Terror in the Aisles

Terror in the Aisles
Original film poster
Directed by	Andrew J. Kuehn
Produced by	Andrew J. Kuehn Stephen Netburn
Written by	Margery Doppelt
Starring	Donald Pleasence Nancy Allen
Music by	John Beal
Cinematography	John A. Alonzo
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	October 26, 1984 (1984-10-26)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$10,004,817

Terror in the Aisles is a 1984 documentary film about horror films featuring clips from Friday the 13th I and/or 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 hosted by Donald Pleasence and Nancy Allen. The original music score is composed by John Beal.

1 Plot
2 Release
3 Archival appearances
4 Films shown
5 References
6 External links

Plot [edit]

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 (Marathon Man, Nighthawks, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Touch of Evil, Vice Squad, Wait Until Dark, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?), "natural terror" (Alligator, The Birds, Frogs, Jaws^{[disambiguation needed]} (1 and 2), Nightwing) and the occult (An American Werewolf in London, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Omen, Carrie, The Shining). 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 [edit]

Rare for a documentary about horror films, the film was released theatrically in the United States by Universal Pictures in October 1984. It grossed $10,004,817 at the box office.^[1]

The film was released on VHS by MCA Home Video in 1985.^[2] The film is currently available, for the first time on a digital format, as a Special Feature on the 30th Anniversary Edition of Halloween II (1981) Blu-ray.^[3] On October 15, 2012, Universal released the film on DVD as part of its Universal Vault Series.