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If you find a train pass on the ground, please leave it alone...this movie had a lot of chills and thrills.  Of course the signature long black hair coming out of the shadows with the pure white face and some very startling scenes.  A cursed train pass makes people turn into zombies to kill.  I thought most of this movie was pretty good - there were some very long sappy scenes at times and the effects were a little cartoonish AND to tell you the truth the ending was confusing.  But I did like the ambiance of the movie and I really liked some of the scenes on the train tracks.

The Tripper is definately a SLASHER movie, if you don't like gore, don't watch this.  Even with blood spurting everywhere it was a really cool film.  You can really see David Arquette's playful and crazy side in directing this movie.  It was extremely original, and I'm sure has a lot of political symbolism in it for liberals and conservatives alike.  Also there was a brief full frontal male nudity (something you don't see in hardly any movies) BUT unfortunately it was not Balthazar Getty, it was a skinny, pale hippy guy - BUT it's progress!  So, if you are a slasher fan, I think you may like it, actually, watch it a couple of times and try to figure out a lot of meanings behind some things, it is pretty interesting!

I've always loved Petter Lorre in just about anything, this is definately no exception.  I actually think this is one of his best performances, showing he can do high drama as well as some of his comedic roles in other movies.  It is about a town that has a serial killer on the lose who kills young children, the police have a crackdown on every aspect of crime and the crime bosses are tired of being constantly harrassed so they decided to find the killer themselves and give him a (actually a pretty fair) trial.  This film also shows the mentality of people when something like this happens, almost like the Salem Witch hunts (every man that even stops to talk to a child gets accused and beatten).  There were times I almost felt sorry for the killer and how he could not control his tendencies, but I still wanted him to be torn apart and hoped he would not be saved...anyway, it's a great movie and really interesting.