WATCH: Terrifying Clown Leads Masked Trio Threatening to Kill Family in Chilling VA Break-In Attempt

A Virginia family say they were left “in fear” after three masked intruders tried to break into their home, threatening to kill them in a chilling encounter caught on doorbell cam footage.

The video, filmed at around 10 p.m. local time in Alexandria on Tuesday, shows three figures—one dressed as horror icon Michael Myers, another as a clown, and a third as a sinister nun—pounding on the front door.

“It’s either you coming out or we coming in,” one of them shouted. “Open the door!”

Another said: “It’s your worst nightmare!”

“At first I thought it was just a Halloween joke,” Shayla, daughter of the widowed homeowner, told the New York Post. “So I said, ‘Happy Halloween.'”

But as pounding grew louder, “my heart dropped when they said they were gonna take a chair and break down the door,” she said. “That is just too much.”

The group then moved to the back of the home, breaking through a wooden fence and slashing open deck screens before fleeing.

Alexandria Police Chief Tarrik McGuire described the case as a “very serious matter,” warning that the suspects’ actions “constitute burglary” under Virginia law.

“They began to make threatening and alarming comments to the family. Specifically, they said, ‘If you do not come out, we will come in,’ and also threatened to do bodily harm, stating that they would ultimately kill them,” McGuire said.

Shayla later reflected on how differently the night might have ended.

“Our Second Amendment right was not used – and could have been,” she said.

Police are now reviewing nearby surveillance footage as the search for the suspects continues.

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