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When 16-year-old Nicole Walker (Reese Witherspoon) meets 23-year-old David McCall (Mark Wahlberg) at a Seattle nightclub, she falls in love. David is exciting and charming, and despite the wide ...
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Fear opens with unsettling imagery that brings to mind some of the early Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson music videos, or the opening titles of American Horror Story, setting an efficiently creepy tone. That atmosphere remains throughout the film, but it actually takes about 35 minutes to establish any actual horror in Fear. This isn't necessari...
After the film's extensive set-up, an effective sense of dread builds when the group, who are already paranoid about COVID-19, watch news broadcasts of an even more dangerous and contagious virus. They're told to not even go outside, but begin to have suspicions about at least one of their own, who appears to be sick. Paranoia escalates into abrasi...
Fear becomes relentless, gruesome, and surprising. The visualizations Taylor creates (and the ways in which cinematographer Christopher Duskin and Encore VFX realize them) are memorably haunting. The aural and visual textures of these hallucinations are great; distortion, lighting, sound design, visual effects, and good performances come together t...
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Mar 10, 2024 · Ultimately, David's attempts to control Nicole resulted in the death of his friends and himself. Through David and Steve, Fear showed that attempting to control another person is foolhardy and that it often leads to people getting hurt. Steve's biggest fear was losing control, and when David and his friends attacked and captured him, they took ...
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Mar 10, 2022 · Reviews; Mar 10, 2022 6:09am PT ‘Fear’ Review: A Warm Charmer of a Social Satire Addressing Refugee Fears in Bulgaria Last year's Bulgarian Oscar submission, Ivaylo Hristov's film is a ...
Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 17, 2022. Shot in stark, high-contrast black and white, Fear is a no-frills film that relies on the strength of its script and central performances to get ...
Jan 26, 2023 · Fear, 2023. Directed by Deon Taylor. Starring Joseph Sikora, Ruby Modine, Iddo Goldberg, Andrew Bachelor, Annie Ilonzeh, T.I., Terrence Jenkins, Jessica Allain, Tyler ...
Jan 27, 2023 · Fear begins to feel like it’s painting by numbers. Within that first act is a greatest-hits selection of horror tropes: the creepy caretaker who relays cryptic messages, the eerily empty lodge ...
