Line #46 Film/Terrified


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3	"Terrified" (Spanish: "Aterrados") is a 2017 Argentine horror film written and directed by Demián Rugna. After a series of supernatural events in a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, paranormal experts investigate...
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6	!! ''Terrified (2017)'' contains examples of:
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8	* AlienGeometries: [[spoiler:The creature under Walter's bed is only visible when viewed from certain angles. Also, Jano becomes trapped inside a cabinet, but can be seen when viewed through the broken back of the cabinet.]]
9	* {{Bloodlust}}: The entity, or one of the entities, appears to enjoy drinking blood.
10	* BloodyHorror: [[spoiler:Clara's death.]] Also, [[spoiler:Rosentock's hand]] is pierced by a knife, which the entity proceeds to drink, and at one stage Nunes agitatedly explains to Albreck that what is happening to them must be real because his hands are covered in [[spoiler:Jano and Rosentock's]] blood.
11	* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Albreck]] after [[spoiler:she]] is reanimated is one particularly memorable example.
12	* BuriedAlive: Played with. [[spoiler:Alicia's son's corpse]] returns to the family home after his burial and the police find that his fingers are torn up, as if he had been scratching at the earth for days.
13	* CameBackWrong: Alicia’s son. Also, [[spoiler:Albreck]] returns, terrifyingly, as a broken-necked monstrosity running backwards at Funes’ car window. See also {{Inhuman Human}}.
14	* CuriosityKilledTheCast: [[spoiler:Jano, Albreck and Rosentock all meet their ends]] when investigating the haunted houses.
15	* CreepyChild: [[spoiler:Alice's son]] when he returns to the family home [[spoiler:after his funeral]].
16	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Jano is trapped inside a cupboard, his eyes are destroyed with glass fragments, and he later returns apparently as a ghost or apparition to try to stop Junes from burning down one of the houses. That is if [[FateWorseThanDeath he is really dead...]]]]
17	* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:Alice's son, although he seems reluctant to stay dead...]]
18	* DownerBeginning: [[spoiler:The film starts off strong, with Clara hearing voices coming from her kitchen sink plughole discussing her death, and then being horrifically killed by being levitated and slammed back and forth into her bathroom walls as her husband watches in horror.]]
19	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:By the end, it appears that the evil is undefeated and most of the characters have been claimed by the supernatural forces - and this is followed by the [[FlyAtTheCameraEnding Fly-at-the-Camera Ending.]]]]
20	* EvilSoundsRaspy: Juan hears evil-sounding rasping over the intercom when he goes round to his neighbour’s house to complain about the banging.
21	* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Jano]] when he blows out Funes’ match as he tries to burn down one of the houses, due to his having glass splinters in his eye.
22	* FateWorseThanDeath: It is implied that [[spoiler:Albreck]] is still alive and conscious after having [[spoiler:her]] neck broken and being bent over backwards. She shouts at Funes, after [[JumpScare running at his car window]], “You still have time. You need to save us! We’re being tortured!”
23	* FlyAtTheCameraEnding: The film ends with a chair, possibly just inhabited by [[spoiler:Rosentock’s burnt ghost]], suddenly flying at the camera.
24	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Possibly too small a word to describe how [[spoiler:Clara]] hears ghostly voices in her plughole plotting her death shortly before she is killed.
25	* ForTheEvulz: The supernatural forces appear to toy with and kill their victims with no apparent motive.
26	* FromBadToWorse: At the start of the film, the supernatural forces are [[spoiler:killing and reanimating]] the neighbourhood's residents. By the end of the film, [[spoiler:the entire neighbourhood is practically an [[EldritchLocation Eldritch Location]].]]
27	* GhostlyDeathReveal: Implied by the appearance of [[spoiler:Jano’s]] ghost, although ambiguous due to [[spoiler:Albreck]] apparently still possessing [[spoiler:her]] own senses after [[spoiler:her]] apparent death.
28	* HardToLightFire: As Funes tries to burn down one of the haunted houses, the ghost of [[spoiler:Jano]] appears beside him and blows out his match. He has to resort to a gunshot to light the gasoline.
29	* HauntedHouse: Multiple haunted houses for the price of one.
30	* HearingVoices: Right at the start of the film, Clara hears human voices coming from her plughole, which she claims are discussing killing her. [[spoiler:They act on his plan immediately after the film's title card.]]
31	* HeroicBSOD: Happens to Funes several times.
32	* HopeSpot: After Funes burns down the haunted houses, it appears that the evil may have been defeated... until Juan spots [[spoiler:the ghost of Rosenstock]] in the police station, followed by the [[FlyAtTheCameraEnding Fly-at-the-Camera Ending]].
33	* ImpaledPalm: This happens to [[spoiler:Rosentock]], and then... something... starts to suck up his blood.
34	* InescapableHorror: [[spoiler:The supernatural forces appear to be still at work at the end of the film.]]
35	* ItsProbablyNothing: Juan's reaction when Clara tells him that she heard voices in the plughole plotting her death. [[spoiler:He quickly turns out to be wrong.]]
36	* JumpScare: Multiple instances, most memorably when Jano, while moving his head from side to side, sees a figure right outside the window.
37	* KillItWithFire: Funes tries to stop the evil forces by burning down the houses.
38	* MindScrew: Much of the film consists of this trope.
39	* NeckSnap: How [[spoiler:Albreck]] is killed.
40	* NightmareFace: Post-reanimation [[spoiler:Albreck, Jano]], among others.
41	* NothingIsScarier: Although there is some educated speculation, we never find out what the supernatural forces are or what they want.
42	* OhCrap: Several occurrences, but a notable one is when [[spoiler:the naked creature emerges from the wardrobe behind Walter while he watches footage of it entering the wardrobe, and attacks him]].
43	* OneWordTitle
44	* PossessingADeadBody: Heavily implied with [[spoiler:Alicia’s son]].
45	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Funes, Jano, Albreck and Rosentock form an unlikely gang of supernatural investigators.
46	* RealityIsOutToLunch: Most of the haunted locations, such as under Walter's bed, the cupboard [[spoiler:Jano]] becomes trapped inside, etc.
47	* SafeUnderBlankets: Walter hides under his blankets when he fears that he is being haunted.
48	* SinisterNudity: The [[spoiler:creature(s)]] under Walter's bed.
49	* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Alicia’s son]]… although he [[CameBackWrong returns home after the funeral]]... as well as [[spoiler:Albreck]], although it is ambigious [[FateWorseThanDeath whether she in fact died]].
50	* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: Clara, very literally.
51	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Implied, although ambiguous, as the nature and number of the entity/entities is never explained.

Context Film / Terrified