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The Terror (1963) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 7, 2001
Running Time
1 hour, 21 minutes
Country USA
Studio American International Pictures
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Other Titles
• The Terror
• The Castle of Terror (1963)
• The Haunting (1963)
• Lady of the Shadows
• The Terror - Schloß des Schreckens (1981)
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Genre: Horror, Ghosts, Revenge, Cult Classic, Suspense, Haunted House
Tagline: There's No Rest For The Wicked...
Plot: Horror legend Boris Karloff and a young Jack Nicholson team up in this disjointed but enjoyable Roger Corman quickie. Nicholson plays Lieutenant Andre Duvalier, an officer under Napoleon who finds himself lost along a stretch of beach, where he is seduced by the beautiful Helene (Sandra Knight), who may or may not be a ghost. His obsession leads him to the gloomy castle of Baron Von Leppe (Karloff), a recluse haunted by the ghost of his dead wife, Ilse, who Andre suspects is actually Helene, or vice versa. Longtime Corman regular Dick Miller plays Stefan, Von Leppe's trusty servant, and Dorothy Neumann is a witch who may be using Helene as a tool for revenge. All the characters do lots of skulking around the gloomy sets and outdoors along the beautiful Big Sur coastline, where the exteriors were filmed. Corman shot the interior scenes in two days, on sets left standing from his previous film, THE RAVEN. Though a little short on coherence, it's a lot of fun, and it's great to see Karloff and Nicholson together in a sort of passing of the machiavellian torch. A nicely ominous mood maintains itself with the help of Ronald Stein’s robust
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 Shot in three days using sets from Corman's The Raven this makes little sense and is quite dull.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
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| Directed by |
Roger Corman
The Little Shop of Horrors, The Raven, Pit and the Pendulum |
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| Written by |
Leo Gordon
Attack of the Giant Leeches, The Wasp Woman, Tower of London | |
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| Cast |
Boris Karloff
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein |
 | Jack Nicholson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, As Good as It Gets |
 | Sandra Knight
Thunder Road, The Haunting of Morella, Tower of London | Dick Miller
The Terminator, Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch | | Jonathan Haze
The Little Shop of Horrors, X, It Conquered the World | |
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| Music By |
Ronald Stein
Dementia 13, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, The Haunted Palace |
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