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I give it a 6/10.
A few of my negative preconceived notions about it bore out: that the shaking of the train would make some scenes difficult to watch and that the narrow environment of the train would result in hiding the monster for the majority of the film. More exterior shots/mattes would have provided a nice contrast, but I'm sure the budget precluded them.
The film does have its merits. As expected, the main actors are at the top of their game and made the unnecessarily talky parts tolerable (Why talk about the creature when showing it is far more entertaining?). The creature design is fairly simple but effectively horrific, prompting the wish that you-know-who would undergo a full-scale transformation. What surprised me most was the monster's delightfully wacky m.o. Any kind of horror relative to the eyes always attracts my interest and is one of the reasons why I like such films as Anguish and the Black Xmas remake. A little splash of gore comes with the handling of the corpses, and humor finds it way into the mix via the character of Yev, who spits out such lines as "The stink of Hell is on this train".
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