Terrified (2017)

Episode 456, 2 Guys and a Chainsaw Horror Movie Review Podcast

Todd: Hello and welcome to another episode of Two Guys and a Chainsaw. I’m Todd.

Craig: And I’m Craig.

Todd: Well, it’s about time for another request. As always, we take a few of the requests that we’ve received that we put on our long request pile. And those come from all over. Those come from Facebook. They come from people posting on our website from YouTube comments, even a one or two on Instagram, things like that.

And we, we put them in a big pile and then we draw a few out every now and then and send them to our patrons as a quiz. Metaphorically. Yeah, metaphorically, of course. 

Craig: That’s hilarious. Like I just. See you like printing them out and can you imagine That would 

Todd: be so me though, I, if I was bored enough, it might be something mystical I would try to do to bring some mystery to the process.

No, we just like go through and I, I honestly kind of go like, oh, which of these do we, are we really gonna get excited about? Yeah. You know? Sure. And then maybe throw in one that we don’t know anything about that we might not get excited about, but you know. 

Craig: Yeah. We’re, 

Todd: we’re fair. Anyway, this request that came through from the patrons, they really wanted us to do 2000 seventeens.

Terrified. An Argentinian film that I think was distributed here on Shutter more than anything else. It had a very limited release in Argentina, and I think also in a few horror festivals where it did quite well. But you know, from 2017 and to me, 2017, I think, oh, that, that wasn’t that long ago. Actually, it’s like eight years ago.

Right? So. God, I had just moved to China when this came out. That’s probably why I don’t know much about it. 

Craig: Yeah, I, I mean, I, I I measure my life in pre and post pandemic. So you go, so this was pre pandemic. That was a long time ago. 

Todd: God Pre pandemic by a few years. It’s crazy. Well, here we are, uh, 20 seventeens terrified.

The director is Demian rug and he most recently did when Evil lurks 2023. Did you ever see that? Uh, I want to say yes. But I don’t remember. I’m gonna look it up while you’re talking. All right. It was really, it was all over shutter and the different streaming services, I think heavily promoted on Netflix when it came out too.

I ended up seeing it and I put a pin in it thinking we should do this on the podcast at some point. And I think it has also been requested, so we will probably get to it. I could tell this is almost a warmup for when Evil lurks, ’cause it sort of has. We have seen it. We’ve done 

Craig: it 

Todd: recently. Did we? Oh 

Craig: yeah, that’s right.

And we both, and we both really liked it.

Oh my God, what’s wrong with me? It was really good. It was that one where like there was just some like evil entity that was infecting people and those two brothers tried to get rid of it by getting rid of that big gross, fat guy that was infected. Yes. That he fell out of the truck and then there passed down.

Yeah. It was great. Oh, it was wonderful. I didn’t know it was the same guy, but now that I do, that makes a lot of sense. It makes a lot of sense. 

Todd: It is very stylistically similar, isn’t it? Yeah. It almost feels like a rehearsal for that movie, like he had the idea for both. Anyway, I saw this movie described on Wikipedia as a hyperlink.

Supernatural horror film. Have you ever heard that term before, a hyperlink film? No. So according to Wikipedia, hyperlink cinema is a style of filmmaking characterized by complex or multiline narrative structures with multiple characters under one unifying theme. Okay. Yeah, you can kind of see what they’re talking about here.

We’re playing here with time a little bit. There’s time jumps. There’s sort of parallel stories in a way with these, especially as we get into the fighting the entity with different characters in different locations. Yeah. At the same time, 

Craig: that’s, that’s funny because that’s one of the things that I found most interesting about this film is that ultimately somebody who feels like a side character ultimately becomes.

The main character. Mm. At least in my view. And I was surprised by that. And I, I don’t know. I liked it, I guess, but yeah, it, that makes sense. That hyperlink idea that it’s just a bunch of characters who are kind of connected by a central story, but there’s not necessarily a protagonist. Mm-hmm. That’s, that’s interesting.

Todd: It is. And also, you know, kind of follows through, I wonder if they call one evil alerts a hyperlink film too, because I sort of feel like that is a little bit. Like that. Although when Evil lurks followed more of a linear progression, there wasn’t a lot of time jumping in that one. 

Craig: Yeah, I see how when Evil Lurks could have been, I don’t think that it was at least as, not as much as this one because it followed that one dad for, you know, the, that one.

Yeah. Dad was mostly the main character, but it could have done the same thing that it did here, you know? ’cause it’s kind of a, in fact, I think that it might have worked even. Better. I don’t know. It just would’ve been different for when evil lurks, because that was more of a community thing. Yeah. This is really local.

Yeah. You know, like there’s, there’s a, it’s, it’s, it involves a small group of people in this small area of space and the people who are interested in that small area of space. Whereas when evil looked, felt like. This could be large 

Todd: scale. Yeah, it wa it was everywhere. It did. Well, it kind of became large scale, didn’t it?

Yeah. It seems like it moved through the country pretty quickly once it got out, right? Yeah. Oh God. Isn’t that hilarious? That I totally forgot w