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good back-story, and good acting

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

'The Terror' is low budgeted Roger Corman's quickie. The film got made only because Corman had opportunity to use sets left over from previous AIP productions and Boris Karloff for two days. The film is often linked with Corman's Poe themed series, but 'The Terror' is not based on any Poe's stories.In a year 1806 a French Army officer Andre Duvalier (Jack Nicholson) gets separated from his troops and gets lost. After meeting a beautiful woman named Helene (Sandra Knight) on the beach, he starts to investigate who the mysterious woman is. Duvalier finds himself as a guest in the castle of Baron von Leppe (Boris Karloff) and learns that girl on the beach is like two drops of water with Baron's wife Ilsa who died twenty years ago. And all sorts of mysterious things start to happen.When reading about Karloff's memories about making the movie, I think that this much story was actually written when Corman showed the script to him. There are many interesting scenes and nice acting, but all together the film was quite a mess. After editing was done Corman had to go back and film a scene between Nicholson and Dick Miller with them explaining the plot.Not the best film, but curiously interesting enough to check it out. The film which production is much more interesting story than the actual film itself.And it stars Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson and Dick Miller. With these three, count me in.

A young officer in Napoleon's Army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly Baron. Despite having Jack Nicholson as it's main star 'The Terror' is a boring 60's horror flick that goes nowhere and despite a good cast for the time that it was released and talented people in front and behind the camera the end result is a bland horror movie with no substence inside it. (0/10)

This is basically a silly, unrealistic, and muddled story, that leaves several questions unanswered. There are also several plot holes. For example: if the Baron is the old woman's son, how come that she never recognized him during all the years in the same village..? After all, a mother knows her son even if he changes his clothes and hair-style... Also, it was odd that they looked about the same age. And what become of the real Baron's body..? And what about the baby..? My own guess, which I think would have worked in reality, was that the Baroness had had a child in secret. And after the Baron (or Eric) was murdered, Eric (or the Baron) kept the child, a girl, locked up in the mansion - and she turned out exactly like her mother. And this young woman was in fact, what everybody believed was her mother's ghost. That had been a much better mystery I think! :-)The technical effects are very clumsy and bad compared to today's movies, but of course this was 1963, so THAT is a thing you have to accept.Anyway, if you are in the right mood, for example at a horror movie night around Halloween, this movie could well set the right atmosphere for the rest of the evening. If you forget about reason, and give yourself up to imagination. Because it has all the right scenery, interiors, exteriors, and props for an old-fashioned Gothic horror story. I felt that it had the atmosphere of Poe, BEFORE I read that the production was in reality strongly involved with the production of movies out of Poe stories. So that was well done! :-) Boris Karloff, of course, is unsurpassed in the kind of role he is playing, and it was also fun to see a young Jack Nicholson - before he was typecast as a grumpy middle-aged man.

In what amounts to a film made to kill time and use up the remaining days on Boris Karloff's contract, The Terror, crafted by Roger Corman and perhaps four other directors, is hardly good but still not as bad as it arguably should be? Plot simply follows a French soldier, Andre (Jack Nicholson), in 1806 who gets detached from his regiment and meets a mysterious young woman named Helene (Sandra Knight). Trying to unravel the mystery that surrounds her, Andre is led to the castle of Baron Victor Frederick Von Leppe (Karloff), from where it becomes apparent that Helene could be Ilsa, the Baron's wife who died twenty years earlier!In typically Corman style the film has decent atmosphere and the recycled sets from concurrent productions (The Haunted Palace/The Raven) form a good Gothic backdrop. With a number of hands involved in directing and the slim time frame for the production, the plotting is understandably skew-whiff, with some scenes actually serving no purpose, while dialogue is stilted and the delivery of such is sometimes laughable (Nicholson looks like he is reading from auto-cue at times). Yet it's pretty harmless as entertainment, if a touch boring, but Karloff is good value and the theme of past deeds haunting the present gives the film a doom laden edge. 5/10