Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Richard Chatten This 'Z' budget quickie, probably taking it's cue from William Castle minus the gimmicks, is of mild historical interest for two reasons. It's one of the very first (if not the first) psycho-thrillers depicting a middle-aged killer in a mask preying on youngsters in a deserted location at night - with childhood traumas and adult hang-ups thrown in for good measure, both of which later became staples of the slasher films of the seventies and eighties.And it's the last film directed by the prolific Lew Landers (and his first feature film in four years), who died of a heart attack a few months before it was released. (Easily his best film was one of his first, 'The Raven' in 1935.) Landers had been working mainly in TV for most of the past ten years and, Boy, does it show! Most of 'Terrified' looks and sounds like a long and dour TV episode, complete with interminable verbal expositions, tiresomely ubiquitous music and overlit recycled sets around which characters supposedly in mortal peril aimlessly wander back and forth instead of just getting the hell out; while unnecessarily waving flashlights about on sets obviously already brightly lit by arc lamps. Of interest to the social historian might be the blatant product placement in the diner, the walls of which seems to be covered with advertisements for Coca Cola which keep positioning themselves in shot.

Rainey Dawn Another minor thriller that has it's ups and downs. Some scenes are really good, others are just long and boring. They could have cut off the extra 21 minutes and made an hour long film out of this one easily and made a film that more people would be apt to watch or like better.It's not a haunted house as the plot summary suggests, it's a place that looks like it could be in a haunted house film. So the plot summary is misleading in that way but it is true a masked "someone" is killing people (and I won't say who that someone is).It's far from an awful 'B' film but it's not one you would call really good either, it's so-so at best. If you happen upon this film it is worth a watch but don't expect a lot out of it. The poster and the film's summary is a bit better than the film really is.Best parts of the film are the opening and the scene with the spiders.4/10

dbborroughs Cheap drive-in shocker about a ski masked maniac running around a small town, the adjoining ghost town and and cemetery scaring people to the extreme before killing them.Good small scale horror film is genuinely creepy with a nice feeling of tension running all through it. The film's one weakness is its sets which look very much like sets, the ghost town looks like the frontage of a western street scene at night and the cemetery is in no way realistic. If you can go with it and give the film's sets a pass the story and the performances will carry you along pleasantly to the end.Worth a look.

josebut8 I just saw "Terrified" for the first time on Rhino's "Horrible Horrors" collection. It was really quite good. Sure, it was super low budget and kind of stupid, but the villain gave me the willies. He runs around this ghost town in a suit and cape (I think) and he wears a hood (or is it a ski mask?) that only shows his eyes. The thing about it that truly creeped me out was that he ran in and out of scenes really fast and for some reason this was actually scary...I don't know why that is. Maybe it made him completely unpredictable. He didn't do any of the usual things these guys do when they stalk someone. He kept letting people go and then would recapture them and so on...all with this creepy whisper voice and super disturbing giggle. He was also a real kick-*** fighter! There's this one fight in a cave that looks almost like it's a real fight. You can tell this one actor is really trying to get away (or he's just an excellent actor...kind of a poor man's James Dean). It's sort of a re-working of "Phantom of the Opera" and there's a touching denouement on the part of the guy playing the villain. But I have to say, if I'm ever in a ghost town after sundown, I just may be looking over my shoulder, and I just may be...Terrified!