The Terror
1963 Dir. Roger Corman Just after Corman had wrapped up on The Raven , he realised that his star Boris Karloff still had a couple of days left to fulfil in his contract. Corman therefore did the only logical thing and quickly improvised and made a new film in order to utilise Karloff’s remaining couple of days (!). Using the same sets from The Raven and some shots from Corman’s other Poe films, a number of other uncredited directors, including Jack Nicolson, he produced The Terror in a matter of days. The story focuses on Poe-esque lone traveller Lt. Andre Duvalier (Jack Nicholson), a French officer separated from his regiment during the Napoleonic Wars. He stumbles upon a mysterious beach and meets a woman called Helene (Sandra Knight). She gives him water and then disappears. Duvalier traces her to the castle of Baron Victor Frederick Von Leppe (Boris Karloff) and his servant Stefan (Dick Miller). There Andre realises that something deeply sinister is afoot as he discovers t...