Getting lost
while traveling is a fear we all have when driving in an area we are unfamiliar
with. It is also the jumping off point
for many a horror film. The search for
gas leads to Leatherface and family, skid off a desert road, you get cannibals,
take a wrong turn and you end up…in the movie “Wrong Turn”. The film “In Fear” takes a familiar horror
movie troupe and delivers a tense and claustrophobic drive through the woods
and into the heart of our worst fears.
Lucy (Alice
Englert) and Tom (Iain De Caestecker) is a new couple taking a trip to a music
festival with a side jaunt to a nice hotel, which happens to be in the middle
of nowhere. Apparently this is one of
those movies where characters believe everything they read on the
internet. Well it doesn’t take too long
for the couple to get lost in a labyrinth of back roads and deceiving
directional signs. Pretty soon after
they discover that someone or something is messing with them. With falling trees, belongings on the road,
and a mysterious stranger who may or may not be connected to it all.
Like I said,
there is not a lot of new territory covered here, and it has been done better elsewhere. However, I couldn’t help but be pulled in by
the events as they unfolded, the reactions by the two leads have an honesty and
a sense of realism going for it. It’s
not very scary, but I was very eager to see how it all played out, and there is
enough well placed jump scares to keep you into it. There are still moments that didn’t really
work, but when I decided to watch the ‘behind the scenes’ feature on the DVD, I
had a new respect for the filmmaking process.
Director Jeremy Lovering tried for something different here, something
again, that has been done before back in 1999, and I won’t tell you where, but
you’ll get it. Overall “In Fear” is just
a hair past unique enough to warrant a view, and I have to say I really love
the ending. Give it a watch.
--Robert L.
Castillo
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