Our Take

The Terror (1963) - Roger Corman took a few spare days, some leftover sets from 'The Raven,' and a legendary Boris Karloff to craft this eerie, disjointed gothic fever dream. It’s a haze of salt spray, crumbling stone, and a young Jack Nicholson looking like he just stepped off a surfboard into a haunted nightmare. The plot is a tangled mess of ghosts and revenge, but the atmosphere is thick enough to choke a horse. It’s a beautiful, accidental artifact of drive-in cinema history that smells of sea rot and old-world madness.