Are You Scared?

Are You Scared? (2005): Are you ready for a massive ‘SAW’ rip-off? This one can be classified as a ‘teens in a box’ movie. This is sort of like a ‘dead teenager’ movie except it takes place in an abandoned building so the producer doesn’t have to spend money on sets and can get the building rented really cheap and everyone stays in the ‘box’ for the whole movie. Fill it with cheap actors; steal a plot from a decent movie and you can make a really bad movie for very little money.

Not only did they steal the major plot line but the gimmick used to get the movie started was to make the victims think they were on a reality TV show called ‘Are You Scared?’ Now ask yourself, if you woke up in an abandoned industrial building with a bunch of strangers, and didn’t remember how you got there, wouldn’t you be just a little suspicious that things weren’t quite right. But not these folks, they just go walking into the traps with eyes wide open until the population is severely reduced. And, oh yes, after the titles roll, the black guy is the first to get it. And he even had a new incision in his abdomen made while he was out cold and didn’t suspect a thing was out of the ordinary! Give me a break!
At least in SAW there was an attempt at having a moral to the tale for each victim and each victim had a slight chance to survive. These poor sods couldn’t complete the tasks assigned unless they were superhuman or superman or at least not anywhere nearly as neurotic as they seemed and you can be sure all are dead meat once initiating the set piece carnage scenes. And most of the victims are innocent bystanders with only one or two really being sort of bad. Avoid this one and watch the real SAW movies if you like that sort of thing. The flick is rated R for: beheading, benecking, befacing, befooting, forehead drilling, massive shot gunning, massive burning, and for a massive technical error regarding the explosive properties of gasoline.