Terror (1978) Norman J. Warren
Terror (1978)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK | Director: Norman J. Warren
Language: English | Subtitles: English (Optional, embedded in Mkv file)
Aspect ratio: Widescreen 1.85:1 | Length: 84mn
Bdrip H264 Mkv - 1280x720 - 23.976fps - 1.72gb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141897/
Audio 2: Commentary with Director Norman J. Warren
and Writer David McGillivray
Audio 2: Commentary with Director Norman J. Warren
and Writer David McGillivray
Royal ancestors feel the wrath of the curse of the condemned witch Mad
Dolly, who spews forth her prophecy while she is burned at the stake.
The victims suffer death by having their heads removed in various
fashions, getting their limbs caught in animal traps, knife wounds, and
other methods of medieval torture.
When
Norman J.Warren (auteur of such shrill, purposely gruesome films as
Inseminoid) and exploitation stalwart David McGillivray got together in
the late seventies to create this low-budget shocker, the end result
could only be a solid winner, and TERROR delivers the goods.
It's not
for all tastes, but the effective atmosphere (Warren had obviously seen a
few Dario Argento films, which helps) and the well-staged scenes of
death and supernatural mayhem in the last half of the film are worth the
price of admission alone. It's certainly head and shoulders above the
'typical' British horror films of the day - such as Alan Birkinshaw's
atrocious KILLER'S MOON and THE LEGACY, a tedious schlock-fest in which
Who vocalist Roger Daltrey dies during a trachaeotomy to remove a
fishbone he never ate(!) - and the widescreen photography, coupled with
appropriately garish colours courtesy of (one assumes) outmoded film
stock, looks superb.
There's also a neat cameo from Milton Reid, one of
those "I know his face, but what's his name?" actors if ever there was
one, and a decapitation set-piece that curiously plays like a low-budget
homage to David Warner's grisly death in THE OMEN, whilst pointing the
way forward to the lift-shaft carnage in that film's lackluster sequel.
This is a solid-gold classic example of the kind of film that would
never get made nowadays, anywhere, and will undoubtedly bring back fond
memories of late-night horror double features down at the local fleapit
for British viewers of a certain age.
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