In Fear (2013)

John Chard

9.0

Oct 30, 2015

The Dead End Date! To be honest, I wasn't at all surprised to find that after viewing Jeremy Lovering's "In Fear" that the hatred for it on internet sites was large. It's that type of film, a film existing in the horror field of things that can cause mass debate, disappointments for those after a jolting or gory shocker, and yet there's also pleasures that some have found in it. If you have seen it and hate it then there's no need to read on, I got nothing for you, this is purely a review by someone who loved it and hopes that anyone who hasn't seen it may just give it a chance. A young…

CinemaSerf

5.0

Jan 3, 2023

"Tom" (Iain De Caestecker) and his girlfriend "Lucy" (Alice Englert) are heading to a music festival in Ireland when they manage to get themselves lost. The quiet and dark country lanes begin to seem more menacing, they see strange things hanging from the trees (not the audience, quite yet) and then they almost kill "Max" (Allen Leech). The atmosphere inside their car, with their bleeding passenger antagonising merrily, gradually worsens until tempers flare and perhaps, - no kidding - "Max" isn't quite what he originally appeared to be. To be fair to auteur Jeremy Lovering, the photography doe…

The Forest at night look terrifying, and I thought they were just spooky in daylight. Our actors are portraying their characters with great effectiveness, I'm having trouble not wishing them a terrifyingly horrible adventure. It just got scary, I nearly dropped my drink. We've another player on the board now, unsure of his status or his true intentions for now. If your still here, then you've got to freaking be losing your mind about now. ...Sadism at its ugly worst...