Police commissioner Funes and three researchers of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.
Aterrorizados, 공포의 침입자, 驚死人, 小镇风云, 나이트 테러, Оцепеневшие от страха, 诡怪疑云, Nocne istoty, Rædselsslagen, בעתה, Speriați de moarte, テリファイド, คดีผวาซ่อนเงื่อน, Заціпенілі від страху, Rémület, 詭怪疑雲
MexicoB-15 Morbido Film Fest 
Argentina Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Film Festival 
Canada Fantasia International Film Festival 
USA Austin Fantastic Fest 
France Paris International Fantastic Film Festival Argentina 
Russia16+ 
Japan 
South Korea15 
Switzerland16 USANR 
Germany16 Germany16 
UK15 Germany16 Argentina Canada France Germany Japan Mexico Russia South Korea Switzerland UK USA 
Not enough haunted house movies are willing to just floor it from the jump. Fuck escalating tension, just spooky ghouls and zombie kids running up on your shit immediately.
Terrified takes a trio of neighborhood houses and decorates them with unsettling tension, excellent sound design and very effective scares ranging from subtle to bombastic.
The first act setup really sucked me in and it’s one of my favorite sequences of the year, the cast is solid as well... and something happens in this that appreciate so much... everyone in this movie taking clearly unexplainable supernatural scenarios very seriously. The second act approach of zig zagging characters/houses was confusing at first but ended up being right up my alley as it thickened the air with ‘no one is safe’ vibes.
Well acted all around with great effects, a little CGI I wasn’t super crazy about, brisk pacing (despite a lull in act…
Oh mammy, suddenly my childhood fear of the old bent naked man coming from under my bed is alive n well in my life.
That was excellent, I bloody well needed that. The willies just kept on coming, I jumped, I let out an oh, and I may even hide under my covers later! Be still my thumping heart!
Instead of smiling to see dafties get off'd I was genuinely concerned for the 3 experts and that lovely cop. See I do care!
Not scary like everyone says. Barely any tense moments or monster peak a boos. It had an interesting concept but plot holes galore with wooden acting and a boring drawn out story.
The beginning started off strong but had a dismal and unsatisfactory last half. Only one scene in the beginning was disturbing to me, the rest was average horror scares. Meh, it was so overhyped and left me wanting.
Great, another movie that weaponizes the naked bodies of older people forcing me to look at my own mortality and how I really have no control over it. I miss ghosts in blankets.
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Slows down quite a bit too much when it switches perspectives over to the paranormal investigators at the midpoint but when this is basically just operating as a series of spooky, loosely geographically connected anthology Exorcist/J-horror setpieces, man is it fairly lean and mean. Quickly and ruthlessly discards characters and as bizarre, violent events begin to pile up and overlap in this haunted Argentinian suburb it does manage a few genuinely shocking, creepy images. The faint thumping the husband hears turning out to be his wife having her skull bashed in over and over by an invisible force, a tall naked monster who lives under the bed seen via night vision camera, the reanimated corpse of a dead boy hit…
Demián Rugna’s tune-up game before pumping out When Evil Lurks. Couldn’t give less of a shit that it sort of feels like a series of disjointed vignettes at times—the guy just understands what “fear” is, pure & simple.
Once again emanating those same Lucio Fulci “we’ve entered the doomsday realm” vibes as he masterfully does with Lurks, only this time linking more to City of the Living Dead or The Beyond in how inconsequential everything seems. Creepy shit happens in a small neighborhood, people act not all that shocked, we neither receive nor need much of an explanation, and the apocalypse subtly begins; not a terrible way to structure a film, even though I routinely count doing the same thing as…
This movie urgently needs a new and better poster. If you see this poster anywhere you can only imagine that this flick is going to suck.
But that's not the case. This is a great Argentine horror movie full of creepy stuff, intersting story and a compeling end.
What I like the most about this film is that it don't depend on jump scares and loud noises. Movies like this are becoming more rare.
Give it a watch if you like good horror movies and ignore the lousy poster.
a dead kid sits at my kitchen table, I don’t care if he’s my kid, I’m moving tf out of that house
I finished a busy month of challenges and suddenly had nothing scheduled that I needed to watch, which is great in a way, but then also terrible for my OCD because picking a movie to watch literally becomes the single greatest issue my life has ever known. Like probably the main reason I participate in these challenges is so I can pick stuff to watch ahead of time and save myself the daily epic battle in my head of “which movie is the right movie to watch right now. Great Satan, if you read this then I know at least you know exactly what I mean!
Anywho, I had heard good things about this and decided to give it a go and…
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After really enjoying When Evil Lurks, I decided to check the director’s previous effort, which I remember a few people here on the site reviewing but never paying much attention to.
And it was solid. Definitely has its moments, the makeup work is great, and the story is intriguing enough. The scene at the opening with the body hitting against the wall and all was terrifying (no pun intended) and pretty brutal. The camerawork and cinematography along with the performances are all really good. There’s a Raimi vibe and I would not be surprised Rugna was influenced by him.
Unfortunately, I feel the movie needs to go further. Its humorous but it needed to be campier and more brutal. It feels like for whatever reason (maybe budgetary?) he’s playing everything very safe and restrained.
All in all, it has an interesting story that’s very well executed but it's hampered by its self-imposed constraints.
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Kelce
Terrified
Sly
Destroyer
Brave is not saying I have no fear. It’s being terrified and still moving forward.
I look differently at my sink now.
