Last Stop on the Night Train
Stomp out any warm holiday fuzzies with this absolutely brutal Italian film from 1975 that takes direct inspiration from Last House on the Left and that film’s own inspiration, The Virgin Spring. Except somehow it’s nastier than either of those movies, following a pair of schoolgirls targeted by lascivious thugs while traveling from Germany to Italy for Christmas—not for nothing, the film’s alternate title is Night Train Murders—and then the vicious parental revenge that follows.
