I watched creepy and nerve shredding British horror film
In Fear a couple of nights ago.
The film is largely ad libbed, with the actors genuinely not knowing what was going to happen next.
A young couple from Britain, Tom (Iain de Caestecker) and Lucy (the Anglo-Australian who is half-New Zealander), are in Ireland to attend a music festival.
They drive through the remote Irish countryside looking for a hotel to spend the night, but soon get lost. The signs pointing them to the hotel seem useless as the pair keep finding themselves back in the same place over and over again.
As darkness falls and their only good source of light is their car's headlights, they soon realise that somebody (or something) is tormenting them - someone or something unseen, hell-bent on exploiting their worst nightmares.
Soon primal anxieties of the dark and the unknown take hold as the couple realizes that they may have to, literally, let the evil in....
What makes this film different from others is that TV director Jeremy Lovering, making his first feature film, filmed his two lead actors driving around a series of desolate country roads (with Cornwall acting as Ireland), only drip-feeding them essential story information, so that most of the time the two actors didn't know what was coming. In fact, during breaks in filming, the two actors would give their theories as to what they they think will happen and what they think is happening. The result is that when each shocking, horror moment occurs it is as much of a surprise to the actors as it is to the viewer, with them not actually expecting it to happen, with the result that when they seem confused – or terrified – they GENUINELY are, resulting in moments of ad libbing and genuine shock and fright.
The result is more Sartrean trap than slasher film, and the actors’ palpable unease soon seeps into your bones.
IN FEAR Trailer (2013) - YouTube
