Eugenio Martín directs Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas in this horror where a Victorian palaeontologist sneaks aboard a killer creature onto a Trans-Siberian railway journey.

Camp gothic imperialism with paint red blood and a cult cast. Not particularly scary but pretty far reaching in terms of its monster’s origins and abilities. Helga Liné and Silvia Tortosa provide some post-Hammer classy totty but no one can outsex Savalas’ short lived Cossack Captain. He gatecrashes the proceedings just when things start to get stuck in a rut and thrusts us into a neat all-action finale.

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Perfect Double Bill: Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)

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