Category: Fictionalised historical supernatural horror
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If being stuck inside the Arctic Circle on a boat for years while being fed lead-poisoned food and no hot water for a shower isn't horror enough, imagine adding a killer bear into the mix.
And that's what you get with The Terror - based on Dan Simmons' 2007 novel of the same name, this 10-part series depicts Capt. Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition to try map the Northwest Passage around the northern extremes of Canada. All is well until an unusually harsh winter cause the The Erebus and The Terror to be stuck in drift ice. No-one's going anywhere and for a while at that!
As time goes on, the leadership of the expedition become torn between lying to the men to keep their spirits up, or to admit that waiting for rescue is futile and having to make a tough choice to abandon ship. Alongside the human drama of dwindling food supplies, cabin fever and the cruelty of the British admiralty, there is also an enormous supernatural bear-like creature killing large numbers of the men in bloody and gory fashion.
