The Terror (1928 film)
The Terror is a 1928 early American slasher film written by Harvey Gates and directed by Roy Del Ruth, based on the play of the same name by Edgar Wallace. This was the second alltalking motion picture released by Warner Bros. The first was Lights of New York This film was also the first alltalking horror film made, using the Vitaphone soundondisc system.
In August 1928, Time said the film is better than The Lion and the Mouse, an alltalk picture of which May McAvoy, Alec Francis, two of the terrorized, are veterans. Three months later, John MacCormac, reporting from London for The New York Times upon the films UK premiere, wroteThe universal opinion of London critics is that The Terror is so bad that it is almost suicidal. They claim that it is monotonous, slow, dragging, fatiguing and boring, and I am not sure that I do not in large measure agree with them. What is more important, Edgar Wallace, who wrote the film, seems to agree with them also. Well, was his comment, I have never thought the talkies would be a serious rival to the stage. ........
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