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Mar 4, 2021 · Ridley Scott ’s acclaimed horror series The Terror has finally arrived on UK screens, nearly three years after debuting in the US. The programme, airing here on BBC Two, tells the story of an...
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Mar 3, 2021 · The Terror is a criminally overlooked horror drama that got missed by lots of people when it first aired in 2018. Set in the Arctic Circle in 1847 and inspired by real events, The Terror charts the treacherous journey of polar explorers to survive in the unthinkable conditions in the frozen north.
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Aug 19, 2024 · The Terror is a horror anthology series that delves into real and haunting historical events, like the doomed Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin. Captain Franklin's ill-fated journey to find the Northwest Passage ended tragically, with both ships becoming icebound and the crew disappearing.
Sep 1, 2024 · The ominous and downright unsettling 2018 supernatural horror series The Terror is based on the Dan Simmons novel of the same name and is a dramatized retelling of Franklin's lost expedition,...
- You Will See The Creature eventually.
- The Brits Should’Ve Listened to The locals.
- It Was Actually Blisteringly Hot For Part of The Filming.
- The Boats Cross Water, Even When It’S Frozen.
- The Crew Members Are Another Terror.
- Menzies Needed A New Show After Outlander.
- Harris Has Another Project Lined Up: Carnival Row.
Now that they’ve ruled out bears, Menzies and Harris could speak freely about the creature. Yes, it’s a monster, but it’s scarier when you don’t see it. “Definitely we ascribe to the adage, don’t show the monster,” Menzies said. So, come to The Terrorfor the creature. Stay for the drama. “It’s also not a creature feature either,” Harris said. “That...
You saw the Inuit woman in the trailer. That’s Lady Silence (Nive Nielsen), who comes across the British ship with her father. These officers think they’re gonna take over the Arctic. If they’d just listened to the Inuits, they might’ve had a chance. “Part of the idea of the show is this clash of societies,” Harris said. “There’s British culture an...
When The Terrorfilmed in Budapest, the temperatures were appropriately Arctic. When they got to Croatia, that’s when the acting had to kick in. “We had some very sweaty days on Croatian islands where the sun was beating down and we had to pretend to be freezing our asses off,” Menzies said. “They had to come in and mop us down between takes.” The t...
The trailer showed a glimpse of the crew dragging boats across the ice too. They don’t have to pull the entire Terror across the ice, but they don’t get to stop just because the water froze over. “The crazy thing they do is they have to abandon ship and they put all of their supplies in these boats,” Harris said. “Although at that point they’re stu...
As if creatures, ice, and conflict with the locals weren’t enough problems, the captains had to contend with their own crew. At first, corporal punishment does the trick. Crozier whips a sailor to make an example out of him. Once the crew sees a creature, will they really defer to their human captain? “Controlling that number of men in such a small...
Fans of Outlanderwere sorry to see both Black Jack Randall and Frank Randall go. If they read the books, they knew it was coming, though. So Menzies was on the lookout for a new role. “Yes, my exit from that show was in line with what’s in the books,” Menzies said. “Obviously, I did the best part of four years on Outlander. It was a big part of my ...
Harris already has another show lined up: Carnival Row, an original fantasy series for Amazon. Set in an alternate world with only two continents, Harris plays Absolom Breakspear. “I’m the political head of this one city state that’s fighting for control over this new land we’ve discovered with all these riches and all these amazing, fantastical cr...
Mar 3, 2021 · The result is a strange, unsettling, gruesome study of men pushed to their limits, mixing psychological horror and the supernatural with attention to historical detail.
Aug 20, 2024 · In The Terror’s case, the events of the show are based on Franklin’s lost expedition, but offer a fictionalized answer as to what happened to the crews of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.
