OVERALL: Draw

Between the R2 French Columbia release for the minor extras and the bonus feature and the US Virgil Films release for the widescreen transfer and 5.1 sound. All other versions are reported to be very bad quality.

GENERAL NOTES:
Roger Corman shot the bulk of the film in four days, but the second-unit work was filmed over a nine month period by five directors, Francis Ford Coppola, Dennis Jakob, Monte Hellman, Jack Nicholson, and Jack Hill.

When this film was originally shown in cinemas the film was projected at a ratio of 1.85:1, all the versions of the film that appear on DVD (except for the Virgil Films release) are unmatted 4:3 transfers and therefore show more image at the top and bottom of the screen. A more recent master created for screenings on the TCM was matted to 1.85:1.

In 1990, actor Dick Miller, who plays Karloff's major domo, was hired to shoot new scenes to use as a framing sequence for an overseas version of The Terror. Under this scheme, the main action of the film is presented in flashback. This was done for Corman to establish some sort of copyright in the movie (outside of his contract work at American International, few of Corman's independent movies from the early sixties were registered for copyright originally).

CUTS:

• R0 America- D Vision - No cuts - original theatrical version
• R0 America- HD Cinema Classics - No cuts - original theatrical version (79:11 NTSC).
• R0 America- Master Movies - No cuts - original theatrical version
• R0 America- Platinum Disc Corporation - No cuts - original theatrical version
• R0 Best of the Worst America- Mill Creek Home Entertainment - No cuts - original theatrical version (78:44 NTSC).
• R0 Elvira's Movie Macabre: Mega Movie Marathon America- Entertainment One - No cuts - - original theatrical version with Elvira intro and epilogue (89:27 NTSC).
• R0 Special Edition America- United American Video - No cuts - original theatrical version
• R0 Finland- Finnkino - No cuts - original theatrical version (79:08 NTSC->PAL).
• R0 Vintage Horror Box Germany- Schröder Media - No cuts - original theatrical version
  (76:01 PAL).
• R0 Greece- Silver Star - No cuts – The 1990 extended version(89:23 PAL).
• R2 France- Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment - No Cuts - original theatrical version .
• R2 France- One Plus One - No cuts - original theatrical version
• R2 France- Wild Side Video - No cuts - original theatrical version (79:30 PAL).
• R2 Germany- E-M-S New Media - No cuts – The 1990 extended version (90:41 PAL).
• R2 United Kingdom- Prism Direct/Leisure - No cuts – The 1990 extended version. This version also restores the original BBFC theatrical cuts (90:47 NTSC-to-PAL).

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Comparison added by Noor_Razzak on 27/12/04
Comparison last updated by Eric_Cotenas on 27/11/23

UPDATE LOG:

26/04/11: Addition of the R0 US Virgil Films release and minor fixes.
04/04/14: Addition of the R0 Finnish and German edition.
07/01/16: R2 UK added (90s extended version) + ASIN & notes added regarding the 1990 version.
05/02/17: Added US Elvira, Greece, France Wild Side.
28/02/17: Added US Mill Creek.