- published: 31 Mar 2015
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The Terror (1963) is an American horror film produced by Roger Corman, and famous for being filmed on leftover film sets from other AIP productions, including The Haunted Palace. The movie was also released as Lady of the Shadows, The Castle of Terror and The Haunting, and was later featured as an episode of Cinema Insomnia and of Elvira's Movie Macabre. Although loosely linked to Corman's series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, and considered by some to be the sixth film of the series (Tales of Terror 1962 was the fourth; The Haunted Palace (1963), filmed prior to The Terror, is actually an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward; the fifth film in the series is therefore The Raven (1963)), The Terror is not based on any text of Poe's and hence cannot be regarded as part of a series of Poe adaptations.
Although credited to Corman, parts of the film were shot by Francis Ford Coppola, Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, and Jack Nicholson. Corman shot footage of star Boris Karloff and other actors walking across the sets and downstairs with the belief that he would be able to make sense of them later. In the next three days Coppola, Helman and Hill all tried to do something. Nicholson, who was keen to get directing experience himself, also took a turn behind the camera.
Actors: Frank Miller (actor), A.E. Coleby (writer), A.E. Coleby (director),
Genres: Short,