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Buried alive! How much Shock can the human brain endure before it CRACKS!
A masked lunatic kills off people in a haunted house.
Terrified
1963 Directed by Lew Landers
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Terrified you will not be. The first 40 seconds of this are extremely good as a creepy masked man buries a boy alive. This guy is a real Bryan Singer he just loves hurting boys. I actually do enjoy a lot of the mask man work, the black and white makes him real creepy. There's a lot of dialogue taking up the first 45 minutes but once we really get into the abandon house stalking it's tremendously watchable.
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Very obvious who the killer is within the first 25 mins. Has some creepy moments but the "chase" between the killer and Ken went on forever. Overall a mild recommendation and finally an ok film from this collection. Next up: Nightmare in Wax.
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Yeah that opening is dope as fuck and then WAMMO straight to Boresville, Population: Tire.
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This was a vessel for me to get back into screenwriting. Nothing more. The opening was cool, everything else was more motivation to keep looking at the script and not the TV.
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If you give your film a title like Terrified, it had better be pretty goddamn scary. This is not. Still, the opening -- in which a hooded psychopath ties up a young man, places him in a shallow grave, and fills it with concrete, causing the poor kid's mind to snap -- is rather memorable.
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MILL CREEK CULT CINEMA COLLECTION: 3/200
Disc 1, Side B
“I’m your oldest friend: Terror.”
I’ve returned from my brief Holiday Hiatus and now I am Herbie Fully Loaded and ready to get back to this godforsaken box set.Creepy opening that went nowhere save for some abandoned house tag later on. The b&w shadow-play was cool sometimes. I liked the premise, but it didn’t really amount to anything.
Had a nice repurposed Western set that was clearly for a different shoot.
Still felt like a movie to just have on in the background. Overall, I was not Terrified.
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I’d say this is a run of the mill B&W thriller. Nothing too special here except the hooded killer and some of the movie taking place in the old west.
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This would probably make a solid second feature after a better but similar movie, like City of the Dead.
On one hand this is clearly a movie thrown together to be shot over a weekend on a standing Western set. It’s a cheapie, Roger Corman style. It’s clearly meant to cash in on the William Castle style.
On the other hand, it’s well photographed, with lots of good shadowy black and white and it gets moving pretty quickly after a bit of dithering in the first act and its over quickly.
So like I say, worth a go if you’re already in the mood for this kind of thing. For some reason reminds me of L Rob Hubbard’s pulp horror novel, Fear. If you get a chance, read it - it’s honestly great (Scientology is a con!). This has a similar mannered moodiness to it. -
As one character explains, fear is the ultimate weapon that will force countries to fight one another and force one person to kill another. If someone has fear then they can be destroyed or destroy anyone in their way. A small town is being stalked by a maniac wearing a mask and this maniac likes to use fear as his weapon. One way of gaining fear is by playing chicken on the road forcing people to make up their mind on which way to turn the wheel. Another way to gain fear is by burying the victims alive so they can slowly count their final seconds before their air supply is gone.
Terrified is a wonderfully entertaining picture that goes…
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Otra pequeña sorpresa de la Crown, una peli a medio camino entre el género clásico (los seriales tipo Fantomas) y el moderno (el slasher, lo meta). La historia no se entiende muy bien, tiene desvíos muy extraños, personajes que desaparecen, pero eso la hace aún más fascinante. Podría ser una exploit bizarra de Psicosis, pero he leído que se rodó en 1959. Los títulos de crédito son una maravilla.