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The Terror (1963)
Director: Roger Corman
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Notable mainly for being the film that was screened at the drive-in in Bogdanovich's Targets, this is the real dud of Corman's Poe cycle, largely because he said, 'I had the weekend off before the last week of shooting The Raven; I was going to play tennis and it rained'. Not wanting to waste the set he'd had built, he embarked upon an almost incomprehensible tale of an officer in Napoleon's army (Nicholson) who falls for a woman who keeps disappearing; it turns out she's the long dead wife of Mad Baron Karloff. The film, despite its elements of necrophilia, has nothing whatsoever to do with Poe, and the fact that it was directed by about five different people (including Coppola, Monte Hellman and Nicholson himself) hardly makes for coherence. There are, however, a few strikingly moody images that make effective use of the California coastline, and the general air of chaotic improvisation is not altogether without its own special charm.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Roger Corman
Producer: Roger Corman
Cast: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller, Jonathon Haze full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 81 mins
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