Sandee Currie is the best friend for Curtis in Terror Train (1980) and I'd hate not to mention her in relation to the film if just in passing before moving on to the next film. Often movies return to the shadows of our attention, resurfacing when we decide to once again re-embrace them, welcoming their images playing out from start to finish before us. There's always a face or particular instance that holds us. Currie was it this time for me. She hadn't really before. For a majority of the film her character is flighty and high on life, seemingly okay with her place, not exactly happy that Curtis is leaving her side for a bright career ahead of her. Currie is attached to Bochner's Doc, and this look on her face as he walks away with another woman (the stunning Vanity) speaks on the disappointment and acknowledgement that he'll never truly devote himself to her. She discourages Curtis from looking for Mo because catching him in an uncompromising situation would be devastating. She is always smoking some joint or plying herself with booze to deflate the enormity of the loss of her truest friend and potential end to the romance with the man she loves. Her end, as she unknowingly accepts possible cheap sex with a friend in a lizard costume (which reminded me of the monster Capt Kirk combats in "Arena") in a sleeping compartment shielded by a thick curtain, is the unfortunate close to a character who never really deserved her fate. Like Alana, her Mitchy was a willing accomplice in a prank that eventually encouraged psychosis. She was a tragic beauty. I would like to know more about the actress. I see that she was in Curtains (1983) which I've only seen once. But all I know is that she died in 1996. Her fatal beauty in Terror Train didn't just fly away into the fade, as I can see her now, Mitchy trying to steel her resolve as the man she loves seems to be betraying her.
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