History Film / TheTerror

* DeadPersomImoersonation: [[spoiler:Stefan accidentally killed the Baron on the night when the Baron caught Eric and Ilsa together. Eric adopted the baron's identity and locked himself away in the castle for 20 years]], eventually BecomingTheMask]].
* EyeScream: Gusav has his pecked out by Katarina's falcon.

The film was infamously made using left-overs from ''[[Film/TheRaven1963 The Raven]]'' (including both the cast and sets), which Corman finished two days earlier than expected. Having Boris Karloff on hand, Corman decided to write and film his scenes first, and then figure out everything else afterwards as there wasn't even a script. Also notable is that Corman wasn't the only director, as the movie had at least four other people directing scenes, two of them being Creator/FrancisFordCoppola and Creator/JackNicholson. The result is, as Creator/JamesRolfe put it, "a mishmash of two things: 1, people walking around in dark rooms, and 2, people explaining new plot twists every other scene as if ten different [[Creator/MNightShyamalan M. Night Shyamalans]] were involved".

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.

In 1806, a lost french soldier named Andre Duvalier is saved by a strange woman named Helene. Seeking refuge in a castle owned by a baron, Duvalier finds the woman again, 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.

-->-- '''James Rolfe'''

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[[caption-width-right:216:Good luck figuring out what the "Terror" really is.]]

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

-->''Out of all the movies that Jack Nicholson's famous for, I wonder if anyone's ever talked to him about this one? If I had the chance, I'd say "Man, you gave me The Terror!"''

'''''The Terror''''' is a 1963 horror film directed by Creator/RogerCorman, starring Creator/BorisKarloff in one of his last film roles and Creator/JackNicholson in one of his first.

-->''Out of all the movies that Jack Nicholson's famous for, I wonder if anyone's ever talked to him about this one? If I had the chance, I'd say "Man, you have me The Terror!"''

''The Terror'' is 1963 horror film by Creator/RogerCorman. It stars Creator/BorisKarloff and Creator/JackNicholson.

In 1806, a lost soldier from the French army finds himself in a strange castle, and investigates the strange people around it.

Soldier from the French army finds himself amidst a strange castle, and investigates the strange people around it.

* PoorCommunitaionKills: Stefan confronts the old woman living in the cabin on the Baron's lands. He knows she's a witch, has some sort of plan against the Baron, and threatens to burn her out if she doesn't leave. She tells him she's avenging Eric. What Stefan doesn't ask is who Eric is to her, thus setting up the rest of the movie.

* StyrofoamRocks: During the climax, rocks which fall on water start floating on it.

''The Terror'' is 1963 horror film by Roger Corman. It stars Creator/BorisKarloff and Creator/JackNicholson.

* StyrofoamRocks: During the climax, rocks which fall on water start floating on it.

''The Terror'' is a 2006 HistoricalFiction/Supernatural Horror novel written by DanSimmons, detailing the doomed 1845 voyage to explore the Northwest Passage of ships HMS Terror and Erebus.

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!!This work contains examples of:
* AbandonShip
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: Hickey believes this of himself, even as he watches The Thing devour his band of cannibal mutineers and [[YourSoulIsMine his very soul.]]]]
* AnyoneCanDie: Many anonymous crew members are eating by The Thing, and several important characters are mentioned as having died in passing, with little to no fanfare. By the end of the book, the remaining crew is not even bothering to bury their dead.
* BurialAtSea: Somewhat subverted, as the sea is so deeply frozen the crew members can only dig holes in the ice to bury their dead in.
* DearDiary: Dr. Goodsir keeps a diary and most of the chapters centering on him consist of his diary entries.
* {{Dedication}}: Perhaps fittingly, to the cast of TheThingFromAnotherWorld.
* {{Determinator}}: Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier. Also Icemaster Blanky, [[spoiler: who successfully escapes being eaten by the creature ''twice.'' The creature ends up eating the man only because he finally sits down and allows it to.]]
* DoorStopper
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Crozier does this while recovering from quitting drinking [[GoingColdTurkey cold turkey]].
* DwindlingParty
* GentleGiant: Manson, at least unless directed otherwise.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Hickey decides John Irving must die after he catches him and Magnus Manson [[SituationalSexuality with their pants down.]]]]
* HopeSpot: A number of these. Most involve the possibility of finding open leads to sail out of the frozen sea on.
* ImmuneToBullets: The Thing.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* MindlinkMates: Crozier and Lady Silence.
* PsychicLink: Crozier eventually develops this with Lady Silence.
* ShoutOut: An in-universe example, one of the crew members suggest the Grand Venetian Carnivale tents be designed in the same manner as the colored rooms in [[EdgarAllanPoe Poe's]] Masque of the Red Death.
* TheAlcoholic: Crozier.
* TheCaptain: Crozier.
* TheVoiceless: Lady Silence.
* ThisIsAsFarAsIGo: [[spoiler: Icemaster Blanky and John Bridgens realize the futility of the situation and decide to die with a modicum of dignity. Blanky is eaten by The Thing, but Bridgens fate is not written but certainly he dies as well.]]
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[spoiler: The map of the area the ships Terror and Erebus and their respective crews are traversing in the novel is marked with the burial locations of a number of characters, by name, so when characters with these names begin showing up it's not hard to realize who's not going to survive.]]
* WoodenShipsAndIronMen
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: Sir John Franklin's wife is smitten with a Peter Mark Roget. Sir John dismisses his plans of writing a "[[ItWillNeverCatchOn silly dictionary.]]"

* ShoutOut:

* Dedication: Perhaps fittingly, to the cast of TheThingFromAnotherWorld.
* Determinator: Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier. Also Icemaster Blanky, [[spoiler: who successfully escapes being eaten by the creature ''twice.'' The creature ends up eating the man only because he finally sits down and allows it to.]]

* DwindlingParty

* The Voiceless: Lady Silence.

* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: Hickey, even as he watches The Thing devour his band of cannibal mutineers and [[YourSoulIsMine his very soul.]]]]

* Determinator: Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier. Also Icemaster Blanky, [[spoiler: who successfully escapes being eaten by the creature ''twice.'']]
* Doorstopper

* WoodenShipsAndIronMen

!!This work contains examples of: