Reign of Terror June 1793 and the end of July 1794, there were 16,594 official death sentences in France, of which 2,639 were in Paris. There was a sense of emergency among leading politicians in France in the summer of 1793 between the widespread civil war and counter-revolution. Bertrand Barère exclaimed on 5 September 1793 in the Convention: "Let's make terror the order of the day!" They were determined to avoid street violence such as the September Massacres of 1792 by taking violence into their own hands as an instrument of government. Robespierre in February 1794 in a speech explained the necessity of
Terror in the Crypt Terror in the Crypt Terror in the Crypt () is a 1964 Italian-Spanish horror film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque. The film is based on "Carmilla" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. "Terror in the Crypt" is based on Sheridan Le Fanu's novel "Carmilla". It is the third adaptation of the novel, following Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Vampyr" and Roger Vadim's "Blood and Roses". According to Tonino Valerii, the films script was written in three days while Ernesto Gastaldi states it was written in 24 hours. Gastaldi stated that he lied to a producer that they had a script ready, and then returned