The Terror (1928)

Directed by

Roy Del Ruth

Genre

horror film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A killer is on the loose in an isolated English country house during a storm. The guests are trapped inside as they try to figure out who among them is the murderer.

creepyold-fashionedtenseeeriestagedmysterioustheatrical

What happens

The Terror is a lost 1928 American pre-Code horror film written by Harvey Gates and directed by Roy Del Ruth, based on the 1927 play of the same name by Edgar Wallace. It was the second "all-talking" feature film released by Warner Bros. Pictures, following Lights of New York. It was also the first all-talking horror film, made using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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