I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

A friend and I are in the habit of picking a terrible horror movie (either on TV or free on hulu/netflix) and making fun of it. "Are You Scared" was a great choice for this game.The movie definitely imitates several better films. The most obvious references are to the "Saw" series (especially "Saw II"), and the premise is similar to "Fear dot com" (though with a deadly reality show rather than a website). "Are You Scared" involves six older teens/young adults who are kidnapped and murdered off in a warehouse, which is similar to "Saw II". Otherwise, this movie seems like either a parody or an imitation of other movies. I took a theater appreciation class in college, and one of our smaller projects was reenacting a scene from a movie or play...It seems that the writer of "Are You Scared" started with that idea, played with the story a bit so it wouldn't be obvious plagiarism, and found a handful of low-rate actors who desperately needed to pay rent. The story is dull, the deaths (which usually make up for a crappy story) were laughable, and the acting...well. The police officers seemed to have forgotten that the primary rule of acting is "show, don't tell" -- and nobody had any real emotion. A character could be almost convincingly freaking out -- until there's a close-up, and you see the lack of emotion in their eyes. Finally, the killer. (HERE BE SPOILERS.) Sure, I can sort-of believe that a stalking abuser would go to any lengths to find and terrorize the wife and child who managed to get away...And I might be able to believe that he'd be a serial killer who would murder young adults in the guise of a reality TV show. Sure. Even if the FBI officer tried to ascribe some kind of philosophical motive to his actions, or the show was still rumored to be in the "planning" stages (i.e., nobody had seen it), I could kind of believe what they're going for. But, honestly, if the first person to leave your group disappears, and you see the second person die in front of you (and his sister obviously traumatized), wouldn't your goal be to get out of there rather than follow the "game"? Most of these twits didn't have a key hidden inside them, and they could have gone with the final girl (and stayed together, for the love of cheese). That would have been more interesting than this mess, but probably would have prevented any kind of cliffhanger ending. Overall, 2/10. Entertaining at midnight and with a friend who will make fun of the movie with you. Best when it's on TV or hulu/netflix for free. Don't spend money to rent or buy this.

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This is a little message to pretty much everyone mostly the people who have done this film a disservice by wasting its time insulting it and maybe, just maybe, people who don't have such ridiculous expectations for these types of films. Why is this film bad just because it is similar to another film that is good! Grow some balls and accept that not every film is Lord Of The Rings and appreciate entertaining straight to video productions. For what this film is, its good, end of subject. And just because everyone apparently has the same generic opinion on just about everything as everybody else means they are most probably wrong.thanks

One uneventful Saturday night, I settle down on the couch with a good snack and some pop before grabbing my remote to find a free movie on Comcast's OnDemand section. I scroll down alphabetically and soon see the title, "Are You Scared." I read the synopsis and the sound of teenagers trapped in an abandoned warehouse by some psycho was quite familiar, but I decided to give it a shot.The movie starts off with a a teenage girl (probably 17 or so), barefoot, hands tied behind her back and wearing some sort of torture device on her neck. A tape comes on saying that she press the red and green buttons in the correct order (in under a minute) to live. First she walks across a room with broken glass scattered everywhere and pushes the first button. She makes it back across to the other button which is located at the bottom of a fish tank. Time running out, she cries out in desperation and lunges her head into the fish tank, only to quickly pull out in pain as what she thought was water was actually acid.It was the next scene when the detectives were investigating the girl's body and crime scene that I had to turn it off. The acting was mediocre and the chemistry between the characters was a textbook case of there being 'history' between the male and female detective.This is such a blatant knock-off of SAW that I am utterly surprised that there is no lawsuit in the works. Take my advice, don't waste your time.