TheExpatriate700 Terror in the Aisles is a compilation of clips from various horror movies, focusing primarily on works from the 1970s and early 1980s. Although it was produced by Universal, it casts a wide net, featuring Friday the 13th and other franchises from different studios.The film is a rather bland appreciation of the modern horror genre. Donald Pleasance and Nancy Allen provide adequate narration, although they don't offer any real insights. Furthermore, all the movie does is show clips, without offering any analysis of why these movies scare us.Furthermore, some of the films excerpted seem rather odd choices. For instance, there are numerous clips from the Sylvester Stallone film Nighthawks, never mind the fact that it is an action film. This kind of sloppiness undermines the film as a whole.

Michael_Elliott Terror in the Aisles (1984) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Donald Pleasence and Nancy Allen host this documentary telling (and showing) us why horror and suspense films are so important. Both actors are sitting in a theater where they add a few comments before showing us clips to dozens of movies including Halloween, King Kong vs. Godzilla, Play Misty for Me, The Ting, Sisters, Night of the Living Dead, Rosemary's Baby, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Friday the 13th, The Exorcist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Alligator, Scanners, The Shining, Alien, The Howling, Firestarter, Alone in the Dark and countless others. I think a nostalgia level is going to be the biggest highlight for some people on this one. For one, it's doubtful this film will ever be released onto DVD just because of how many different studios have material on here. I'm shocked it was ever released to theaters in the first place but I doubt Universal would pay the bill to get these clips released today. This leaves us with the VHS, which is faded and has all the films clip's in pan and scan, which is probably how many of us first saw the film way back in the day. Pleasence and Allen don't add too much in the way of funny or interesting comments but it's always nice to see them. Pleasence even gets to throw a few comments towards himself in Halloween. From what I've read the MPAA originally gave this an X-rating even though all the movies here received a R-rated on their own. Oh, the good ol' days of horror films.

Maciste_Brother TERROR IN THE AISLES is a very entertaining movie. You can't help but watch the series of clips thrown at ya from beginning to end. Unfortunately, the whole thing is a head scratcher. TERROR IN THE AISLES almost looks like producers got hold of a series of clips from several movies and they basically decides to make a movie out of them. The way it's edited together is often fun AND confusing. They always have clips of 3 to 4 movies edited together, which sometimes makes the combination fun to see how things from 4 different films actually meld together but it also becomes frustrating after a while.What's odd also is that they never identify the movies. Some of them I have no idea from what movie they were from. And I'm sure non-genre fans would also be lost to make sense of anything. For instance, at the very end, we finally see very briefs scenes from SUSPIRIA. Why?!?! Why didn't they show more scenes earlier? When those scenes are shown, it's an almost useless addition to the bunch.TITA is very short. 84 minutes. When it ended abruptly, I thought, This can't be the end??? It was. It's hard to believe this was ever released on the big screen. People must have felt cheated for paying full price for such a short and inexpensive flick. But in the end, even if it doesn't make much sense, it's still fun to watch and because I doubt TERROR IN THE AISLES will ever be released on DVD due to all of the legalities over the rights of every film clips they use, if you want to see it, better buy the video now.

sgt619-1 This documentary shows some of the best moments mainly from 70's and early 80's horror movies. Donald Pleasance was a perfect choice for a host. Its really fun to guess and point out which scene came from what movie. Highly recommended for any true horror fan.