Scared Stiff (1987)

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

Absolutely Fantastic

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

David Ramsey playing white Plantation OWNER David Masterson and husband of wife Elizabeth Masterson, incorrectly displayed on this IMDb cast info! The popular black actor you picture, was a white man when he was in this film 28 years ago ???? I just viewed a recent purchase of this "Tara Terror". "As God as my witness...I will never go scared again!" How could such a glaring mistaken identity occur? The pop stars "Beat of the Heart" is pleasantly 80's. The music video with same song is fun. The plantation owner / song writer tune an interesting twist. The young son Josh reminds one of similar characters in B films like "Cameron' Closet" etc....innocent, gifted children pursued by evil forces. Watch Andrew Stevens tell Josh how to play games on dated computer formats. Fun stuff down South. Respectively Robert in Atlanta

A prologue takes us to 1857 where an evil slave trader named George Masterson (Ramsey) has a curse put on him by his wife and some slaves in the attic of his house. The slaves give the wife a stone that will protect her and her son from the evil George. Jump 130 years and Dr. David Young (Stevens) moves into the same house with his girlfriend Kate (Keller) who at one time was a mental patient of his and her son (Segal). Kate starts having nightmares and hallucinations while David starts becoming abusive and acting like the former owner of the house. This is pretty standard low budget fair for the mid 1980's. There are a lot of nightmares (the Elm Street influence) but some of them are effective at getting a few good scares. Masterson is a good old fashioned monster and his visions and appearance is unsettling and scary. The movie splits in two with Kate and her boy having nightmares and David being possessed by Masterson's spirit. This gives the movie a very uneven feel and would have worked better as a whole if they had chosen one clear path. Still, Director Richard Friedman has some good moments like the ending dream state Kate and her son are in, is quite unpredictable and manages some suspense. Stevens is very wooden in the lead role which doesn't help. Scared Stiff is good as a decent time waster which will deliver a few scares and chills along the way.

dumb flick is silly and laughable and poor,y made and written and suffers from all kinds of cliches it has boring dialog way too talky first half laughable scenes that are supposed to be suspenseful but turn out to be laughable and the acting is not all that great Andrew Stevens does okay but is in a terrible movie not much ya can do there Mary Page Keller had awful dialog to spurt out and wasn't all that great we also have a child actor that is ugly and gap toothed i have no problems with that but i have a problem with whiny kids they irritate me which is why i won't be having kids when i get married right away anyway back to the review and plus this has done before lots of times and done better at that! also there is a funny moment where those toy cars come to life and start working and another laughable moment when the kid smashes a light bulb on the Stevens head it looked so fake he hardly even hit him! it also has plenty of gore in fact lots of it but it looks laughable and the finale is way to silly for it's own good overall a cheesy bore not worth it! AVOID!!! BOMB out of 5

This movie is really that bad. It has no in depth suspense or plot. The characters remain lost and the acting. Huh! Don't get me started. Do not watch this movie under any cost please! There are only about 2 killings and the voodoo story is rubbish. A more than it deserved 1 out of 10. I would have given it nothing!