A Disappointing Continuation

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

This film takes inspiration from many classic films in the psycho killer genre, but its narrative avoids clichés and has a driving force all its own.Frayed is a very interesting psychological horror film. Yes, the acting isn't always that stellar sometimes but it has a lot going for it including several twists and some very good gore scenes. The beginning murder is one of the most graphic I've seen in a movie. It will disturb you, yet you will find yourself wanting to go back and re-watch the movie, wondering what clues you might have missed.The last scene is definitely the most disturbing one of the film (even more than the bloodbath at the beginning).Highly recommended.

Thank god for a film that doesn't treat the audience like they're idiots, and really went the extra mile to make it interesting. AWESOME PLOT. How often can you say that about horror flicks?I decided to watch this movie with some friends this weekend on Netflix instantly and I have to say, we were so impressed. We're all big horror film buffs and we honestly got this not thinking we'd have to pay attention and possibly make fun of some bad acting. Completely wrong. We were all dead silent and really getting into the plot - by the time it ended, we talked about it forever. I would recommend this to any horror film buff who is searching for something fresh and interesting. The acting is decent, of course you have the pretty average characters involved and some of the normal scenes you'd expect from any horror film. The twists, turns, surprises, flashbacks, and especially the acting done by a few of the actors is above average, way above average. Seriously impressed. It's always nice to see something new and ACTUALLY be surprised. This movie makes you think and really go over the ending to understand again and again. I would tell anyone to watch this movie, SERIOUSLY a fan.

Frayed is set in a small town near Washington called Yellow Glenn where teenager Sara Baker (Alena Dashiell) & her friend Veronica (Tascha Smith-Floe) head out into the woods to meet up with their boyfriends & party the night away. Meanwhile Sara's father Sheriff Pat Baker (Tony Doupe) has to face up to the fact that his homicidal son Kurt is being transfered from the local mental institution to a larger one in the city, however Baker receives a call that Kurt has escaped & one security guard is dead with another one missing. The local police under Sheriff Baker begin a search but soon find a trail of dead bodies that lead them to Sheriff Baker's house where his wife & daughter are being paid a visit by his killer son...Co-written, co-produced & directed by the duo of Norbert Caoili who is also credited with the music & editing & Rob Portman who himself also gets a stunt double credit(!) this horror thriller starts out like a Halloween (1978) clone but quickly turns into a mess of ideas that never come together. The script tries to be far too clever & offers up lots of silly twists which range from predictable (the security guard not being who he claimed, I mean that foot in the bushes at the hospital grounds had to belong to someone, right?) to mildly effective (the twist about who really killed Kurt's mother was reasonable but even then though the motivation behind it was baffling, OK sure the guy is a paedophile but Kurt's mother never actually saw anything so why kill her? Why not lie? What made him think Kurt would say he had been raped by his own father yet not mention the small matter his own father murdered his mother in front of him?) to the absolutely ridiculous (the end totally pulls the rug from under the audience's feet & basically says the crap you have just sat through for almost two hours was completely made up by some nutter & none of it meant anything as it didn't actually happen & was made up) & with several of these ever increasingly annoying twists coming during the last ten minutes it becomes quite frustrating to watch & put everything together in a coherent way. The other big problem with Frayed is the pacing, at one hour & fifty minutes long it drags badly & not enough happens. The script tries to juggle teen parent problems, the relationship between the Sheriff & his new wife, the search for Kurt & a security guards wandering around looking like his dazed. None of it is very engaging & as I said it's just far too slow & uneventful.There really isn't much in the way of horror here, the body count is low & apart from Kurt's mother getting her head bashed in at the start all the kills are off-screen. Ouch. Forget about any decent blood or gore as there isn't any & there's no nudity either. The comparison's between Frayed & Halloween are there to see, a boy murdering a family member, the boy put away in a mental institute, the boy escaping & heading home to pay his old family a visit & murder a few people along the way. While Frayed ultimately goes in a different direction the two films are similar but while Halloween is a classic Frayed definitely isn't & never will be.The opening sequence shot through the point of view of a camcorder is quite effective but it's shame about the rest of the film I suppose.Filmed in Washington the IMDb says Frayed was shot in 2005 but not screened publicly until 2007 & not released on DVD until 2009. The acting is average, no-one stood out for me as being particularly good or bad.Frayed is a horror thriller that rips-off Halloween but then tries to go in it's own directions with a few film destroying twists which range from predictable to just plain horrible. I didn't like it, it's neither a slasher nor a thriller despite wanting to be both & ultimately doesn't satisfy as either.

Ah this movie sounded good but it was so boring. I mean this dude is him and not him and he kills only certain people and he stares at a picture. Then he takes someone else personality. It would have been better had he just had been him and killed as him. But he was killing as him and he wasn't and it was just boring. A little weird. It was just boring. The action was OK but not great. This movie would have been better had the person who who cause all of this had been killed but he got away with it. He did the worst thing he could do to a little boy. I would give this movie 2 stars watch the shortcut instead. Now that movie rocks!!