Psychological horror following a young couple fighting to survive one night-turned-nightmare when they realise - while lost en route to...
Psychological horror following a young couple fighting to survive one night-turned-nightmare when they realise - while lost en route to a music festival in Ireland - that someone or something in the encroaching woods is out to get them. Billed as "home invasion, but in a car".
"Driving to a music festival, Tom and Lucy have plans to stay at a countryside hotel. But with hotel signs leading them in circles and darkness falling, they soon become lost in a maze of country roads… and the target of an unknown tormentor. Reminiscent of vintage psychological thrillers and bolstered by newcomers Iain De Caestecker and Alice Englert in its main roles, In Fear plays out in real time... Looking to shed pretense and genuinely scare his actors, [writer-director Jeremy] Lovering withheld the script and often concealed what was about to happen to the characters. Add a dark forest, and the fear became real." (Sundance Film Festival)
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81 %58 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
41 %8,760 reviewsAudience score rating
"Paranoia aplenty in this sharp-looking Sundance midnight movie, making it hard to imagine another director getting anywhere near this much mileage out of three actors and a car."
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Variety
Variety"A taut, chilling little horror-thriller making maximum use of minimal resources to tap into our primal fears of the unknown."
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Total Film
Total Film"Rarely have so few commonplace ingredients produced so many uncommon chills."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Lets its increasingly rattled characters stew for as long as possible before gradually revealing its hand, improvisation adding to the credibility of the couple's unravelling behaviour."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"A smart, disturbing exercise in anxiety."
—The Guardian
The Guardian"As an exercise in stomach-knotting, In Fear is mildly successful."
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The Dissolve
The Dissolve"A compact, effective thriller."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"It may be contrived and nothing new plot-wise, but has atmosphere and enough proper scares to deliver on the promise of its title."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineIn Fear | Details
- Rating
- R16,
- Runtime
- 85
- Genre
- Horror, Thriller
- Country of origin
- UK
