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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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. -
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.
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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.
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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.
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I may have enjoyed this film more than I should but I don't care. The first 40 seconds are badass, the killer is what makes this film watchable, his dailouge is so real compared to the robotic script that the others have, his lines are partnered with a simple but effect black mask look that really gets the point across. Though the film isn't terrifying I appreciate the atmosphere of the ghost town. It's clearly a old western set but it works, the cobwebs and darkness really add something to this place. My complaint is there should be more scenes with the killer, the stuff with the cops felt unnecessary and didn't move the plot, we need more killer.
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