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Terror in the Aisles.‘It’s a cut above the rest.’ is a 1984 American documentary film about horror films, including slasher films and crime thrillers. The film is directed by Andrew J. Kuehn, and hosted by Donald Pleasence and Nancy 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 movies 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, Halloween I & II, Marathon Man, Nighthawks, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Vice Squad, Wait Until Dark, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?), “natural terror“ (Alligator, The Birds, The Fly, The Food of the Gods, Frogs, Jaws 1 & 2, Konga, Nightwing), the occult (An American Werewolf in London, Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, The Omen, Carrie, The Fog, The Fury, The Howling, Poltergeist, 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 movie was released wide theatrically in the United States by Universal Pictures on October 26, 1984. The movie grossed $10,004,817 at the box office. Home media The movie was released on VHS and CED Videodiscs by MCA Home Video in 1985.[8] On September 13, 2011, the movie was released to digital format as a special feature on the 30th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray of Halloween II (1981). On October 15, 2012, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment released the movie on DVD as part of its Universal Vault Series. The movie’s DVD and Blu-ray release is presented in the same aspect ratio of its original theatrical release, which also cropped any segments from other movies that were originally produced using the anamorphic process. The number of terror, suspense, horror and thriller movie clips that are featured and shown from in this documentary totaled to seventy-eight clips. On October 13, 2020, the movie received its own Blu-ray release courtesy of Scream Factory. As with the previous releases, it was presented in its original aspect ratio; unlike the earlier releases, the Blu-ray includes all-new bonus features, including a new interview with Nancy Allen and the alternate broadcast television edit of the movie. 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) Sisters (1972) The Thing with Two Heads (1972) 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) Dawn of the Dead (1978, Italy) The Silent Partner (1978) Piranha (1978) Halloween (1978) The Legacy (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) Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) The Postman Always Rings Twice (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) Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) Creepshow (1982) Vice Squad (1982) Cat People (1982) Poltergeist (1982) The Thing (1982) Alone in the Dark (1982) Videodrome (1983)
