Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Tweekums In 1806 Andre Duvalier, a French army officer finds himself separated from his regiment. As he travels along the coast he meets a mysterious young woman named Helena. Suddenly she seems to vanish. He is later looked after by an old woman who claims he must have imaging Helena. He tries to find out more about her and ends up staying at the castle belonging to Baron von Leppe; it turns out Helena looks just like the Baron's late wife, who had died twenty years previously. The only people living in the castle are the Baron and his servant; they are adamant that there are no women in the castle. Eventually Andre learns the truth about how the Baron's wife died and a supernatural revenge plot.The main interest here is an early appearance from Jack Nicholson as Andre and Boris Karloff's performance as the Baron. The plot is a bit messy; especially the ending, the low budget is fairly obvious and much of the colour almost looks as though it added afterwards… surprisingly the last of these isn't too much of a problem as it adds to the atmosphere. While it isn't really scary there are a few scenes that are surprisingly gruesome for a film of the era; most notably after a man is attacked and blinded by a hawk. Overall this is hardly a must see but it is worth checking out for its early Jack Nicholson lead or if you like old low budget horror.

Scott LeBrun Jack Nicholson plays Andre Duvalier, a young officer in Napoleons' army in the early 19th century. Separated from his regiment, he chances to encounter a very beautiful but mysterious young woman, Helene (Sandra Knight, a.k.a. the real-life Mrs. Nicholson at the time). He becomes determined to find out this womans' story, and journeys to the nearby castle of the elderly Baron Von Leppe (Boris Karloff). Andre persists in his inquiries, receiving exposition from the Baron, his devoted butler Stefan (Dick Miller), and local witch Katrina (Dorothy Neumann).Considering the history of "The Terror", it's more entertaining than it may have had any right to be. Corman firmly establishes a solid Gothic atmosphere. "The Terror" may *not* be on the level of his highly regarded Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, but it's not bad at all either. He completed principal photography in just a few days, in his usual economic style, using the sets from "The Raven" while they were being torn down! Cormans' young associates, including Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, and Francis Ford Coppola (even Nicholson directed a few scenes) spent the next several months doing the second unit work. Overall they achieve a pretty good unity of vision. The screenplay, credited to Hill and actor Leo Gordon, is a little convoluted but is generally amusing, with doses of romance and tragedy. The cinematography by John M. Nickolaus Jr. and an uncredited Floyd Crosby is excellent, as is the music by the ever reliable Ronald Stein. The actors are all quite enjoyable to watch, especially Karloff, and Nicholson holds his own quite well opposite his veteran co-star. Corman stock company player Jonathan Haze plays the supporting role of Gustaf.A drive-in favourite, late show perennial, and frequent inclusion on public domain movie collections, "The Terror" is decent entertainment for old school horror fans.Six out of 10.

Catharina_Sweden 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.

william-c-allen-jr I voted 5 because I have no idea. Allow me to build some context:I was young and had just moved to Barcelona. I was sharing a flat with an old NY university roommate and friend in the rundown but exciting barrio Raval. We were both sick and sleeping on couches in the living room at random hours, be it day or night, with the television constantly burning.I awoke sometime around 3am and this movie was just beginning. And it wasn't dubbed into Spanish! I threw a boot at my friend and made him watch it with me. For an hour and a bit we were cackling like fevered demons. Watch this when sick, in a foreign land, in the middle of the night. You'll better appreciate the broody darkness of it then. Otherwise I strongly suspect it stinks.