adonis98-743-186503 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)

mrnunleygo I watched this movie because I like bad movies and this one promised Boris Karloff and a young Jack Nicholson in the same film. I really enjoyed it, but it's always hard to rate so-bad-it's-good movies (Should I give it a 1 or a 10?), which only appeal to a certain kind of audience. This Corman classic, reportedly pasted together from leftover sets and scenes shot by hired-for-the-day directors, proceeds as an atmospheric but otherwise merely bad spectral chiller until about 4/5ths of the way through, when an unexpected plot twist renders pretty much everything that came before incomprehensible, which tips the movie into bad-movie-hall-of-fame territory. The last 15 minutes are especially mind-boggling for anyone capable of three seconds of logical thought (like, uh, isn't that a rather unusual family crypt?). No nudity in 1963, but lots of fun. If you enjoy bad movies, go for it.

AaronCapenBanner Jack Nicholson stars as Lt. Andre Duvalier, a soldier in Napoleon's army in 18th century France who finds himself separated from his regiment, and asks a mysterious woman(Sandra Knight) directions, but she vanishes, and the Lt. meets up with an old witch(Dorothy Neumann) who insists that there was no such person. He doesn't believe her, and instead goes to the castle of Baron Victor Frederick Von Leppe(Boris Karloff) where he discovers that the woman was the spitting image of the Baron's late wife, and that supernatural occurrences are at the heart of this mystery...Though script is haphazardly written, film is surprisingly atmospheric and entertaining, with good performances by all, and is an improvement over Roger Corman's "The Raven", which this was filmed on the sets of.Final sequence is memorable but also too abrupt, though film is an effective Gothic horror tale, despite its obvious shortcomings.

Spikeopath 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