danger and how the film is classic Lee and Cushing, as well as the elements of ‘60s spy movies that show up throughout the film. Justin talks about how the film could have simply rested on the laurels of the plotline of having Christopher Lee smuggle a frozen creature onto a train that thaws out but instead veers off into a weird cosmic horror direction, as well as the film bearing a strong resemblance to The Thing From Another World. <img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-28649" src="https://i0.wp.com/cinepunx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/horrorexpress1.webp?resize=1011%2C600&#038;ssl=1" alt="" width="1011" height="600" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/cinepunx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/horrorexpress1.webp?resize=1011%2C600&amp;ssl=1 1011w, https://i0.wp.com/cinepunx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/horrorexpress1.webp?resize=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/cinepunx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/horrorexpress1.webp?resize=768%2C456&amp;ssl=1 768w, http