![]() ![]() When a character remarks “this place wants us dead,” he’s not wrong. But both, as fictional adaptations must, take great liberties. So history laid the groundwork for Simmons’ book and this series. Ciarán Hinds as John Franklin, Tobias Menzies as James Fitzjames. The Terror, as it happens, was among the ships bombarding Fort McHenry during the 1814 Battle of Baltimore, hurling some of the “bombs bursting in air” immortalized by Francis Scott Key after witnessing the battle. ![]() Both were British bomb vessels, retrofitted for Arctic exploration after seeing service in the War of 1812. The pun of the title becomes clear when you hear the names of the ships lost on the Franklin polar expedition, which embarked in 1845: the HMS Erebus and, wait for it, the HMS Terror. ![]() It’s based on the 2007 bestseller by Dan Simmons, which was inspired by a famous British polar expedition of 129 men on two ships, none of which - neither the ships nor the men - returned. ![]() Right in the middle of this Venn diagram is The Terror, AMC’s new history-horror hybrid, which premieres tonight (Monday, March 26). Looking back at AMC’s greatest critical and commercial successes, the network seems to have staked its claim in two distinct areas: lovingly detailed recreations of a pivotal historical moment and. ![]()
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