该电影由William Malone执导，John Stinson、Diana Davidson、Jonathan David Moses等主演，于1981年上映。在93分钟的叙事中，《吓得要死》（又名：Syngenor）An ex-cop, now working as a hack novelist, is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the work of the Syngenor - the synthesized genetic organism!