Kenny Hampson(Terror Train)

## Poster

**Kenny Hampson** is the main slasher villain from the 1980 slasher film, Terror Train.

He is portrayed by **Derek MacKinnon**.

## Personality

Kenny, at first, appears to be a shy young man but is capable of committing murder. He is also shown to be vengeful against anyone who traumatizes him

## Background

Kenny is a freshman attending a fraternity college, however, he was a sick man as he had killed someone before in his life.

During a New Year’s Eve party at the college, Kenny was told by a bunch of other freshman, Doc, Jackson, Ed, and Mo, that a girl, named Alana, wants to have sex with him. This was, however, a prank that Alana was reluctantly apart of. Once upstairs in a bedroom in the frat house, Kenny gets into bed with a figure that Alana tricks him into believing it’s her. Once in the bed, Kenny finds out the figure isn’t Alana, but a corpse from a medical school. Kenny freaks out from the body as everyone who pranked against him walks in and Alana is horrified to discover the corpse was used in her place. Traumatized from the prank, Kenny is taken to a hospital where Alana wanted to visit him but is unable to and learns that Kenny killed someone before.

## Biography

Three years later, Kenny is released from the prison and decides to get his revenge on the ones who traumatized him. All the students from the university celebrate New Year’s Eve by having a costume party on a train for graduation where a magician and his female assistant are going to perform on. However, Kenny is at the train station and kills Ed, who is wearing a Groucho Marx costume, before everyone boards inside the train. As everyone does board into the train, Ed arrives back with a sword stabbed into him and everyone thinks it’s part of a gag. Ed dies on the ground and Kenny steals his costume before placing him on the tracks to get crushed by the moving train, then he boards on the train in Ed’s costume.

While on the train, Kenny spots Alana talking to her friend, Mitchy, and follows her through the train to see that she’s still hanging out with Doc, Jackson, and Mo.

Mitchy finds Kenny, thinking he’s Ed, and takes him to see Pet. Kenny plans to kill her until they run into Jackson, wearing a reptilian alien costume. As Mitchy walks away, Jackson takes him into the train’s rest room to pour him a glass of alcohol from his flask. After Jackson pours him a glass, Kenny grabs his head and pulls his own mask off, revealing his true identity to Jackson before smashing his head into the restroom’s mirror.

After killing Jackson, Kenny ditches the Groucho Marx costume and locks up the restroom. Later, the train’s conductor, Carne, checks out the locked restroom and uses the passkey to unlock it. Once opening it up, Carne discovers Jackson’s body laying on the floor and covered with blood. Once Carne and his co-worker, Charlie, take another look in the rest room, they find all the blood gone and Kenny is now in Jackson’s costume. The two figured that he was just drunk as Mitchy arrives and takes Kenny away, believing him to be Jackson.

Mitchy takes Kenny to the train’s bunkers where she coaxes him to have sex with her. Kenny begins caressing her before taking the glove off and starts caressing her breasts with Jackson’s severed hand. He then leaves the severed hand on her chest, horrifying her. Kenny covers her mouth before she could scream and then kills her. Later, Carne walks through the train until he discovers Mitchy’s corpse in the bunker with her throat slit.

Carne comes across Alana and lets her know about Mitchy’s death. Meanwhile, as Mo and Doc are watching the magic show, Doc finds out Mo has somehow been stabbed during the show and tries to find some help, where he comes across Carne and Alana. Upon hearing Mitchy’s death, Doc pulls the railway brakes. However, the train doesn’t stop so Carne heads all the way to the train’s controls to find that the train driver, Walter, is now missing. The only thing found is his hat with blood on the inside.

Carne stops the train and has everyone exit temporarily while two of the train’s Porters look for Kenny in the train. They find nothing except for Pet’s dead body. Carne calls out everyone’s names where Doc realizes that only his friends are missing. Alana comes to the conclusion that Kenny is the one doing all this because of the prank years ago and reveals to Doc that he killed before the prank.

Realizing that they’re next, Doc drags Alana back to the train and locks them inside one of the cars. Doc shows Alana a yearbook showing that Kenny was involved with magic, making them believe that Kenny is disguised as the magician. Alana breaks out of the room, wanting to warn everybody where as Doc wants to stay locked in to avoid Kenny. However, while in the room, Doc begins looking around the room to see if Kenny is inside with him. Eventually, a hand grabs his ankle and he trips. When Kenny places his hand on Doc’s shoulder, he believes it’s Mitchy’s hand, due to the ring and finger polish, and begins to think it was a joke until Kenny pulls a switchblade and slits Doc’s throat.

As soon as the train starts running again, Alana warns Carne about the magician possibly being Kenny. When she takes him to Doc’s room, they find him decapitated. Carne evacuates everyone off the car where the magician is at, even his female assistant, and locks it up. Alana is taken to a vacant car where the Chief Porter keeps an eye on her from outside. However, Kenny, wearing Mitchy’s witch costume, kills him with a sword and takes his axe. He then heads into Alana’s room and hacks her with the axe, only to discover a doll in her place. Alana comes out of room’s closet and stabs Kenny in the back with a sword. Kenny chases Alana through the train until they arrive to the conductor’s car. With the only way out locked, Kenny begins to choke Alana but she manages to bite him and spray him with a fire extinguisher. Alana locks herself in the car’s office box which Kenny is unable to break into, so he take a long crowbar in the car, smashes the bulbs from the light fixtures to darken the room, and thrusts the crowbar through the office box’s wired gate to stab Alana. He then uses it to pry the door open but Alana uses the office box’s letter spike to stab Kenny in the face. Alana than escapes the office box and she and Kenny arrive outside the train while in-between the two cars where she manages to push Kenny off. Carne arrives and brings Alana back inside, both unaware that Kenny managed to grab onto the train without falling completely off.

Climbing outside the train, Kenny makes it back inside. Meanwhile, as Alana is looking outside from the back of the magician’s car, she looks around the room until one of the boxes opens up and reveal the magician’s dead corpse with two swords stabbed into him.

Freaking out, Alana runs through the train until she finds Charlie and tells him about the magician. However, Charlie grabs Alana’s wrists and it’s revealed it’s Kenny wearing Charlie’s outfit. Kenny takes the hat off to reveal a wig, making Alana realize that he was on the train disguised as the magician’s female assistant. Despite Alana apologizing, Kenny makes her kiss him. However, the kiss makes him remember the prank and suddenly starts freaking out himself as he goes through a mental breakdown. Carne arrives in the car and uses the coal shovel to beat Kenny and push him out of the train just as they were passing a bridge over a frozen stream, where Kenny falls to his death and floats down the stream.

## Murder Objects

### Handheld Weapons

* Sword
* Switchblade

## Kills

* **Ed**: Impaled by a sword, then left on the tracks to be crushed by a moving train.(Off-screen)
* **Jackson**: Head smashed into mirror.
* **Michelle 'Mitchy'** : Throat slit.(Off-screen)
* **Mo**: Stabbed in the chest.(off-screen)
* **Walter**: Hat found with blood. (Method Unknown)
* **Pet**: Found laying on the floor of the train.(Method Unknown)
* **Doc**: Decapitated by switchblade.(Off-screen)
* **Chief Porter**: Impaled with a sword.(Off-screen)
* **The Magician**: Shoved into a box and stabbed by two swords.(Off-screen)