The Terror (1963) | Directed by Roger Corman - Full Movie

A young officer in Napoleon's Army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly Baron.

The Terror is a 1963 American independent horror film produced and directed by Roger Corman. The film stars Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson, the latter of whom portrays a French officer who is seduced by a woman who is also a shapeshifting devil.

The film is sometimes linked to Corman's Poe cycle, a series of movies based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe; however, The Terror is not based on any text written by Poe. The movie has become famous because of the circumstances of its production, including the fact all of Boris Karloff's scenes were shot in two days, the long time it took to complete, the number of people who worked on it that became famous, and the part the film played in the financing and production of Targets (1968), directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Karloff.

Directed by: Roger Corman
Uncredited: Francis Ford Coppola, Dennis Jacob, Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, Jack Nicholson
Written by: Leo Gordon, Jack Hill
Produced by: Roger Corman
Starring: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller
Jonathan Haze
Cinematography: John Mathew Nickolaus, Jr.
Uncredited: Floyd Crosby, Conrad Hall
Edited by: Stuart O'Brien
Music by: Ronald Stein
Uncredited: Les Baxter
Production company: The Filmgroup
Distributed by: American International Pictures
Release date: June 17, 1963 (United States),1991 (France)
Running time: 81 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Box office: 9,915 admissions (France) (1991)