Terror

Terror (1979)

It Buried For A Hundred Years... But Never Laid To Rest!

The descendants of a witch-hunting family and their close friends are stalked and killed by a mysterious entity.

Date of release
1979-10-26
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (51)
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Horror
Director
Norman J. Warren

Casting

Interesting facts

Terror is a 1978 British supernatural slasher film written by David McGillivray and directed by Norman J. Warren. It stars John Nolan and Carolyn Courage as two cousins who fall victim to a curse that a witch placed on their ancestors.

Production

Terror was director Norman J. Warren's second collaboration with producers Les and Moira Young and Richard Crafter, with whom he had made Satan's Slave (1976). According to Warren, Terror was conceived as a "fun horror film" intended solely to entertain. The plot was therefore kept simple, taking the form of a series of murder set pieces. Warren and others pitched ideas for various scenes, from which David McGillivray wrote a script.

Warren and his associates, who had struggled to obtain funding for their earlier films, used the box office revenue from Satan's Slave to finance the new film on their own. According to Warren, the budget "from script to answer print" was about £50,000 (roughly £300,000 in 2025).

While casting the film, Warren and associate producer Moira Young deliberately sought out new actors with no film experience. All the roles were cast in two months. The characters played by Glynis Barber and Elaine Ives-Cameron did not appear in the original script; they were written in because Warren and Young were impressed by the actresses' auditions and were determined to use them.

Terror was shot in four weeks in various locations around London and Surrey. Filming began on 5 June 1978. Both Warren and producer Les Young noted that due to the multiple locations, the logistics of the shoot were more complicated than those of Satan's Slave. The filming location for the Garrick residence was Admiral's Walk, the house of the Baron and Baroness DeVeuce in Pirbright; this had previously been the main location for Satan's Slave.

Scenes set at the Theatre Girls' Hostel were filmed at a nurses' hostel in Holland Park, while a club in Richmond supplied the location for the club where Ann works. James's office at Garrick Studios was represented by the actual office of production company Crystal Film Productions, based in Harlesden. Scenes set on the studio floor were filmed over two days at Acorn Studios in Barnes.

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