The Terror (1963 film)
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| The Terror | |
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| Directed by | Roger Corman Francis Ford Coppola Monte Hellman Jack Hill Jack Nicholson |
| Produced by | Roger Corman Harvey Jacobson Francis Ford Coppola |
| Written by | Leo Gordon Jack Hill Roger Corman |
| Starring | Boris Karloff Jack Nicholson Sandra Knight |
| Music by | Ronald Stein Les Baxter |
| Cinematography | John M. Nickolaus Jr. |
| Editing by | Stuart O'Brien |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 17 June 1963 |
| Running time | 81 min |
| Country |  |
| Language | English |
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The Terror is a 1963 American horror film produced by Roger Corman. The film is known for having a number of directors, including Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Monte Hellman, Jack Nicholson, and Jack Hill. Today, the film is in the public domain because of missing copyright indication.
[edit] Plot
Set in 1806, it is the story of a lost French soldier (Jack Nicholson) saved by a young strange Helena (Sandra Knight), who looks like the painted Ilsa, the baron's (Boris Karloff) wife, who deceased 20 years ago. A cosy horror film by Roger Corman
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- Clips from the film were used years later in the 1968 Karloff movie, Targets.
- Leftover sets from other AIP films were also used, notably those from The Haunted Palace, a Vincent Price horror film made the same year. The tree against which Sandra Knight expires was the same one Price was tied to and burned in Palace.
- Although credited to Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Monte Hellman, Jack Hill and Jack Nicholson, all shot parts of the film. Corman shot footage of Karloff and other actors walking across the sets and down stairs with the belief that he would be able to make sense of them later. In the next three days Coppola, Helman and Hill all tried to do something. Nicholson, who was keen to get directing experience himself, also took a turn behind the camera.
- The film was also released as Lady of the Shadows, The Castle of Terror, and The Haunting.
- Actor Dick Miller, who plays Karloff's major domo, was hired to shoot new scenes in the early 1990s to use as framing sequence for an overseas version of The Terror. Under this scheme, the main action of the film is presented in flashback.
