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Summary: The Terror
Review: Come on its not that bad!Jack Nicholson is as great as always & Boris Karloff is...well...Boris Karloff.The plot is thin & the production is only fair but even Francis Ford Coppola(asst.director) had to start somewhere!
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Summary: Interesting Corman quickie with a few familiar faces.
Review: Filmed in just three days, this mega-low-budget thriller centers on a young soldier(Jack Nicholson) who follows a beautiful girl(Sandra Knight, then Mrs. Nicholson) to a creepy old castle inhabited by a mad Baron(Boris Karloff). You've got to hand it to Roger Corman, he can make even the most unlikely film look like it was done with some style. Though this certainly isn't one of American International's and Corman's better pieces, there are some good twists and the actors seem to be enjoying themselves.
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Summary: Boris and Roger, you gotta love 'em.
Review: For some reason, I like this film. It had atmosphere, a deserted castle, lightening and thunder, and Boris Karloff. The price of the "Master Movie" edition for this DVD is unbeatable, but then you're not getting wide screen, which is a let down. But as far as I know, there are, at this time, no wide screen editions of "The Terror" on DVD or VHS. However, the picture quality is great, and sound quality is acceptable. I'm really disappointed, though, not to see more of the Poe classic Corman films on DVD, yet, in wide screen, of course. A better buy, though a little more expensive, is "Tales of Terror". Excellent color, wide screen, beautiful sound, and of course, Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, and Peter Lorre.
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Summary: Roger Corman knocks off a film with Karloff and Nicholson
Review: Here is what happened: Roger Corman finished shooting "The Raven" two days ahead of schedule and since he had already paid for the sets he decided to knock off a movie in 48 hours. So what if there was not a script? As Karloff later explained, Corman was running around filming things two steps ahead of the wreckers tearing down the sets from "The Raven." However, for some time "The Terror" has enjoyed the reputation as being the cinematic low point of Jack Nicholson's distinguished film career. Nicholson plays Andre Duvalier, a veteran of the Napoleonic wars who finds himself on the shore of a strange land where he is bewitched by the sight of a beautiful woman, played by Sandra Knight (who was then married to Nicholson). At the ancient castle of Baron von Leppe (Karloff), Andre notices the picture of the Baron's deceased wife looks a lot like the woman he keeps seeing. If only Andre could get the Old Woman (Dorothy Neumann) to tell him the dark secrets of the Baron and his beloved Helene. "The Terror" is another one of those gloriously bad movies that some of us grew up with on late night television in the dark days and long nights before cable. Certainly Nicholson is given more to do in this film than he did in "The Raven," but he does look painfully out of place in all nonsense. Actually, the scenes with Karloff were shot on the sets in two days, while a lot of the Nicholson and Knight shots were down over the next three months. But the 48-hour bit has clearly become part of the legend of this film. The only way to watch "The Terror" is after having seen "The Raven."
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Summary: Roger Corman knocks off a film with Karloff and Nicholson
Review: Here is what happened: Roger Corman finished shooting "The Raven" two days ahead of schedule and since he had already paid for the sets he decided to knock off a movie in 48 hours. So what if there was not a script? As Karloff later explained, Corman was running around filming things two steps ahead of the wreckers tearing down the sets from "The Raven." However, for some time "The Terror" has enjoyed the reputation as being the cinematic low point of Jack Nicholson's distinguished film career. Nicholson plays Andre Duvalier, a veteran of the Napoleonic wars who finds himself on the shore of a strange land where he is bewitched by the sight of a beautiful woman, played by Sandra Knight (who was then married to Nicholson). At the ancient castle of Baron von Leppe (Karloff), Andre notices the picture of the Baron's deceased wife looks a lot like the woman he keeps seeing. If only Andre could get the Old Woman (Dorothy Neumann) to tell him the dark secrets of the Baron and his beloved Helene. "The Terror" is another one of those gloriously bad movies that some of us grew up with on late night television in the dark days and long nights before cable. Certainly Nicholson is given more to do in this film than he did in "The Raven," but he does look painfully out of place in all nonsense. Actually, the scenes with Karloff were shot on the sets in two days, while a lot of the Nicholson and Knight shots were down over the next three months. But the 48-hour bit has clearly become part of the legend of this film. The only way to watch "The Terror" is after having seen "The Raven."
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Summary: Roger Corman knocks off a film with Karloff and Nicholson
Review: Here is what happened: Roger Corman finished shooting "The Raven" two days ahead of schedule and since he had already paid for the sets he decided to knock off a movie in 48 hours. So what if there was not a script? As Karloff later explained, Corman was running around filming things two steps ahead of the wreckers tearing down the sets from "The Raven." However, for some time "The Terror" has enjoyed the reputation as being the cinematic low point of Jack Nicholson's distinguished film career. Nicholson plays Andre Duvalier, a veteran of the Napoleonic wars who finds himself on the shore of a strange land where he is bewitched by the sight of a beautiful woman, played by Sandra Knight (who was then married to Nicholson). At the ancient castle of Baron von Leppe (Karloff), Andre notices the picture of the Baron's deceased wife looks a lot like the woman he keeps seeing. If only Andre could get the Old Woman (Dorothy Neumann) to tell him the dark secrets of the Baron and his beloved Helene. "The Terror" is another one of those gloriously bad movies that some of us grew up with on late night television in the dark days and long nights before cable. Certainly Nicholson is given more to do in this film than he did in "The Raven," but he does look painfully out of place in all nonsense. Actually, the scenes with Karloff were shot on the sets in two days, while a lot of the Nicholson and Knight shots were down over the next three months. But the 48-hour bit has clearly become part of the legend of this film. The only way to watch "The Terror" is after having seen "The Raven."
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Summary: Not Really a "Terror", But It's Still Good!
Review: I have watched this movie twice on TV in the past, and I enjoyed it. Even though it's called "The Terror", it doesn't seem like a terror movie, but it is still entertaining. Jack Nicholson starred in this one (he was young then, just like in the original "Little Shop of Horrors" he was in before this one), and he played a Napoleon soldier. His then-wife, Sandra Knight, played Helene who was a "ghost" in the movie, and Boris Karloff, a famous horror movie actor, played the Baron.
This movie is a little phony, like the "witch" in the movie...and how she died. I never dreamed that lightning can burn a witch to a crisp like in this movie, just because she saw the hawk flying in the sky! Same thing at the ending when Nicholson kissed the beautiful Helene, who then melted on the ground, revealing her skeleton. Nice special effects in the 1960s...I give them (and Roger Corman) credit for that.
This is a good movie, although not Oscar-winning, to watch on a rainy day for fun.
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Summary: A Minor Classic.
Review: If you grew up in the sixties you probably husseled off down to the local cinema to chomp popcorn, slurp soda and watch a film like this, I know I did. Compaired to todays output it is about as terrifing as chocklate ice cream. You have a very young Jack Nicholson and a very old Boris Karloff performing this little drama on sets you should recognize from a dozen other "B" Horror films. Nicholeson's preformance forshadows his later success. For its time, this is an above average film, an excellent example of the type and period which is why I give it a 5. I found it well worth watching.
I quite enjoyed it, but that is dating myself.
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Summary: Good film and about the Three Day creation bit
Review: Look, for one poster who complained about the strangeness of seashores in Germany. Germany borders the North Sea. We don't pick on a film made in America but set in Germany simply cause no has a German accent. The film creates it's own set of supernatural horror rules but so does every movie that's a supernatural horror film. What is especially fake about a Jack Nicholson film? Movies are generally fictional and what you see in them is usually not really what it's supposed to be. It's a quite good film, The Terror, as the sets are beautiful and very convincing of early 19th century Europe. Just what anach-ronisms the film possesses escape me. Karloff's bathrobe maybe? As for the Three Day Creation bit: Nicholson is the proof that the film wasn't made in only three days but actually over months. He has more hair in the scenes in the castle sets (which in fact were only filmed in three days) than in the other scenes filmed later.
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Summary: one of the worst movies ever!
Review: No wonder there are no reviews made. I saw it on tv yesterday. It was terrible. It had a disgustingly simple plot.(One of the things I hate most in a movie or novel)The locale was far from being scary.By the way,I am a Jack Nicholson fan.(He was awesome as ever!)His existence was the only thing that kept me from turning off the tv. Well, worst vice is advice but please take it. Do not even bother to check out the details on the net. PS.This is the first film that I've seen directed by Roger Corman. I will buy his book on making movies in Hollywood and never losing a dime.If his other movies are directed in the same manner that won't be a surprise for me.(But you never know! )
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