Late Night Trains (1975) aka L'ultimo treno della notte aka Night Train Murders aka Last Stop on the Night Train, directed by Aldo Lado, remastered, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original Italian theatrical stereo, English stereo dub, and English and German subtitles.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073836/

Video encoded in two-pass 9 200 kbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.

English subtitles OCRed, proofed and corrected. German subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.

Note : If there's one thing you can say about Italian genre cinema, it's that it's always been quick to pick up on trends. So when Wes Craven's The Last House On the Left proved to be something of an exploitation hit, there was a string of Italian knockoffs, remakes, reinterpretations, and plain copies, most of which have some sort of "The Last Something" title. This is one of the better ones, actually surpassing the original in many ways (if nothing else, it has much better cinematography and acting), although the plot is largely derivative. Argento fans should also find some familiar faces, with both Macha Méril, who played the psychic in the beginning of Deep Red, and Flavio Bucci, who played the blind pianist in Suspiria, playing two of the main villains here.

The plot is basically The Last House On the Left, but with two girls traveling home from Austria to Italy for Christmas, instead of going on vacation, and the psycho family replaced by two thugs and a nyphomaniac who joins them on the train. A lot of it is the same, though, down to one of the bad guys being hooked on heroin, man, that ubiquitous 70s sign that things have gotten out of hand, and the villains ending up as guests at the parents' house. Still, it's well executed and pretty tense, as well as having some pretty gnarly rape stuff.

This is a quite good looking and clean remaster, with good color and contrast, showcasing the very nice cinematography. Both the Italian stereo and the English dub sound fine, although, as usual, watch it in Italian. No commentary track or anything, which is a bit of a shame.

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