A doctor works to cure patients suffering from crippling phobias by placing them inside his invention, which induces and controls hallucinations.A doctor works to cure patients suffering from crippling phobias by placing them inside his invention, which induces and controls hallucinations.A doctor works to cure patients suffering from crippling phobias by placing them inside his invention, which induces and controls hallucinations.
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- TriviaDuring the scene when Caylee (Angelina Armani) is asked what her brother is wearing, he is shown to be wearing a Slipknot t-shirt, a reference to Corey Taylor's band
- GoofsWhen Blake is introduced, a gunshot scar can be seen in the right side of his head. A few scenes later, the scar is on the left side of his head. After that scene, the scar is on the right again.
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Dr. Andover: I was always taught you had to live with it, accept it. I watched as others fought back. Agoraphobia, nyctophobia, hydrophobia, acrophobia. There are literally thousands of classified phobias. I figured out a way to give my patients a fresh start without the inhibitions and restrictions their phobias had placed in their lives.
- Crazy creditsAt the end of the credits, a voice saying "fear never dies" can be heard.
- ConnectionsEdited into Stone Sour: The Dark (2015)
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Performed by Stone Sour
Written by David Wayne Carnell, Kurdt York Vanderhoof, Craig Wells
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However, this doesn't stop his test groups' faith in him. They all return to his clinic for further treatment, being locked up in a weird, sensory deprivation tank and forced to face their fears. But something evil, even supernatural, is lurking in the abyss he thrusts his patients into. It is fear itself, hence the title.
Feart Itself is fairly above average for low budget horror, but you really have to be patient with it. In fact, I have to say the filmmaker, the man behind the middling Laid to Rest movies, requests an unreasonable amount of patience from his viewers. It does not help that movie's production design is atrocious, all neon green lights and phony looking scientific equipment that reminds of the worst elements of 80's horror.
That's the bad part. The good part is that movie has a really good cast behind it. Robert Englund, in a role very different from his mad scientist portrayal in the original Fear Itself series, does a really good job as the benevolent but uncertain doctor. The female lead, Fiona Dourif (who was last seen costarring with her father Brad Dourif in Curse of Chucky) is an outstanding and unconventional horror heroine, more believably smart and capable than most of the female leads in these types of movies. Thomas Dekker also does a fantastic job portraying a troubled young man with a traumatic brain injury. Rounding out the cast are mostly adequate, if not entirely impressive, supporting players like Kevin Gage (Strangeland, Heat) as a crotchety maintenance man, Corey Taylor (that's right, the lead singer of Slipknot and Stone Sour in his first film, and he probably shouldn't quit his day job) as the hotheaded chief orderly, and several vaguely familiar actors as the other patients.
The cast, along with a really solid third act that includes a genuinely surprising twist and some cool creature FX from Robert Kurtzman, make this worth watching for horror fans, but just barely. The movie has major pacing problems, a weak first half, and can never overcome its low budget trappings but it shows glimmers of promise from almost everyone involved making this a more or less entertaining, watchable low budget horror movie.
- Kolobos51
- Feb 13, 2015
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- Budget
- $1,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $106,974
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1