THE TERRIBLE PEOPLE (1960) see Bande des Schreckens

TERRIFIED (1962/Bern-Field/Crown Int.) 66mins. BW.
Credits: Dir: Lew Landers; Prod. & Sc: Richard Bernstein; Ph: Curt Fetters; Ed: Rex Lipton; Art: Rudi Feld; Mu: Harry Thomas; Mus: Michael Anderson.
Cast: Rod Lauren, Steve Drexel, Tracy Olsen, Stephen Roberts, Sherwood Keith, Barbara Luddy, Robert Towers, Denver Pyle, Ben Frank, Angelo Rossitto, Harry Lauter.
A hooded, killer ventriloquist stalks a ghost town where some teenagers are trying to solve a mystery in which a victim was buried alive.
Some grisly scenes include a burial in cement.

THE TERROR (1963/AIP./Filmgroup) 81mins. US.
Aka: THE NIGHT OF TERROR.
Credits: Dir. & Prod: Roger Corman; Ex.Prod: Harvey Jacobson; A.Prod: Francis Coppola; Sc: Leo Gordon & Jack Hill; Ph: Jack Nicholaub; Ed: Stuart O'Brien; Art: Daniel Haller; Mus: Ronald Stein.
Cast: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dorothy Neuman, Jonathan Haze, Dick Miller.
"From the depths of an evil mind came a diabolical plan of torture...unconcievable!...unbelievable!"
A young officer, (Nicholson), separated from his Napoleonic regiment sees a beautiful young woman, (Knight), who keeps disappearing whenever he approaches her. Now obsessed with the woman, the officer goes to a nearby castle where he learns from Baron Von Leppe, (Karloff), that she is the ghost of the Baroness who died twenty years ago. It becomes apparent that a local witch is controlling the woman to try and make the Baron commit suicide as revenge for killing her son Eric and the Baroness when he found them together all those years ago. What the witch doesn't know is that the Baron is actually her son who has been impersonating the Baron, guilty for the real Baron's death all those years ago. While the crypt becomes flooded, the officer saves the girl from the chaos that kills everyone involved. But after dragging her to safety, the girl melts.
Made in three days, this confusing tale used the sets created for The Raven while Corman still had Karloff under contract for two more days. Scripts were given to Coppola, Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, Dennis Jacob and Jack Nicholson, but even though all of them took a turn at directing only Corman got the credit.

TERROR BENEATH THE SEA (1966) see Kaitei Daisenso

TERROR CASTLE (1963) see La Vergine di Norimberga

TERROR CREATURES FROM THE GRAVE (1965) see Cinque Tombe Per un Medium

TERROR EN ELESPACIO (1965) see Terrore Nella Spazio

THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE (1958) see It! The Terror From Beyond Space

TERROR FROM THE SUN (1959) see The Hideous Sun Demon

TERROR IN THE CRYPT (1963) see Maldicion de los Karnstein

TERROR IN THE STREETS (1970) see Akuma Ga Yondeiru

DAS TESTAMENT DES DR. MABUSE (1962/CCC Filmkunst/Thunder Pictures) 88mins. Germany.
Aka: TERROR OF THE MAD DOCTOR; TERROR OF DOCTOR MABUSE.
Credits: Dir: Werner Klinger; Prod: Wolf Brauner; Sc: Ladislas Fodor & Robert Adolf Stemmle; Ph: Albert Benitz; Ed: Walter Wischniewsky; Art: Helmut Mentwig & Paul Markwitz; Mus: Raimund Rosenberger. Based on the characters created by Norbert Jacques.
Cast: Wolfgang Priess, Walter Rilla, Gert Fröbe, Senta Berger, Helmut Schmid, Charles Regnier.
The governor of an asylum, (Rilla), is being influenced and hypnotised by the evil Dr. Mabuse from beyond the grave. The police try to learn the truth behind the master criminal's impossible return.
A remake of Fritz Lang's 1933 Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse.

THE TESTAMENT OF DR. CORDELIER (1959/R.T.F./Sofirad) France.
Aka: EXPERIMENT IN EVIL.
Credits: Dir. Prod. & Sc: Jean Renoir; Ph: Georges Leclerc; Art: Marcel-Louis Dieulot; Mus: Joseph Kosma.
From "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault, Micheline Gary, Teddy Bilis, Michel Vitoid, Jean Topart, Jacques Dannoville, André Certes, Jean-Pierre Granval, Jacqueline Morane, Gaston Modot.
The kindly doctor Cordelier turns into the evil Opale, (Barrault).

THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (1962) see Testament des Dr. Mabuse

EL TESTAMENTO DEL FRANKENSTEIN (1964) Spain.
Credits: Dir: José Luis Madrid.
Cast: Gerard Landry, George Vallis.

THEATRE OF DEATH (1966/Pennea Prod./Smedley-Aston) 91mins. UK.
Aka: BLOOD FIEND.
Credits: Dir: Samuel Gallu; Prod: Michael Smedley-Ashton; Ex.Prod: William Gell; Sc: Ellis Kadison & Roger Marshall; Ph: Gilbert Taylor; Ed: Barry Vince; Art: Peter Proud; Mu: Jill Carpenter; Mus: Elizabeth Lutyens.
Cast: Christopher Lee, Julian Glover, Lelia Goldoni, Jenny Till, Evelyn Laye, Ivor Dean, Joseph Furst, Betty Woolfe, Leslie Handford, Fraser Kerr, Dilys Watling, Steve Plytas, Miki Iveria, Terence Soall, Esther Anderson, Peter Cleoll, Suzanne Owens, Julie Mendez.
A series of gory "vampire" murders surround a Grand Guignol theatre for which the ruthless director Phillipe Darvas, (Lee), is suspected. However, the real culprit is pretty Nicole, (Till), who has been hypnotised by Darvas to live with him so he can use her blood-drinking story for a play that he is writing. The play will also include the time when Nicole, as a little girl was trapped in an avalanche and force-fed blood from her mother's boyfriend to survive. When Nicole believes Darvas knows too much, she kills him, leaving the police with no suspects when the murders continue. Eventually the officers trap Nicole at the theatre where she is impaled by a spear that is accidentally thrust through the floor by the performers in the Voodoo play above her.
An unmemorable gothic murder mystery with an unconvincing and disposable cast, however Lee's performance and Gallu's weird camera angles remain enjoyable.

THEM! (1954/Warner) 94mins. BW. US.
Credits: Dir: Gordon Douglas; Prod: David Weisbart; Sc: Ted Sherdeman; Ph: Sid Hickox; Ed: Thomas Reilly; Art: Stanley Fleischer; Des: G.W. Berntsen; Sfx: Ralph Ayers; Sound Fx: William Mueller & Francis J. Scheid; Mu: Gordon Bau; Mus: Bronislau Kaper. From a story by George Worthing Yates.
Cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens, Sean McClory, Chris Drake, Sandy Descher, Mary Ann Hokanson, Don Shelton, Fess Parker, Olin Howlin, Ann Doran, Leonard Nimoy, Larry Dobkin, William Schallert, Dub Taylor.
"Kill one and two others take its place! Don't turn your back or you're doomed! And don't tell anyone what Them are!"
"When man entered the atomic age, he opened the door in a new world. What we eventually find in that new world...nobody can predict." - Dr. Medford (Gwenn).
A young girl, (Descher), is found wandering the Nevada desert by police who discover that her family have been killed by some unknown creature and the only item stolen is sugar. Police Sergeant Ben Patterson, (Whitmore), is joined by FBI. Agent Robert Graham, (Arness), to investigate the strange events for which the only clue is the little girl's shocked scream "them!" Entomologist Dr. Harold Medford, (Gwenn), and his daughter Pat, (Weldon), discover that a giant breed of ants have developed after the numerous 1945 atomic bomb tests that took place in the desert. After locating and destroying the giant ant's nest, the team is horrified to discover that a queen ant and its mate have flown away. The male who will die anyway is killed when it lands on a ship out to sea, but the Queen is located with other ants hatched from her eggs in the Los Angeles sewers.
An expertly directed science fiction film, with an eerie desert location and a good ending.
Originally this was to be filmed in colour and 3-D, but the studio head, Jack Warner decided the project would not be commercial enough and threatened the producers with jobs at Republic studios if they did not adhere to his decision. The film became 1954's top box office draw.
Nimoy appears briefly at a teletype machine.

THESE ARE THE DAMNED (1962) see The Damned

THEY CAME FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1956) see Invasion of the Body Snatchers

THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE (1967/Amicus/Embassy) 85mins. UK.
Credits: Dir: Freddie Francis; Prod: Max J. Rosenberg & Milton Subotsky; Sc: Milton Subotsky; Ph: Norman Warwick; Ed: Peter Musgrave; Art: Don Mingaye & Scott Slimon; Des: Bill Constable; Models: Bowie Films; Mu: Bunty Phillips; Mus: James Stevens. From "The Gods Hate Kansas" by Joseph Millard.
Cast: Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne, Bernard Kay, Michael Gough, Maurice Good, Zia Mohyeddin, John Harvey, Geoffrey Wallace, Luanshya Greer, Diana King, Paul Bacon, Christopher Banks, Dermot Cathie, Norman Claridge, James Donnelly, Frank Forsythe, Katy Wild, Leonard Grahame, Michael Hawkins.
Aliens from a dying planet invade the earth by spreading plague, but one man is immune to their influence because of a metal plate in his head. The man helps the invaders recruit scientists studying meteors nearby to try and repair their ship that has crashed on the moon, allowing the aliens to return to their planet rather than die on alien soil.
A combination of ideas are muddled together to make this rather dull and confusing film.

THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN (1964/Crown International) 74mins. BW. Philippines.
Aka: MADMEN OF MANDORAS; THE AMAZING MR. H.
Credits: Dir: David Bradley; Prod: Carl Edwards; Sc: Richard Miles & Steve Bennett.
Cast: Walter Stocker, Audrey Claire, Scott Peters, Carlos Rivas, Nestor Paiva, John Holland, Dani Lynn, Marshall Reed. Voice: Bill Freed.
After a scientist is kidnapped, his daughter traces his whereabouts to the island of Mandoras where her father and other kidnapped scientists are working for a small group of Nazis who take their orders from the decapitated head of Adolf Hitler. The scientists are being forced to keep the head alive and search for an appropriate body to attach it to, while the Nazis prepare for world domination with a specially developed nerve gas.
An amusingly inept production that has gained some cult status in recent years despite the padded plot, incorrect Swastikas and the muddled editing that includes footage from a 1950 film nicely photographed by Stanley Cortez, greatly contrasting the cheap filming techniques of this production crew.
Filmed in America and the Philippines.

THIN AIR (1969) see The Bodystealers

THE THING (1951/Winchester Pictures/RKO.) 87mins. BW. US.
Aka: THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (UK).
Credits: Dir: Christian Nyby; Prod: Howard Hawks; A.Prod: Edward Lasker; Sc: Charles Lederer; Ph: Russell Harlan; Ed: Roland Gross; Art: Albert D'Agostino & John J. Hughes; Sets: Darrell Silvera & Williams Stevens; Sfx: Donald Steward; Ph.Fx: Linwood Dunn; Mu: Lee Greenway; Mus: Dimitri Tiomkin. From "Who Goes There?" by Don A. Stuart (John W. Campbell Jnr.).
Cast: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer, James Young, Dewey Martin, Robert Nichols, William Self, Eduard Franz, Sally Creighton, James Arness, Paul Frees, George Fenneman, John Dierkes, Tom Steele.
"I bring you warning - to everyone of you listening to the sound of my voice. Tell the world, tell this to everyone wherever they are: Watch the skies, watch everywhere, keep looking. Watch the skies!"
A team of scientists at an isolated Arctic research centre discover a flying saucer buried deep in the ice. When they attempt to blast it from the ice, the scientists accidentally destroy the craft, but discover the remains of its occupant encased in a block of ice. The frozen creature, (Arness), is kept at their camp, but when the ice accidentally thaws, the creature escapes killing two scientists in the process. After being attacked by dogs, the remaining members manage to grow little creatures from the alien's severed arm. Unfortunately because the vegetable like alien is able to reproduce while feeding on blood, the scientists realise the creature could threaten the whole world. Resolving to destroy the alien, the scientists prepare a trap wired with high voltage electricity.
The first monster from outer space on film appears in this science fiction classic that inspired many imitators and kicked off the paranoid '50's invaders from space craze. Slightly marred by the unusual and continual rapid fire dialogue with some of the characters even talking over each other.
Nyby probably had directorial assistance from Hawks himself or even Orson Welles.
Partly filmed in the Glacier National Park and at a Los Angeles ice storage plant.

THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951) see The Thing

THE THIRST OF BARON BLOOD (1971) see Orrori del Castello di Norimberga

13 (1966) see Eye of the Devil

13 GHOSTS (1960/Castle/Columbia) 88mins. BW. with two colour sequences. US.
Credits: Dir. & Prod: William Castle; Sc: Robb White; Ph: Joseph Biroc; Ed: Edwin Bryant; Art: Carey Odell; Ph.Fx: Butler-Glouner Inc.; Mu: Ben Lane; Mus: Von Dexter.
Cast: Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner, Rosemary de Camp, Donald Woods, Margaret Hamilton, John Van Dreerlen.
Cyrus Zorba, a penniless museum curator, will only inherit his dead uncle's mansion if he lives there with his family, and discovers that apart from the housekeeper, (Hamilton), the mansion is run by twelve ghosts one of whom is the murdered spirit of Uncle Cyrus. While the family fears that the ghosts will demand one of them as the thirteenth spirit, a scheming lawyer, (Milne), secretly responsible for Uncle Cyrus' murder, tries to frighten Cyrus' family away so he can find a fortune hidden on the estate. The ghosts execute the lawyer when he tries to murder one of Cyrus' family and leave the mansion after showing Cyrus where the treasure is hidden.
A film that relies entirely on a gimmick that Castle announced as "Illusion-O". Each cinema patron was given a pair of glasses with red and blue lenses. The red gel enabled the audience to see the ghosts of a screaming woman, a clutching hand, a floating head, a flaming skeleton, a knife thrower and his wife, an executioner and his head, a hanging woman, a lion and a headless lion tamer and Uncle Cyrus. The blue gel made the ghosts disappear if the shock became too much for the viewer.