Review of Terror

Terror (1978)
4/10
Stock schlock horror movie with chills, tension , guts and supernatural events .
7 April 2022
A nifty supernatural shocker concerning the descendants of a witch hunting family and their close friends who are brutally stalked by a creepy curse . After 100 years , a man reveals in a film that his family killed a witch , then things go wrong. As friends who saw the movie are suddenly attacked by supernatural forces. And , eventualy , the coup of grace against protagonists taking place cruelly , resulting in fateful consequences . Have you ever felt an evil present all around you...?. One step beyond horror...It was buried a hundred years .. but never laid to rest !

Scary film with plenty of thrills , chills , grisly murders and lots of blood and gore by persistently cutting to lip-licking close-ups of slashed , beheaded or garroted throats . The plot is simple and plain , as a filmmaker inadvertently conjures a malevolent ancestral witch while making a film about his own family history . Then nasty things begin happening when he previews it at a party , including echoes of "William Friedkin's Exorcist" and "Dario Argento's Suspiria" with a large number of murders with no sense . It was originally double-billed with "Dracula's Dog" . It displays atmospheric camerawork and some acceptable dialogue providing momentary relief , but the film results to below average , tending to hang increasingly heavy over the proceedings . The cast is mostly unknown with exception for Glynis Barber, James Aubrey and Peter Mayhew , the famous Chewbacca .

The motion picture was lousily directed by Norman J. Warren , including a lot of flaws, gaps , failures and copying other films . Norman often used modern-day sets , horrifying scenes and working in low budgets .He directed some successful softcore sex movie as "Her Private Hell", and "Loving Feeling" . Later on , he made terror movies as "Satan's Slave" , starring Michael Gough . This was followed by "Terror" 1978, the twisted sci-fi terror "Prey" 1977 , the smutty softcore sex comedy romp "Outer Touch" 1979 and the Terror scifi "Horrorplanet" 1981 . Warren took a break from the horror genre by making the thrilling spy outing "GunPowder" 1986 . His last film to date was the dready terror clunker "Bloody New Year" 1987. This Terrror 1978 has rating 3.5/10 . Inferior and embarrassing horror movie .
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