The Terror takes viewers on a harrowing journey. The story centers on the Royal Navy’s perilous voyage into uncharted territory as the crew attempts to discover the Northwest Passage. Faced with treacherous conditions, limited resources, dwindling hope, and fear of the unknown, the crew is pushed to the brink of extinction.

Frozen, isolated and stuck at the end of the earth, The Terror highlights all that can go wrong when a group of men, desperate to survive, struggle not only with the elements but with each other.

In 1848, two real-life warships, HMS Terror and HMS Erebus sent on a Royal Naval expedition to find the treacherous Northwest Passage become trapped in ice near the Arctic and face starvation, mutiny, cannibalism, and a demonic polar bear.