Fear
Directed by Deon Taylor
A much needed getaway and a celebration weekend turns into a nightmare due to the contagious airborne threat.
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- jackmeatDecember 7, 2025My quick rating - 3.8/10. I had this one on Radarr for quite some time and I am not sure why, but time to find out. They had the focus completely wrong. Instead of trying so damn hard to make our paranoia about COVID the main point, that should've been the minor plot next to the major story of the witches practicing their ways at this lodge. But they went the other way around and spent entirely too much time hyping the lockdown thing after they, of course, made sure we knew the white guy brought all his black friends there. I don't even know why the makers think this is still a thing. It just seemed like they were trying to push that narrative a bit too much instead of worrying about the fact that the place they decided to vacation at was a coven of witches in the past. Nobody in this one looked familiar, and they did pull off an adequate job acting, considering the less-than-stellar dialogue they were handed. I am sure there are some outtakes of them joking, "I am supposed to say what???" Once the focus went to the more horror part of it, I did find it interesting enough. Deon Taylor does have a good eye for his shots and placement to get the impact from a scare scene, but there are so few in this that they just got drowned out by the artificial drama the story kept trying to interject. By the time any of the good stuff starts, I would think the average viewer has already abandoned this flick. And it is too bad since even with a limited budget, the effects were adequate enough and didn't have that cheap CGI feel to them. This isn't the first gig for Taylor, since at the very least he did a really good job with Black and Blue; however, it seems to be his first horror. Maybe next time he'll get handed a script that isn't fresh off the pandemic scare, so there won't be the same preoccupation that there was in this movie.
Fear Trivia
Fear was released on April 11, 2023.
Fear was directed by Deon Taylor.
Fear has a runtime of 1h 38m.
Fear was produced by Roxanne Avent Taylor, Omar Joseph, Heather Kritzer, Deon Taylor.
A much needed getaway and a celebration weekend turns into a nightmare due to the contagious airborne threat.
The key characters in Fear are Rom (Joseph Sikora), Benny (Andrew Bachelor), Bianca (Annie Ilonzeh).
Fear is rated R.
Fear is a Horror, Drama, Thriller film.
Fear has an audience rating of 3.7 out of 10.
Fear has made $2.1M at the box office.