Terror in the Aisles
Terror in the Aisles | |
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Original film poster | |
Directed by | Andrew J. Kuehn |
Produced by |
Andrew J. Kuehn Stephen Netburn |
Written by | Margery Doppelt |
Starring | |
Music by | John Beal |
Cinematography | John A. Alonzo |
Production company |
Kaleidoscope Films |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $10,004,817[1] |
Terror in the Aisles is a 1984 American documentary film about horror films featuring clips from Friday the 13th I and II, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween I and II, Jaws 1 and 2, Alien, John Carpenter's The Thing, The Shining and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and The Birds. The film is directed by Andrew J. Kuehn, and hosted by Donald Pleasence and Nancy Allen. The original music score is composed by John Beal.
Plot
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. Halloween actor Donald Pleasence and Dressed to Kill star Nancy Allen provide the commentary on topics such as "sex and terror" (Dressed to Kill, Klute, Ms. 45, The Seduction, When a Stranger Calls), loathsome villains (Dracula, Frankenstein, Friday the 13th Part 2 (although, surprisingly, not its 1980 original), Halloween I & II, Marathon Man, Nighthawks, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Touch of Evil, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Vice Squad, Wait Until Dark, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?), "natural terror" (Alligator, The Birds, Frogs, Jaws 1 & 2, Nightwing), the occult (An American Werewolf in London, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Omen, Carrie, The Fog, The Shining) and spoofs (Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Hold That Ghost, The Ghost Breakers, Scared Stiff, Phantom of the Paradise, Saturday the 14th). In one segment of the anthology, legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock presents his concepts of how to create suspense in a clip from Alfred Hitchcock: Men Who Made The Movies.
Release
The film was released theatrically in the United States by Universal Pictures in October 1984. The film grossed $10,004,817 at the box office.[1]
Home media
The film was released on VHS and CED Videodiscs by MCA Home Video in 1985.[2] The film's first time release to digital format was as a Special Feature on the 30th Anniversary Edition of Halloween II (1981) Blu-ray.[3] On October 15, 2012, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment released the film on DVD as part of its Universal Vault Series.
The film's DVD and Blu-ray release is presented in the same 1.85:1 aspect ratio of its original theatrical release, which also cropped any segments from other films that were originally produced using the anamorphic process.
Archival appearances
- Bud Abbott
- Brooke Adams
- Ana Alicia
- Alan Arkin
- Susan Backlinie
- Belinda Balaski
- Martin Balsam
- Adrienne Barbeau
- Ralph Bellamy
- Sidney Blackmer
- Nina Blackwood
- Linda Blair
- Wilford Brimley
- Richard Brooker
- Marilyn Burns
- Ellen Burstyn
- Michael Caine
- Veronica Cartwright
- John Cassavetes
- Lon Chaney Jr.
- Lou Costello
- Charles Cioffi
- Joan Crawford
- Richard Crenna
- Jamie Lee Curtis
- Keith David
- Bette Davis
- Brad Davis
- Angie Dickinson
- Faye Dunaway
- Griffin Dunne
- Shelley Duvall
- Clint Eastwood
- Morgan Fairchild
- Mia Farrow
- William Finley
- Jane Fonda
- John Gavin
- Jeff Goldblum
- Elliott Gould
- Gerrit Graham
- Cary Grant
- Rosey Grier
- Charles Hallahan
- Gunnar Hansen
- Jessica Harper
- Debbie Harry
- Rutger Hauer
- Wings Hauser
- Tippi Hedren
- Dustin Hoffman
- Ian Holm
- Season Hubley
- Michael Ironside
- Amy Irving
- Carol Kane
- Boris Karloff
- Grace Kelly
- Persis Khambatta
- Margot Kidder
- Dana Kimmell
- Adrienne King
- Yaphet Kotto
- Elsa Lanchester
- Stephen Lack
- Martin Landau
- Frank Langella
- Piper Laurie
- Janet Leigh
- Jerry Lewis
- Danny Lloyd
- Bela Lugosi
- Zoe Tamerlis Lund
- Dean Martin
- Kevin McCarthy
- Leo McKern
- Teri McMinn
- Vera Miles
- Ray Milland
- Jason Miller
- David Naughton
- Kate Nelligan
- Jack Nicholson
- Laurence Olivier
- Heather O'Rourke
- Patricia Owens
- Betsy Palmer
- 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
- Gary Swanson
- Max von Sydow
- Jessica Tandy
- Rod Taylor
- Robert Walker
- Dee Wallace
- Jessica Walter
- Sigourney Weaver
- Jack Weston
- Billie Whitelaw
- Billy Dee Williams
- 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)
- 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, Italy)
- The Silent Partner (1978)
- Piranha (1978)
- Halloween (1978)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
- Alien (1979)
- The Brood (1979)
- Prophecy (1979)
- Dracula (1979)
- Nightwing (1979)
- When a Stranger Calls (1979)
- Friday the 13th (1980)
- The Fog (1980)
- The Shining (1980)
- Dressed to Kill (1980)
- Alligator (1980)
- Scanners (1981)
- The Howling (1981)
- The Funhouse (1981)
- Ms. 45 (1981)
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (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)
- Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
- Vice Squad (1982)
- Cat People (1982)
- Poltergeist (1982)
- John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)
- Alone in the Dark (1982)
- Videodrome (1983)
- Firestarter (1984)
References
- 1 2 "Terror in the Aisles". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
- ↑ "Terror in the Aisles". IMDb. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
- ↑ ""HALLOWEEN II" Blu causes "TERROR IN THE AISLES"". Fangoria. Retrieved 21 July 2011.