"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...
Terrified (2017) contains examples of:
- Alien Geometries: 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.
- Bloodlust: The entity, or one of the entities, appears to enjoy drinking blood.
- Bloody Horror: Clara's death. Also, 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 Jano and Rosentock's blood.
- Body Horror: Albreck after she is reanimated is one particularly memorable example.
- Buried Alive: Played with. 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.
- Came Back Wrong: Alicia’s son. Also, Albreck returns, terrifyingly, as a broken-necked monstrosity running backwards at Funes’ car window. See also Inhuman Human.
- Curiosity Killed the Cast: Jano, Albreck and Rosentock all meet their ends when investigating the haunted houses.
- Creepy Child: Alice's son when he returns to the family home after his funeral.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: 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 he is really dead...
- Death of a Child: Alice's son, although he seems reluctant to stay dead...
- Downer Beginning: 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.
- Downer Ending: 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 Fly-at-the-Camera Ending.
- Evil Sounds Raspy: Juan hears evil-sounding rasping over the intercom when he goes round to his neighbour’s house to complain about the banging.
- Eye Scream: 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.
- Fate Worse than Death: It is implied that Albreck is still alive and conscious after having her neck broken and being bent over backwards. She shouts at Funes, after running at his car window, “You still have time. You need to save us! We’re being tortured!”
- Fly-at-the-Camera Ending: The film ends with a chair, possibly just inhabited by Rosentock’s burnt ghost, suddenly flying at the camera.
- Foreshadowing: Possibly too small a word to describe how Clara hears ghostly voices in her plughole plotting her death shortly before she is killed.
- For the Evulz: The supernatural forces appear to toy with and kill their victims with no apparent motive.
- From Bad to Worse: At the start of the film, the supernatural forces are killing and reanimating the neighbourhood's residents. By the end of the film, the entire neighbourhood is practically an Eldritch Location.
- Ghostly Death Reveal: Implied by the appearance of Jano’s ghost, although ambiguous due to Albreck apparently still possessing her own senses after her apparent death.
- Hard-to-Light Fire: As Funes tries to burn down one of the haunted houses, the ghost of Jano appears beside him and blows out his match. He has to resort to a gunshot to light the gasoline.
- Haunted House: Multiple haunted houses for the price of one.
- Hearing Voices: Right at the start of the film, Clara hears human voices coming from her plughole, which she claims are discussing killing her. They act on his plan immediately after the film's title card.
- Heroic BSoD: Happens to Funes several times.
- Hope Spot: After Funes burns down the haunted houses, it appears that the evil may have been defeated... until Juan spots the ghost of Rosenstock in the police station, followed by the Fly-at-the-Camera Ending.
- Impaled Palm: This happens to Rosentock, and then... something... starts to suck up his blood.
- Inescapable Horror: The supernatural forces appear to be still at work at the end of the film.
- It's Probably Nothing: Juan's reaction when Clara tells him that she heard voices in the plughole plotting her death. He quickly turns out to be wrong.
- Jump Scare: Multiple instances, most memorably when Jano, while moving his head from side to side, sees a figure right outside the window.
- Kill It with Fire: Funes tries to stop the evil forces by burning down the houses.
- Mind Screw: Much of the film consists of this trope.
- Neck Snap: How Albreck is killed.
- Nightmare Face: Post-reanimation Albreck, Jano, among others.
- Nothing Is Scarier: Although there is some educated speculation, we never find out what the supernatural forces are or what they want.
- Oh, Crap!: Several occurrences, but a notable one is when the naked creature emerges from the wardrobe behind Walter while he watches footage of it entering the wardrobe, and attacks him.
- One-Word Title
- Possessing a Dead Body: Heavily implied with Alicia’s son.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Funes, Jano, Albreck and Rosentock form an unlikely gang of supernatural investigators.
- Reality Is Out to Lunch: Most of the haunted locations, such as under Walter's bed, the cupboard Jano becomes trapped inside, etc.
- Safe Under Blankets: Walter hides under his blankets when he fears that he is being haunted.
- Sinister Nudity: The creature(s) under Walter's bed.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: Alicia’s son… although he returns home after the funeral... as well as Albreck, although it is ambigious whether she in fact died.
- Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: Clara, very literally.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Implied, although ambiguous, as the nature and number of the entity/entities is never explained.
- Who You Gonna Call?: After Alicia's son's corpse apparently returns to her house after his funeral, police commissioner Funes decides he is out of his depth and seeks reinforcements with experience with the supernatural in Jano, followed by Albreck and Rosentock.
