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The Terror - Movie Review |
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In this horror chiller, an intriguing, beautiful woman (Sandra Knight) keeps re-appearing to early 19th-century Lt. Duvalier (Jack Nicholson), a young officer in Napoleon's army, and he is led to a castle where he finds an imposter of Baron Von Leppe (Boris Karloff). He becomes trapped in the ancient castle and tries to make sense of the eerie situation. Director Roger Corman (with the help of a few other directors, including Francis Ford Coppola) shot this film in only four after finishing The Raven--utilizing the same set and the same two lead actors. Corman shot the castle scenes with Boris Karloff so quickly that he didn't even bother to use slates to mark the beginnings of shots. Once he just had the actors walk downstairs one after another in succession, figuring he could later cut the single shot into separate shots that he could probably use somewhere. Clips from the film were used years later in the 1968 Karloff movie, Targets.
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The Terror - Cast & Crew |
| Directed by: Roger Corman Written by: Jack Hill, Leo Gordon Starring: Boris Karloff, Dick Miller, Dorothy Neumann, Jack Nicholson, Jonathan Haze, Sandra Knight Crew: Francis Ford Coppola, Harvey Jacobson, John M Nickolaus Jr Copyright: Public Domain Format: Colour Duration: 81 mins Year: 1963 Tags: B Movie, Horror |
The Terror Trivia - Did You Know?Apart from making dozens of enormously entertaining films (there are amazingly few duds in his output), Corman's place in film history is assured simply through his unrivalled eye for talent - among many world-class names who were employed by him at a very early stage in their careers are Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, Peter Bogdanovich, Joe Dante and many others - which means that his influence on modern American cinema is almost incalculable. Related FilmsThe Little Shop of Horrors | The Wasp Woman | Attack of the Giant Leeches | Frankensteins Daughter | Embryo | |
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