In Fear

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 couple very early in their courting relationship are driving across rural Ireland to a music festival. After a fraught stop at a local public house, t...

"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 does help create a slight sense of peril, but the story is so very derivative and the acting is college project stuff. I challenge anyone not to have gue...