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Kenneth 'Kenny' Hampson is the main antagonist in Terror Train.
Biography[]
Kenny started dating Alana Maxwell and then was pranked by a group of college students.
Three years later, Kenny returns to get his revenge on the people that pranked him. Kenny his first victim, Ed, a prankster student and one of the ones involved in the prank against him, walks around with a sword through his stomach after Kenny stabbed him with it. The other students laugh and think its another one of his practical jokes, but he falls down after the people walk away and board the train. Kenny then takes Ed's Groucho Marx costume and rolls his dead body under the train tracks. The train leaves and the lights at the deserted station are turned off. The killer is wearing Ed's costume as he moves around the train.
Later, he meets up with Mitchy and the drunk Jackson, another two prankster students who were involved with the prank, however Jackson takes "Ed" to a nearby lavatory. After he takes "Ed" to the lavatory, he grabs Jackson, lifts up his mask for a second to let him see his face and revealing Kenny's identity, and slams Jackson's head into the mirror. Kenny then changes out of his Groucho Marx costume and leaves the lavatory.
Charlie arrives at the locked door to the lavatory and tells some girls passing by that it is out of order. Carne opens the door for him and the blood is gone and 'Jackson', wearing his alligator costume, is down on the floor moving. Carne thinks it was a practical joke and Mitchy walks by and leads 'Jackson' away.
At the same time, Mitchy is with the killer still wearing Jackson's alligator costume, unaware of who it really is. Mitchy beckons him to join her in a berth bed as Merry and Doc walk by. Mitchy leans down and asks 'Jackson' to have her way with her. The killer takes off a glove and lays a hand on Mitchy's chest. She looks down and sees that it is Jackson's severed hand. She tries to scream, but the killer puts his real hand over her mouth.
Later on, Kenny dresses up as the magician's assistant for his shows. He sees his ex-girlfriend Alana, her boyfriend Mo and her friend Doc, another two two prankster students who were involved with the prank. As the magician is performing his magic tricks, Kenny sneakily walks up to Mo and stabs him in the chest and then a few minutes later, Doc tries to wake up the "passed out" Mo and carry him, along with Train Conductor Carne and Alana, only to discover his chest wound and that Mo's dead.
Finally aware that there may be a maniac killer on board the train, Carne checks the lavatory and discovers a bloodied rag that the killer used to clean up the mess after killing Jackson. During the evacuation, Kenny went to the engine room and killed the two engineers, Shovels and Walter, and later Carne runs up to the engine room only to find Shovels' bloody cap.
Later when Doc checks every inch of the room from the lockers to the above berths. He sits down and then realizes that he forgot to check under the seats. He stands up and is grabbed by someone under his seat. He tries to escape, but Kenny's hand grabs his shoulder. He looks at the hand which has painted black fingernails and Mitchy's class ring. He settles down believing that Mitchy is joking with him, but then Kenny pulls out a knife and puts it to his neck and slashes his throat.
After he kills Doc, Kenny finds Brakeman Charlie and presumably kills him and takes his clothes. Which is then The Magician discovers Kenny and that leads to his death.
In the rooms compartment, the chief porter, Donley, is sitting dead in a chair, having been stabbed with one of the magician's swords. The killer is now wearing Mitchy's black robe and old man's mask costume and, taking the axe off the dead porter, quietly enters Alana's room and swings the axe at the covers, but it is only an inflatable doll. Alana, anticipating the killer would do just that, jumps out of a closet and stabs the killer in the shoulder with a sword. But the killer gets back up and chases her to the conductors car, but loses his axe when he swings and misses Alana and it flies out a window. Deprived of his weapon, the killer and Alana struggle with him trying to choke Alana. Alana sprays the killer with a fire extinguisher and takes refuge in a caged area with a desk. She locks herself in, and the killer arms himself with a crowbar and knocks out all the lights in the compartment and attempts to pry the lock. But Alana stabs him in the face with a letter opener, kicks the door open and runs out. The killer chases Alana and, during another struggle, falls between the train cars. Carne and his men arrive and leads the wounded and shaken Alana away, unaware that the killer is holding onto the side of the train car.
Later, as dawn begins to break, Alana sits alone in the back of the train in the show room and upon looking at the magician's folder and paperwork, finds the magician dead in a box, impaled with his swords. Alana screams, and runs out past the students and goes forward to the conductors compartment at the front of the train to find Carne and sees Charlie sitting at his desk. She tells him that the magician is dead and doesn't know who the killer is anymore. But the figure grabs her hands and she looks up and sees a masked person wearing Charlie's uniform. The killer has obviously killed Charlie, removed his uniform, and threw his body off the train for the side car door is slightly open. Alana asks the killer who he is, and he removes his mask, revealing a pasty white-faced Kenny (complete with a wound to his left cheek where she stabbed him earlier). Kenny then takes off his cap, revealing.... flowing blond hair (Kenny was the magician's female assistant). Kenny takes off his blond wig, removes his false teeth and wipes off his lipstick and white powder makeup. Alana tries to apologize to Kenny for her involvement in the prank, but he tells her that he always had a crush on her. He tells her to kiss him for he feels that Alana owes him just that for the past three years, and she reluctantly obeys.
Death[]
Kenny floating down the river
After Kenny goes insane when he made Alana kiss him, Carne hit him with a shovel causing him to fall out of an open door of the train and into freezing water, resulting in his death.
James gave his death "The Golden Chainsaw" award because it was the least boring out all the kills.
Killed Victims[]
- Edward - Stabbed through gut w/ sword
- Jackson - Head bashed into a mirror
- Mitchy - Throat slit offscreen
- Mo - Found dead w/ ketchup on neck & chest wounds
- Shovels - "He musta got 'em both'"
- Train Crew Member - "He musta got 'em both'"
- Doc - Decapitated offscreen
- Chief Porter Donley - Seen w/ sword in the gut
- The Magician - Found w/ swords in body
Possible Victims[]
- Pet - ??? (Disappears for the rest of the film during the evacuation scene.)
- Charlie The Brakeman - Most likely killed by Kenny.