I hadn't watched Fear since it was originally released. Man, it is way more tense than I remember.
What starts as a fun 1990s time capsule, quickly turns into a dark thriller, then an even more intense home-invasion horror movie.
The movie is about a toxic relationship - and I'm just saying toxic to save time here - between Nicole, and David. Nicole is a high-school girl, she meets David, who seems to be the perfect guy, but the mask soon starts to slip.
The performances are all pretty solid here, even Marky Mark, in his first leading role.
Alyssa Milano was great here, too bad she didn't have a bigger part.
I really like the soundtrack, featuring not one, but two songs from Bush.
Totally worth a watch. Very '90s. I'd recommend this to fans of The Crush (1993).
Behind the nostalgia inducing baggy checked shirts, GameBoys and oppressively 90s soundtrack is a decent sociopathic villain, it's just a shame he's imbued in bottomless melodrama and endless soap-operatic conflict that cheapens any level of tension before it has a chance to grip. I'm sure many will get a kick out of the campiness and memeworthy cringe, but it only served to annoy and frustrate me.
Dude everytime I thought David was crazy, he got crazier.
Such a crap. Oh my god.
Probably shouldn't have watched this after seeing 'Wild Things'... It was a bit of a let down.
So this movie popped up in a list of movies to watch after you've seen Wild Things and thus I did... expecting some of the same.
This one is a classic tale of 'should've listened to dad'. A quality cast with a thin story.
David is the mystery boy who says all the right things and it is no wonder Nicole falls fast and hard for him... Dad has his doubts from the start which he has every reason too as it turns out. Amy Brenneman portrays the 'evil' turned good stepmom Laura, who does a full 180 when Nicole suffers from her first heartbreak and comes home with a black eye that David caused after battling her bestie (who I know in modern day would've been written as the gay bestie) whom he thinks puts a move on his girl.
The story progresses too slow for my taste. We see David get progressively more aggressive but most of it is dirty looks and the occasional words with Nicole's dad. When he finally hits full creep mode he rapes Margo (who we get to know as a flirt and is therefore not believed by Nicole... they are both bad friends in my opinion) and kills the other bestie and gets a homemade tattoo???
Nicole's dad makes the dumbest mistake to trash David and his creepy friends place which leads to them wanting revenge on the whole family. It all escalates in hyperspeed with a lot of violence and a mediocre conclusion.
Okay-ish movie but I wouldn't recommend it, definitely not after watching Wild Things. There are better movies in the genre.
Pretty good movie despite a very graphic, unnecessary and disturbing dog death.
If Dawson's Creek went R-Rated...
Very 90s. I saw this 20 years ago on TV but had forgotten much of the plot. I recalled the final act quite well though and that is indeed the better part of the movie.
Quite tense in parts. Mark Wahlberg acts okay for one of his earliest roles.
It is watchable if not spectacular.
6/10
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Nothing says I love you like throwing your daughters boyfriend out the window.