Terrified (2017) Review

Terrified (2017) Review

Voices in the kitchen, furniture shaking at night, corpses moving seemingly of their own accord… in a quiet suburban street in Buenos Aires, strange occurrences convince the residents that they’re being haunted. Following levitating bodies and murderous threats from an unseen entity, neighbours Clara, Walter and Alicia get together to tackle the problem. But as things get more and more sinister, they start to see how truly dangerous the presence really is.

When a paranormal investigator is brought in, they hope he’ll get to the root of their neighbourhood nightmare… but dark spirits don’t like being disturbed and things take a dark and deadly turn.

Get Terrified, evil is here.

Regular followers of this site have probably noticed that I complain a lot about how bereft latter day horror films are of new ideas. More often than not we end up with a flick that opts for the well-worn path, looking for an easy sell rather than risking scaring up anything new. However I would say that there are definitely a couple of recent films that have bucked that trend and rather splendidly both of them are being release on Blu-Ray in the UK on the very same day. TERRIFIED is one of them and is for my money, the more unsettling of the two.

I don’t recall having seen anything quite as creepy as writer/ director Demián Rugna’s film since I first saw THE EXORCIST aged fourteen. TERRIFIED is one of those rare beasts that managed to get under my skin and give me goose bumps. From its opening scene this Argentine horror had me awe-struck and what’s surprising is that managed to keep the scares coming, building and building into the most unsettling horror flick that I have seen in an age! I loved it!