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Producer Daniel Grodnik candidly talks about the making of the horror slasher cult favorite "Terror Train." Grodnik starts out by saying that he always wanted to be a producer before noting that the first two films he produced were "Starhops" and "Without Warning." Grodnik reveals that he got the idea for "Terror Train" after he saw both "Silver Streak" and "Halloween" as well as points out the original title was "Terrible Train" and that the killer was a psycho who escaped from an asylum in an earlier draft of the script. Moreover, Grodnick not only talks about making the movie under a Canadian tax shelter deal, but also discusses hiring Roger Spotiswoode to direct and casting Jamie Lee Curtis in the lead because she was a huge name in the horror genre at the time. Grodnik also says that David Copperfield's role as a magician was written into the script and states that he was surprised when 20th Century Fox spent so much money promoting the picture after they picked it up for theatrical distribution. Grodnik closes the interview by admitting that he just considers "Terror Train" to be a standard slice'n'dice item that's just basically "Halloween" on a train. Worth a watch for fans of the film.