In Fear

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Movie
German title In Fear
Original title In Fear
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Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
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Director Jeremy Lovering
script Jeremy Lovering
production James Biddle
Jonathan Amos
music Roly Porter
Daniel Pemberton
camera David Katznelson
cut Jonathan Amos
occupation

In Fear is a British horror film that premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival . The leading roles are played by Iain De Caestecker , Alice Englert and Allen Leech .

action

After dating for two weeks, Tom invites Lucy to go to a festival with him and a few friends. On the way, Tom apparently messes with a few guests in an Irish pub. When they go to the car afterwards, Tom tells Lucy that he has booked a room in a hotel for the night. This is off the beaten track in the Irish countryside. On the way to the hotel you come to a fork in the road. A sign shows the way to the hotel, but the direction does not correspond to the information on your GPS. You decide to follow the sign, but soon find yourself in a labyrinth of dirt roads, which are lined with overgrown hedges in a typical English / Irish style. Apparently they drive in a circle, because they always end up at the same intersection. Lucy finally calls the hotel to ask for directions, but the other person hangs up in the middle of the conversation. When Lucy's clothes suddenly lie on the way, they both get scared. Tom stops to collect the clothes. Lucy is waiting in the car when someone from outside the car seems to be plucking a strand of hair hanging from the car, shortly afterwards someone slams Tom's car door. When Tom “goes to pee” at another stop, Lucy sees a man with a white mask standing behind Tom in the dark. She screams for Tom, but he can't hear her. When he comes back to the car, she tells him about the man in fear, but Tom doesn't believe her. At another stop, someone reaches for Lucy out of the dark. They flee again in the car. Tom, who has been drinking in the meantime, now runs over a man. Shocked, the two stop and discuss whether to check on the man or just drive on. Tom finally gets out. In the meantime, however, the alleged victim sneaked in unnoticed and pushed onto the back seat of the car. He introduces himself as Max, has a cut over his left eye. Max asks whether it was they who attacked him from the dark and inflicted them on him. The two tell him that it is probably the guests from the pub who are following them. Max asks to be driven to the hotel so that he can call a doctor from there. He promises not to cause any trouble. Soon after, a couple of dead hares are hanging on a leash over the road, they drive through so that the carcasses drag along the windshield, which can be seen from the inside. Max explains the way to the hotel for Tom and Lucy, but they only come back to the already familiar intersection. Max now claims that the signs were reversed and that he can now remember the right way. Again they land at the intersection. Now the two want to throw Max out, but now it turns out that he was chasing them all the time and also hanging up the dead rabbits. Max threatens Lucy with an alleged knife and gives her the choice of which of the two to kill. First Lucy intends to sacrifice herself for Tom, but then decides that Max should kill Tom. However, Max has only played a bad game with the two of them, he has no knife at all. When Max turns away from outside the car and wants to leave, Tom takes his liquor bottle, falls out of the car and hits Max over the head. Then both fight in the mud, Tom succumbs and Max audibly breaks his hand. Max leaves, Tom and Lucy drive on. Now they are finally running out of gas that has been in short supply for a long time. They take their flashlights and try to find a way on foot. Tom is overwhelmed in a short scene by Max, who suddenly appears again. Lucy now finds herself alone in the pitch-dark forest, calling for Tom, but Tom has disappeared. She finds her way back to the car and comes across a petrol can. So she can go on. She actually finds the "hotel", which turns out to be a car junkyard. Max reappears and follows Lucy in his Land Rover. Lucy flees in the car, but Max soon caught up with her. Suddenly, however, Max breaks off the chase and pulls past with his car. Lucy stops and discovers a hose on the exhaust pipe that leads into the trunk. When she opens it, she finds Tom's body there, which Max has apparently tied up and put the tube into his mouth using a mask. Lucy drives on, in the early morning light we see her driving along a road in the open countryside. Suddenly Max is standing in the middle of the street, waving her over. Lucy steps on the accelerator in anger and races towards Max. He smiles expectantly. The credits begin a split second before she collides with him.

Locations

The film was shot mainly in Ireland, but also in Bodmin Moor in Cornwall .

criticism

“Jeremy Lovering's nifty little terror thriller, incidentally a British independent production in the low-budget format, manages to realistically depict fearful anxiety right from the start using atmospheric images and an atmosphere of insecurity. In contrast to the effectively inflated US cinema of this genre, there is no masked killer or any other iconic form of evil, but there is first a lot of psychological tension (also between Tom and Lucy) and then follows with a classically set shock the part that turns out to be an extremely perfidious game of disorientation and which can be described as a mixture of "Eden Lake" and "Hitcher". And it is precisely this lack of orientation that Jeremy Lovering casts into even frighteningly dark images around light and shadow by means of cinematic ideas such as blurring and accentuated lighting. The cryptic labyrinth of country lanes that actually exist in Great Britain, framed by tall hedges, does the rest. The fact that with “In Fear” (this title fits!) - as I said before - in contrast to US genre representatives, there is no prospect of redemption or even a happy ending, remains to be mentioned in passing, right? Conclusion: Although related to the recent Home Invasion films in a certain way, Jeremy Lovering's “In Fear” is much more original and, for the true pearl seeker among the genre fans, a profitable find. On BD and DVD 2.35: 1. With Iain De Caestecker, Alice Englert and Allen Leech. "

- Frank Trebbin

Publications

The film was released in Germany on August 21, 2014 by Studiocanal on DVD and Blu-ray.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Critique by Frank Trebbin in the online film database
  2. ^ Entry on the German DVD from StudioCanal in the online film database
  3. ^ Entry on the German Blu-ray Disc from StudioCanal in the online film database

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