I wonder if I would have liked this film if it hadn’t starred Jack Nicholson. Maybe it could have gotten a 3 instead of a 2. Boris Karloff didn’t excel enough to make up for that.Shoulda had Tony Curtis, instead of Nicholson. :)

For some crazy reason boris karloff PUTS my wife in the mood to tie mE to the bed post bring out the thy high leather boots and punish me. This is because i make her watch Jerry Lewis films all week and that makes me a naughty boy > So when i brang out old boris we go back to the 1600's and she beats my butt beet red and i love it thank you HULU THANK you SO MUCH SHHHHHHHHHHHHH SHE COMING NOW BYE.

This was a good movie. Boris and Jack make quite a team. The sound sucked though. Had to turn up my speakers then got blared out on the commercials. Anyone notice it was the same castle and ocean scene from the Pit and the Pendolum?

From the summary and the two top reviews, I'm assuming this will be a good flic. I'll revise and elaborate afterwards.

As legend has it, Shlockmeister Producer Director Roger Corman, king of the cheap quickies, had three days left on a contract signed with Boris, and knocked this one out in an evening, with the rest of the crew and the castle rm his previous shoot the week before. Judicious use of stock footage, and ad libs by Jack Nicholson and his wife (!) Sandra Knight, a bravura performance by Dick Miller, a show up by non other than Francis Ford Coppola, and bad guy Leo Gordon as co author, what do you get? About 70 minutes of color photography classic shlock. My cousin begged me to go to the movies to see it, and I begged off much to my dismay. Five years later it was playing on WPIX Channel 11 in NY. Stein's score is above the best, as it is hard to knock period classic music.Amazingly, Nicholson is interesting, and the doomed charactrers are, well, doomed in the traditional mold. And mold they do.So sit back with some low cholesterol treat, and clog some arteries watching The Terror. Fine locations make for ready made richness, and are a fine substitute for story.Enjoy!