Terror in the Aisles

Infobox_Film
name = Terror in the Aisles


caption = original film poster
director = Andrew J. Kuehn
producer = Andrew J. Kuehn
Stephen Netburn
starring = Donald Pleasence
Nancy Allen
writer = Margaret Doppelt
music = John Beal
cinematography = John A. Alonzo
distributor = Kaleidoscope Films
T.E.M. Programs International-Universal
released = October 26, 1984
runtime = 84 min.
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:49138
imdb_id = 0088249

"Terror in the Aisles" is a 1984 horror film documentary featuring clips from "Friday the 13th", "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", "Halloween", "Halloween II", "Alien", "John Carpenter's The Thing", "The Shining", etc. The film is hosted by Donald Pleasence and Nancy Allen. The original music score is composed by John Beal.

Plot summary

Director Andrew J. Kuehn has excerpted brief segments of terror and suspense in a wide variety of horror films and strung them together with added commentary, as well as some enacted narrative, to create a compilation of fright-inducing effects. Hosts Donald Pleasence and Nancy Allen provide the commentary on topics such as "sex and terror" ("Dressed to Kill", "Klute"), loathsome villains ("Nighthawks", "Vice Squad"), and the occult ("Carrie", "The Exorcist", "The Omen", "Rosemary's Baby", "The Shining"). Legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock presents his concepts of how to create suspense in a clip from "Alfred Hitchcock: Men Who Made The Movies", in one of the better segments of the anthology.

Archival appearances

* Bud Abbott
* Brooke Adams
* Alan Arkin
* Susan Backlinie
* Martin Balsam
* Ralph Bellamy
* Nina Blackwood
* Linda Blair
* Wilford Brimley
* Marilyn Burns
* Ellen Burstyn
* Michael Caine
* John Cassavetes
* Lon Chaney, Jr.
* Lou Costello
* Joan Crawford
* Richard Crenna
* Jamie Lee Curtis
* Keith David
* Bette Davis
* Brad Davis
* Angie Dickinson
* Griffin Dunne
* Shelley Duvall
* Clint Eastwood
* Morgan Fairchild
* Mia Farrow
* William Finley
* Jane Fonda
* John Gavin
* Jeff Goldblum
* Gerrit Graham
* Cary Grant
* Rosey Grier
* Charles Hallahan
* Gunnar Hansen
* Debbie Harry
* Rutger Hauer
* Wings Hauser
* Tippi Hedren
* Dustin Hoffman
* Michael Ironside
* Amy Irving
* Carol Kane
* Boris Karloff
* Grace Kelly

* Persis Khambatta
* Adrienne King
* Elsa Lanchester
* Martin Landau
* Piper Laurie
* Ari Lehman
* Janet Leigh
* Jerry Lewis
* Bela Lugosi
* Zoe Tamerlis Lund
* Dean Martin
* Kevin McCarthy
* Leo McKern
* Teri McMinn
* Vera Miles
* Ray Milland
* Jason Miller
* David Naughton
* Jack Nicholson
* Laurence Olivier
* Heather O'Rourke
* Gregory Peck
* Anthony Perkins
* Christopher Plummer
* Vincent Price
* Lee Remick
* Kurt Russell
* Roy Scheider
* P. J. Soles
* Sissy Spacek
* Sylvester Stallone
* Harry Dean Stanton
* Amy Steel
* Andrew Stevens
* Catherine Mary Stewart
* Donald Sutherland
* Max von Sydow
* Rod Taylor
* Robert Hudson Walker
* Dee Wallace-Stone
* David Warner
* Jessica Walter
* Sigourney Weaver
* Jack Weston
* Billie Whitelaw
* James Woods

Films shown

*"Bride of Frankenstein" (1935)
*"The Ghost Breakers" (1940)
*"Hold That Ghost" (1941)
*"The Wolf Man" (1941)
*"Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948)
*"Strangers on a Train" (1951)
*"Scared Stiff" (1953)
*"Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954)
*"This Island Earth" (1955)
*"To Catch a Thief" (1955)
*"Tarantula" (1955)
*"The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957)
*"The Deadly Mantis" (1957)
*"The Fly" (1958)
*"Psycho" (1960)
*"Konga" (1961)
*"King Kong vs. Godzilla" (1962)
*"What Ever Happened to Baby Jane" (1962)
*"The Birds" (1963)
*"Fahrenheit 451" (1966)
*"Wait Until Dark" (1967)
*"Rosemary's Baby" (1968)
*"Night of the Living Dead" (1968)
*"Klute" (1971)
*"Play Misty for Me" (1971)
*"Frogs" (1972)
*"Frenzy" (1972)
*"The Thing with Two Heads" (1972)
*"Sisters" (1973)
*"The Exorcist" (1973)
*"The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974)
*"Phantom of the Paradise" (1974)
*"Bug" (1975)
*"Jaws" (1975)
*"Grizzly" (1976)
*"The Food of the Gods" (1976)
*"The Omen" (1976)
*"Marathon Man" (1976)

*"Carrie" (1976)
*"Suspiria" (1977)
*"The Car" (1977)
*"The Fury" (1978)
*"Jaws 2" (1978)
*"Eyes of Laura Mars" (1978)
*"Midnight Express" (1978)
*"The Legacy" (1978)
*"Dawn of the Dead" (1978)
*"The Silent Partner" (1978)
*"Halloween" (1978)
*"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978)
*"Alien" (1979)
*"The Brood" (1979)
*"Dracula" (1979)
*"Nightwing" (1979)
*"When a Stranger Calls" (1979)
*"The Fog" (1980)
*"Friday the 13th" (1980)
*"The Shining" (1980)
*"Dressed to Kill" (1980)
*"Alligator" (1980)
*"Scanners" (1981)
*"The Howling" (1981)
*"The Funhouse" (1981)
*"Ms. 45" (1981)
*"Friday the 13th Part 2" (1981)
*"An American Werewolf in London" (1981)
*"Halloween II" (1981)
*"Nighthawks" (1981)
*"Saturday the 14th" (1981)
*"The Seduction" (1982)
*"Vice Squad" (1982)
*"Cat People" (1982)
*"Poltergeist" (1982)
*"John Carpenter's The Thing" (1982)
*"Alone in the Dark" (1982)
*"Videodrome" (1983)
*"Firestarter" (1984)

Trivia

* The television network version has additional film clips added for network viewings as well as replacing violent clips from other films. The additional film clips are from the films: "The Car", "Dracula", "Firestarter", "Frenzy", "The Legacy", etc.
* The film has been frequently featured on the cable television channel "Chiller" since its premiere in 2007. Also the film has yet to be released in the United States on DVD (Region 1).

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