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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

To me, this movie is perfection.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

College student Ken Lewis(Rod Lauren)is writing a paper on terror and how much the human brain can take before snapping. He will get the opportunity to find out first hand. Someone is terrorizing motorist on the highway. But is this masked maniac involved with citizens being buried alive in a ghost town's cemetery? The story line is interesting for a low budget horror flick. The main set being the ghost town is atmospheric, but the cemetery scenes are pretty lame and unrealistic. TERRIFIED has its tense moments and is not a total waste. Acting leaves something to be desired. Players also include: Tracy Olsen, Steve Drexel, Stephen Roberts and Denver Pyle as Sheriff Dixon.

For a low budget Crown-International movie, it may come as a surprise that while this movie can't be considered "great" or "good", it does have a fair number of effective moments. The ghost town makes a nice creepy location, especially with the night-time shooting. The middle of the movie, when the character of Ken suffers one terrifying moment after another while pursuing (or being pursued by) the hooded figure is a tense sequence.But the movie doesn't quite work overall. The first third of the movie is somewhat slow for the most part. There are some stupid decisions by the characters, like with Ken having several opportunities to escape the area but staying. And as it's been pointed by other people in this user comments section, it's pretty easy to figure out who the masked figure is before the "surprise" revelation. Still, while the movie isn't overall successful, it can't really be considered a "BAD" movie. If it's a slow night, and you want to see how low budget filmmakers can overcome their limited funds with creativity, you might find this movie entertaining enough.

Lew Landers(Return of the Vampire;The Raven)directed his final film with Terrified, a rather dialogue heavy chiller regarding a weirdo wearing a black silk stocking mask and well tailored suit terrorizing a young man named Ken(Rod Lauren)in and around a western ghost town and nearby graveyard. The nearby town drunk known as Crazy Bill has been impaled on the graveyard gate with locals David(Steve Drexel)and restaurant waitress Marge(Tracy Olsen)off to fetch the police as Ken searches for the killer, while also hoping to confront and overcome fear(..his father was hard on him for being "weak" always complaining of his supposed cowardice). A recent escaped loony named Joey(..seen at the beginning being buried under cement by the killer who mockingly laughs at the bound and subdued kid frightened out of his gourd)is thought to be prowling the ghost town and Ken wonders if it's him who is all over the area tormenting him. The killer plays a cat-and-mouse game with Ken, sneaking around, often assaulting him from behind. When the killer finally starts to bury him alive in a grave with dirt, will David and Marge come to his rescue? Or is he doomed to be overwhelmed by the fear that permeates within? Shot in basically four major locations(..the ghost town, restaurant, diner, and inside the cab of a car), Terrified consists of characters talking, talking, and talking some more. That and the entire middle portion with poor Ken running around the ghost town, trying to avoid the psychopath on the loose, toying with the kid. It's funny that David and Marge head off to call the sheriff and aren't in that big of hurry to get back knowing that Ken has remained where a killer lurks. There's great emphasis on fear to the point where it gets a bit heavy-handed. One thing's for certain, Landers squeezes every bit out of the western ghost town that he can get, shooting all over this set..it's a pretty cool little set, too. I'm guessing this low budget B-movie was shot in some back lot or small studio because so much of it is set at the ghost town with characters moving about hearing noises and seeing the killer shoot across them, hiding somewhere else. Stephen Roberts has a supporting role, as a restaurant owner, Wesley Blake, Marge's boss, and his confession of lust to her, revealing the pervert that he is, is rather amusing and warped..the dialogue is bound to provide some chuckles. It's only appropriate that the showdown between Ken and the killer would take place in this abandoned town on the outskirts of civilization. I'm guessing Terrified will bore some into a stooper, but I rather enjoyed the ghost town set, how ratty and rundown it is, cobwebs and rotted wood. The graveyard is also a nice edition to the movie. I can see why Landers would shoot most of the film here, with other scenes basically providing exposition informing us of certain plot elements such as Marge's father, Ken's dilemma, the love triangle between the principals, Crazy Bill's reputation, and Joey's circumstances. It all gets a bit too talky for my taste, but there are inspired moments here and there..Landers has certainly made better films, but had an eye for atmospheric set pieces.

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...