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Fear [1996]
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too bad to be true...
Review date: 2007-05-29 Rating: 4 out of 10
Surely, James Foley's WORST movie. A sleazy imitation, an insipid mixture of "psycho haunts decent family" sub-genre of thrillers like "Cape Fear", "Fatal Attraction", "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle" and even "Straw Dogs".
This flick is lacking all four essential elements of a powerful movie: originality, believability, substance and style. Characters are unbelievably funny & silly, so are their affairs. Lines are cheesy, plot is predictable & stale. On the other hand, Carter Burwell's scores and Thomas Kloss' cinematography is surprising good, but not making "Fear" a decent movie.
The movie highlights the importance of "being daddy's girl", otherwise some fatal complications may arise as we see: a pretty, mini-skirted but naive & stupid 16-year old blonde Nicole lives with her overworked as well as overprotective dady, her stopmom and stepbrother. One day, thanks to paternal pressure, Nicole decides to put on her miniest-skirt, wears 5-gallons of makeup and cuts class with her promiscuous & drug-addict girlfriend and goes to a bar. There, at first sight she falls in love with billiard-playing, tight-bodied but half-brained hoodlum, David.
After several trysts, full of saliva-free kisses, one night David strips Nicole of her virginity. Then he becomes obsessive, overprotective and violent. Overwhelmed by his "shifted" personality, Nicole decides to leave him. Also, her daddy warns him to stay away. But ignoring warnings David goes berserk and unleashes terror by infiltrating her life, decapitating her dog, destroying daddy's car, demolishing their house, spilling blood, and ultimately taking their house hostage in a carbon-copied "Cape Fear" fashion which is replete with ridiculous, trite and stale scenes seen in cheap, B-grade horror flicks. The final scene is the most terrible of all, desperately imitating Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" but it screws up all the money and effort.
This is what it is. A nightmarish experience for mature, intelligent and conscious viewers. We have seen such craps zillions of times. I wonder how some gifted people opted to be involved in such an inane project. I'm giving 2 stars for sake of musical scores and cinematography.
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Amazing !
Review date: 2004-02-21 Rating: 8 out of 10
If there are any Reese Witherspoon fans out there, then this you must see this film.
It is a great film with terrific acting.It see Nicole (Reese witherspoon) meeting a guy and thinking that he is the one when all of a sudden he goes Psycho on her and her family. Mark Wahlberg plays the terrific stalker boyfriend David and charmed Star Alyssa Milano plays the tarty best friend Margo, which is a change from her normal role as good witch Phoebe on charmed. This is a good film that very different from other Reese witherspoon films like Legally Blonde as it is chilling and freaky. The situation that Nicole oes through could happen to anyone so this makes the film even more disturbing yet interesting. I suggest Reese fans see this film and even if you are not a Resse fan still watch it !!!!!!
Not a bad film
Review date: 2004-02-04 Rating: 8 out of 10
I first saw this film just after I had started watching Alyssa Milano in her tv show, Charmed. I was flicking channels, and was surprised to see her, and then even more surprised when she turned in such a different role to the ones I was used to seeing her in (though I later found out she had played similar characters before). Seeing her made me want to watch the film, and I was glad I did. It is relatively well acted, and has a good plotline, though they never quite explain why the boyfriend flips out, or how he gets a gang of people to follow him, apparently convinced that he is sane. The climax is pretty effective, (watch out for the dog in the door, you'll get a nasty surprise), and though it was not nearly the most frightening, or the most suspense filled film I have seen, I did want to watch to the end, if only to see how everything turned out. Not everyone's cup of tea, but not one to miss if you're a fan of anyone acting in it. Animal lovers, beware watching.
wow! a classic!
Review date: 2003-10-08 Rating: 10 out of 10
I just loved this film, I hate to think how many times I have watched it, you have the goodlooking "perfect" boyfriend who turns into a psycho obsessive partner - really great stuff, it had me on the edge of my seat and when it finished I wanted more .....
I need help here!!!
Review date: 2003-07-07 Rating: 8 out of 10
I am desperatly looking for the Sound Track to the movie. I have searched high and low for it and cannot find it anywhere - especially the song "Wild Horses", by The Sundays and The Indigo Girls....both whom do not have the song on any of their albums.
Please could SOMEONE let me know where to get it???
Many thanks....and oh yeah.....SUPERB MOVIE!!!!! A must have for Wahlburg fans!!!!
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Alyssa Milano
Reese Witherspoon
Mark Wahlberg
Amy Brenneman
William Petersen
Creators:
Mark Wahlberg (Primary Contributor)
Reese Witherspoon (Primary Contributor)
Thomas Kloss (Cinematographer)
David Brenner (Editor)
Brian Grazer (Producer)
Karen Kehela (Producer)
Karen Snow (Producer)
Ric Kidney (Producer)
Christopher Crowe (Writer)
Director(s):
Recording label: 4 Front Video
Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
EAN: 3259190358393
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen,
Release date: 2005-04-04
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 93 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1996-04-12
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired)
Language: Danish (Subtitled)
Language: Dutch (Subtitled)
Language: Finnish (Subtitled)
Language: German (Subtitled)
Language: Norwegian (Subtitled)
Language: Swedish (Subtitled)
Language: German (Dubbed)