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.

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.

I wasn't.

The last in this years Halloween-A-Thon, and by no means the best. 'Terrified' was quite slow paced, and with a murderer that resembles a poor, camp Batman villain, it was hardly going to hold much tension. There were a lot, of driving scenes, with less than gripping almost-crash scenes.

Terrified did have some entertaining fight-scenes, and I always enjoy watching a killer as clumsy to get his arse kicked. But the most clumsy part of the plot, was the victim being buried alive. Call me old fashioned, but if I were to bury someone alive, I would dig the grave more than two feet deep. I am pretty sure, even bound, he could have just sat up from that scattering of dirt.

Worth it for the opening scene, and for a pretty effective sense of dread throughout despite the general dullness. Rod Lauren's bargain-basement James Dean impression is what sells the movie, though: It's teen-angsty self-laceration butter knife style.

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.

I wasn't.

Decent/kooky little cut-price psycho-babble shocker with a crazed killer in a balaclava stalking/killing teens at an abandoned cowboy ghost town. He buries one alive and causes Tracy Olsen to faint. Denver Pyle is the sheriff.

Worth it for the opening scene, and for a pretty effective sense of dread throughout despite the general dullness. Rod Lauren's bargain-basement James Dean impression is what sells the movie, though: It's teen-angsty self-laceration butter knife style.

Seltsamer, schwarz-weißer Protoslasher ohne Slash, dafür mit gut gekleidetem Maskenmeuchler mit Faible für Schnellbeton. Hört sich schräg an, ist es auch, leider ist der Streifen jedoch so gering budgetiert, dass man viele wichtige Plotelemente nur erzählt, aber nie gezeigt bekommt.

The last in this years Halloween-A-Thon, and by no means the best. 'Terrified' was quite slow paced, and with a murderer that resembles a poor, camp Batman villain, it was hardly going to hold much tension. There were a lot, of driving scenes, with less than gripping almost-crash scenes.

Terrified did have some entertaining fight-scenes, and I always enjoy watching a killer as clumsy to get his arse kicked. But the most clumsy part of the plot, was the victim being buried alive. Call me old fashioned, but if I were to bury someone alive, I would dig the grave more than two feet deep. I am pretty sure, even bound, he could have just sat up from that scattering of dirt.

This reminded me of 80's slasher movies where a killer traps people in one area and offs them one by one. Sort of like My Bloody Valentine. But this is from 1963 and it almost feels like a monster movie, but the monster is just a guy in a black mask. It is sort of fascinating and the killer guy is high on the lists of super creeps though what he goes through to get what he wants is pretty messed up.