People are voting emotionally.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

'The Terror' is low budgeted Roger Corman's quickie. The film got made only because Corman had opportunity to use sets left over from previous AIP productions and Boris Karloff for two days. The film is often linked with Corman's Poe themed series, but 'The Terror' is not based on any Poe's stories.In a year 1806 a French Army officer Andre Duvalier (Jack Nicholson) gets separated from his troops and gets lost. After meeting a beautiful woman named Helene (Sandra Knight) on the beach, he starts to investigate who the mysterious woman is. Duvalier finds himself as a guest in the castle of Baron von Leppe (Boris Karloff) and learns that girl on the beach is like two drops of water with Baron's wife Ilsa who died twenty years ago. And all sorts of mysterious things start to happen.When reading about Karloff's memories about making the movie, I think that this much story was actually written when Corman showed the script to him. There are many interesting scenes and nice acting, but all together the film was quite a mess. After editing was done Corman had to go back and film a scene between Nicholson and Dick Miller with them explaining the plot.Not the best film, but curiously interesting enough to check it out. The film which production is much more interesting story than the actual film itself.And it stars Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson and Dick Miller. With these three, count me in.

This is, at times, a decent effort to tell a story. But when budgets get into the mix, things fall apart. I believe this was Nicholson's first film. Roger Corman is the director and how the two hooked up, I don't know. What I do know is that there are so many plots and subplots and errant visuals that half the time we don't know what is going on. I decided years ago that I would watch Karloff and Nicholson do their individual things and not worry about being fulfilled cinematically. They are both classic muggers for the camera. This is a ghost/witch story with people dying and the wrong people accused of killing them and a crazy castle. On and on and on. The film, which is normal length, seems about five hours long.

Jack Nicholson plays a French soldier who becomes lost and meets a mysterious woman but she disappears into the ocean. Then there's some stuff with a bird and an old woman. Then Jack finds the castle of Boris Karloff where he sees the girl again. Boris and his servant act like they don't know what he's talking about but Jack is persistent. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense and the plot is a mess but it's still very interesting and hard to stop watching. This is a rather famous Roger Corman movie that has several different urban legends surrounding its production, most of which boil down to this: Corman was cheap so he used leftover sets and/or leftover budget from The Raven to film this one quickly. Whatever the truth is, it's a fascinating movie with many obvious flaws that it manages to overcome and still be an entertaining film. Great opening credits, too.

Boris Karloff , Jack Nickolson, need I say more,, a man is lost at sea,, wakes up and sees a woman,,, then she disappears,, then re appears. at first he thinks he is having visions,, but soon he learns that she is real,, after he follows her,, he tracks her to this lowly castle where she appears in a window. later he learns that she is a Baroness,, but apparently she's been dead for 2 decades,,, so he decides to investigate,, he ends up in the castle under the care of an elderly woman,, now he has to find the Baroness,, and eventually meet up with the evil Baron,, as played by Boris Karloff,,, not a bad watch at all,, I liked it,, it's a b movie,, with no expectations,,,