Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution is a 2009 documentary broadcast on BBC Two in July 2009. In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines drama, archive and documentary interviews to examine Robespierre's year in charge of the Committee of Public Safety - the powerful state machine at the heart of Revolutionary France. Contesting Robespierre's legacy are Slavoj Žižek, who argues that terror in the cause of virtue is justifiable, and Simon Schama, who
Terror in the Aisles 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" (although, surprisingly, not its 1980 original), "Halloween I" & "II", "Marathon Man", "Nighthawks", "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", "Touch of Evil", "The Postman Always Rings Twice", "Vice Squad", "Wait Until Dark", "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"), "natural terror" ("Alligator", "The