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 Crypt film. "Terror in the Crypt" was released in Italy on 27 May 1964 where it was distributed by MEC. It grossed a total of 69.541 million Italian lire. "Terror in the Crypt" was released straight to television in the United States by AIP-TV. It was released theatrically in the United Kingdom as "Crypt of Horror". The film was released on DVD in 2012 by Retromedia/Image in the United States where it retains the title "Crypt of the Vampire" while the credits in the film refer to it as "Terror in the Crypt". In a contemporary review, the "Monthly Film Bulletin"