Scared to Death

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John C @RT25427934 03/26/2025 First of all, I know it's petty - but the title. We all know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, so you shouldn't base your opinion on a film's title. But 'Scared to Death' sounds more like some psychological horror or slasher film. It's not. It's a 'monster munching' movie, more akin to a (low budget!) 'Alien' rip-off. Anyway, there's a monster rampaging round an American city, murdering hapless extras and the police are baffled until a local private detective teams up with the obligatory love interest to save the day. There's not an awful lot to say about the film. As I mentioned, it's set on Earth, therefore there are no outstanding science fiction sets to speak of. The acting and dialogue is passable at best and there's really nothing you haven't seen before if you're a fan of the genre. I will mention I actually quite liked the creature itself. It reminded me of something out of the mind of HR Giger (who actually designed the xenomorph from 'Alien'), but it's ruined by budget constrains preventing it from being particularly well animated in its facial movements, making it end up like just a man in a rubber suit from a 70s 'Dr Who.' If you really want to watch yet another 'monster movie' then there are definitely worse. It's not offensively bad, but it's not great either, relying on long scenes of victims quietly walking around deserted places before ultimately meeting their doom. Even fast forwarding them until the kill itself made the film drag. Just watch 'Alien' or 'Species.' Oh, and there's a bit which made me laugh and think they ripped off 'The Terminator.' Then I realised this film was made four years before that classic. So, er, fair play to 'Scared to Death' for beating James Cameron to the punch on that one! See more Ian S @RT48225084 02/23/2025 B grader. can be watched with one eye open. A pretty dull affair with some awful acting. Not the absolute worst but on the way......... See more 10/09/2021 William Malone wanted to be a director and decided that a horror movie was the way to go. After all, he'd made monster masks at a factory so he could make the monster himself. And by that, I mean spend three months making an H.R. Giger clone. Then he sold his car, mortgaged his house and somehow got Rick Springfield to be in this, but he dropped out the night before shooting started, which feels like a total kayfabe story. This might seem like a slasher, but then you learn that the killer is drinking spinal fluid and this woman just shows up and says, "Oh, I worked at the lab where we made a creature named the Syngenor that lives off spine juice. And in case you wonder, the name means SYNthesized GENetic ORgansism." Yes, the very same Syngenor that Re-Animator villain David Gale goes absolutely full-on bonkers within. That's why when this movie was released to DVD, it got the new title Scared to Death: Syngenor. Malone would move on to make Creature, House on Haunted Hill, feardotcom and Parasomnia. If we let him make another movie, I really worry what the title will be. I have no idea who let him make a film again after feardotcom because not even my steady diet of Franco and Mattei could get me through that movie. See more 06/20/2017 The is low-budget horror trash. See more 11/18/2011 pfffffffffffffffff. ez mà (C)g nekem is sok volt, vagyis inkább kevà (C)s. See more 05/04/2011 Not great but I bought this for nostalgic reasons anyway. Good f/x but the slow pacing is really what's killing the movie. Ugly late 70s fashion adds to the unwanted hilarity. See more Read all reviews

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