Instant Favorite.

Excellent but underrated film

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

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

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!

Saw it once about 20 years ago and it made quite an impression. As others have remarked, the opening sequence is outstanding. I wish most horror films could start with a bang like this one! The guy who is impaled on a fencepost was also pretty shocking.The acting and dialogue was better than usual in this one. When the hooded fiend's identity is revealed, it wasn't the biggest surprise in the world, but what was surprising is how sympathetic he suddenly became and how the female subject of his obsession related to him.There's something inherently eerie about these super-cheap B$W spookers that were made outside the Hollywood system. "Terrified" must have something going for it for me to recall it all these years later. I'd like to grab a DVD or tape of it...

I saw this movie in it's theatrical release, and was very impressed with the way it maintained the level of real tension throughout. I wasn't inclined, as I was with most horror B flicks, to just blow off the attempts at making the audience shiver. This film was made with some intelligence and sensitivity to the characters and to making the audience care about them. It was on TV once in the 70s, that I know of, on CBC, where their reviewers gave it *** out of four.I have searched for references to this movie, and it is very difficult to find. Maltin doesn't review it. I'd like to see it again. 7/10