The Terror

By: Anton Massopust III

The new TV series produced by Ridley Scott on AMC, The Terror, tells the story of two ships, The Terror and The Erebus, which become stuck in the ice while searching for the Northwest Passage during the mid-1800s. The Arctic ice entombs the two ships and they are unable to go forward or to go back home. One Captain, Sir John, is determined to find a way to get through the ice to get to the Northwest Passage. The other captain, Captain Francis, believes that they must find a way to be rescued or to escape.  On top of this, they discover an Inuit man and woman who say that if they don’t get out of the ice, they will disappear.  Some kind of creature stalks them below the ice and on top of it.

This series could become your new obsession as the claustrophobic places of the Arctic and within the closed quarters of the ship give you an uneasy feeling as if you are with them, and have nowhere to go.  What is interesting to note is that all of this was done on a sound stage; the ships, however, are real.  

There are only three episodes in on AMC and I am already interested to find out what happens next. In episode one, we find out how they were caught in the ice and see how the disagreement between the captains becomes direr as the situation worsens. In episode two, they find the two native people and realize something is stalking them. I won’t even tell you about episode three; you will have to watch for yourself.  If you love supernatural horror and a little bit of history you will love this, because, yes, much of this is based on a true story.