History Film / TheTerror

Creator/{{Cinemassacre}}'s James Rolfe [[http://cinemassacre.com/2010/10/09/the-terror/ featured]] the movie as part of ''Monster Madness 2010: Camp Cult'', and eventually did [[http://cinemassacre.com/2012/12/02/the-terror-1963-commentary/ a feature-length commentary]] on it with Mike Mattei.

* PlayingGertrude: Occurs due to script being written on the fly. Katrina is Eric's mother. However, it is revealed that Eric [[spoiler:has taken the place the Baron]]. Dorothy Neumann was 26 years younger than [[spoiler:Creator/BorisKarloff]] who was playing [[spoiler:The Baron]]/Eric.

James Rolfe [[http://cinemassacre.com/2010/10/09/the-terror/ featured]] the movie as part of ''Monster Madness 2010: Camp Cult'', and eventually did [[http://cinemassacre.com/2012/12/02/the-terror-1963-commentary/ a feature-length commentary]] on it with Mike Mattei.

James Rolfe [[http://cinemassacre.com/2010/10/09/the-terror/ featured]] the movie as part of Monster Madness 2010: Camp Cult, and eventually did [[http://cinemassacre.com/2012/12/02/the-terror-1963-commentary/ a feature-length commentary]] on it with Mike Mattei.

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[[caption-width-right:300:Good luck figuring out what the "Terror" really is.]]

In 1806, a lost french soldier named Andre Duvalier (Nicholson) is saved by a strange woman named Helene (Sandra Knight). Seeking refuge in a castle owned by the mysterious Baron Von Leppe (Karloff), Duvalier again finds the woman, who the Baron thinks is the ghost of his long-dead wife. However, Duvalier is instead convinced that the woman has been hypnotized by a witch, tormenting the Baron to the brink of madness.

After filming of this movie was complete, Corman realized he still had two more days of filming with Karloff on the contract. He thus appointed a young Peter Bogdanovich to create a movie using stock footage from ''The Terror'', starring Karloff. The result was ''Film/{{Targets}}''.

* PeekabooCorpse: The opening sequence shows the Baron descending into the crypts, and being startled by a bloody corpse that falls out when he opens a door. The scene is never explained or even referenced again in the movie.
* PlayingGertrude: Occurs due to script being written on the fly. Katrina is Eric's mother. However, it is revealed that Eric [[spoiler:has taken the place the Baron]]. Dorothy Neumann was 26 years younger than [[spoiler:Creator/Boris Karloff]] who was playing [[spoiler:The Baron]]/Eric.

Not to be confused with the [[Literature/TheTerror novel of the same title]] by Dan Simmons.

* QuicksandSucks: Gustav stops Andre from walking into a patch of quicksand on the path to the Baron's castle. He demonstrates its lethality by tossing a large stone into it, where it is immediately sucked down. The quicksand in an unfired ChekovsGun, as originally Gustav was later supposed to die in it, but the script was changed so he was attacked by a falcon and fell of a cliff instead.

* PlayingGertrude: Occurs due to script being written on the fly. Katrina is Eric's mother. However, it is revealed that Eric [[spoiler:has taken the place the Baron]]. Dorothy Neumann was 26 years young than [[spoiler:Creator/Boris Karloff]] who was playing [[spoiler:The Baron]]/Eric.

* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Katrina's falcon is named Helene, which is the name of the young woman who may or may not be in the ghost/reincarnation of Ilsa von Leppe: a woman who Katrina says does not exist.

* RisingWaterRisingTension: The climax involves the Baron a floodgate to let the sea in the crypts below the castle, drowning himself and anyone who is with him.

* EyeScream: Gustav has his pecked out by Katrina's falcon.