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In Fear (2013)
Having already seen this movie before and not liking it, it's strange why I'd watch it again. For whatever reason, I couldn't get this movie out of my head recently. After seeing it again, I can't see how I didn't like it before. In Fear is certainly a strange movie; the entire plot unfolds inside a car on winding roads somewhere in Ireland. The movie almost creates this entire universe inside the maze of roads as a couple becomes lost and eventually pursued by some unknown person on the way to a music festival. The roads feel like their own villain, and along with some amazing cinematography, it gives a very disorienting and almost sinister character to them. The first half of the movie feels like The Blair Witch Project in a car. The couple, Lucy and Tom, returns to this same creepy cabin over and over, and the signs they are following to a hotel contradict themselves and seemingly switch directions. After an attack by a person in a white mask, they pick up a hitchhiker named Max, who claims to have also been attacked. Max adds an extra creep factor to the movie as he tells stories about a little boy who would run cars off the road and seems to know too much about Tom and the masked person. If there are any problems, then it's that this masked man can teleport around the maze and that the viewer will probably realize the identity of this masked man before the movie does, but In Fear is still a very intense and creepy movie that'll stay with you long after the credits roll. In Fear is on Netflix if you're interested.
8/10
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