Documentary on horror movies set in a cinema, hosted by the legendary Donald Pleasence and Nancy Allen. Clips from films such as Psycho, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Rosemary's Baby, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist, Jaws, Halloween, Alien, The Thing, The Fog, Friday the 13th (pt2), Scanners and so on feature. There are also a few non-horrors such as Marathon Man & Nighthawks. The bulk of movies shown date from the early 1960's to the mid 80's, only a little running time is given to the old classics of the 1930's & 40's, which is a shame. They may be tame in comparison but fact is they terrified audiences back in their day, plus they were the foundations of horror. So that's my only complaint. The master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock speaks of his movies, which is great. This film may look incredibly dated to some and younger viewers may not find so much in it but to those of us who were watching horror movies back in the 1980's and earlier this is a real trip down memory lane. And for the full experience watch it on VHS!

When I was very young, way back in the eighties, I wasn't allowed to watch horror movies. Phooey! So instead, in a what-is-an-internet? world, I got my fix by reading (and re-reading dozens of times) the backs of the Styrofoam-filled VHS boxes in the Horror section of the Fry's Food Store's video rental.Somehow, somewhere, I got a viewing (SHHH! Don't tell my parents) of Terror in the Aisles and lo! Behold! Dozens of horror movie clips all at once and from forbidden movies! Needless to write, that was Heaven at that time.At that time.Nearly three decades later (see? I said I was very young) I've watched it again. Eh. Well, I'm sure it was good back then, but hell on wheels…SPOILER alerts! You better have seen these horror movies it documented or the clips shown literally gives away 90% of the scares, shocks and in most cases, the ending. Not to mention, probably a third of all snippets were from Halloween. (Yeah, I know, Donald Pleasence was one of two hosts, so gee, I wonder why.)Okay, here's the problem. This "Terror" documentary never bothered to label each movie scene, ala "From Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)," even though this movie was basically an advertisement for each film shown. In fact, to this day, I haven't seen all the movies shown, so how am I supposed to match up "scenes" from movies and then go and rent/buy them without knowing which clip was from which movie mentioned in the end credits?Nancy Allen (Carrie) was the other co-host and both her and Donny did an excellent job of telling us what we already know about movie scares. But, back in the 80s, much like skipping Bob Saget's annoying and unethically unfunny commentary during America's Funniest Home Videos, I was more interested in seeing the next clip and the next. And for what it's worth and for fans of the terror-genre (Notice: not just horror, but all-around "terror" films) it's a quick 80 or so minutes of back-to-back gems. Even when Michael Myers takes center stage a tad too much.I mean, really. Jason had donned his mask by the time of this filming! Show some more Camp Crystal Lake footage!

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.

"Terror In The Aisles" is not a definitive compilation film of clips from terror movies,but it is still good.It contains a lot of interesting clips from movies,many of which are often famous terror movies.The film,however,has two main difficulties.One,the narration by Donald Pleasence and Nancy Allen rings flat. two,as famous as the different scenes from the movies mentioned often are,THEY ARE NOT SCARY out of the context of the original films that they are from.Almost anyone who has seen most of or all of the movies that these film clips are from will have a lot of fun recognizing what scenes are from what movies,especially before the names of those movies are mentioned in the closing credits to this film.Overall,"Terror In The Aisles" is a good movie,but it DOES HAVE ITS LIMITATIONS.I give this movie a rating of 6/10.