It's usually fair warning when the video box for a B-grade horror flick mentions Freddy (Krueger) and Jason (Vorhees) from more succesful movies. This is usually because the film within is nothing but a piss-poor slasher movie. However, sometimes a movie bucks the trend and actually turns out okay. Sleeping Car is one of them.

Newly seperated thirty-something David Naughton moves to a new town to go back to college and rents an old railcar that's been converted into a house. Well, it seems the railcar is housing the nasty spirit "The Mister" who died in the car years earlier. This leads to all sorts of supernatural mayhem.

Pleasing and undemanding genre picture isn't to be taken a tad seriously and is pretty entertaining with decent effects even if the plot is mostly lackluster.

Some moments of over-acting and pointless nudity early on are soon forgotten as this silly little movie piles on the juvenile humour and pretty cool deaths (there's a nice bed spring death and a hide-a-bed fold-up). We even get B-movie favourite Kevin McCarthy playing the weirdo next door neighbour. Heck, even the "Mister" looks pretty cool.

Directed By: Douglas Curtis.
Written By: Greg O'Neill.

Starring: David Naughton, Judie Aronson, Jeff Conaway, Dani Minnick.