The Terror

Bratislav1.0

The film, which runs for just over an hour, was shot by five directors. The story behind the film's creation is far more interesting than the movie itself. Watching it now is absolutely unbearable; it frankly makes no sense and and in fact it has no story. The only redeeming features are the set design and a young Jack Nicholson. It is worth watching only out of curiosity about how Coppola, Hellman, and Nicholson got their start in the film industry, but it's better to just read the Wikipedia article on how this movie was made, it will be much more engaging.

James (Schaffrillas)2.0

Look I want to like Roger Corman movies but William and Hal keep showing me the bad ones

🎃 Count DuLacula 🦇3.0

Helene: I am possessed of the dead.Andre: You're a warm living woman. Who has told you these things?Helene: The dead.A ridiculous film that manages to somehow end up with a coherent plot despite everything working against it. The story goes that Roger Corman decided to make another film as soon as he finished The Raven with it's left over sets and two of it's stars, being Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson. He filmed everything he needed with Karloff in three or four days while the rest of the film was finished over a period of nine months... by four or five other directors!The other directors included Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Nicholson, Monte Hellman, Jack Hill and, depending on what source you check, Karloff's stunt double Dennis Jakob also did a bit of directing. The film might not be defined as "good" by any stretch, but it is certainly never boring and almost worth a watch for it's directing oddity alone. I have to admit that I enjoyed it's absurdity quite a bit.