Moreover, with their class distinctions, trains also serve as a microcosm of society, while reflecting the political realities of the day. Their carriages, dining cars and sleeping compartments provide the claustrophobic setting for conversations, subterfuge, chases and shootouts. The romance of the steam age may have passed, but trains remain as evocative as ever.
But, while trains have frequently featured in westerns, horror, science-fiction and adventure films, they are particularly well suited to thrillers like Murder on the Orient Express, the Agatha Christie story that’s now pulling into cinemas in its second big-screen treatment. The concept of confining characters in limited spaces, with few places to hide from menacing pursuers, works across the genres. Murder on the Orient Express is in cinemas from 3 November 2017Įver since the earliest cinema audiences purportedly fled in fright at the locomotive rumbling into the station in an 1895 Lumière short, filmmakers have exploited the thrilling potential of trains. BFI Thriller, a season of films that get the pulse and mind racing, runs at BFI Southbank from October-December 2017
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