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Fear X

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Fear X (2003)

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Reviews Counted:32

Fresh:18

Rotten:14

Average Rating:5.8/10

Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Grief-stricken Harry Cain (John Turturro, BARTON FINK) works as a security guard in the Wisconsin mall where his pregnant wife, Kate (Deborah Kara Unger, LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG), was recently... Grief-stricken Harry Cain (John Turturro, BARTON FINK) works as a security guard in the Wisconsin mall where his pregnant wife, Kate (Deborah Kara Unger, LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG), was recently shot to death in an apparently unmotivated crime. By night he meticulously culls hours of the mall's surveillance video in hopes of finding a clue to the mystery of her death; his clue, however, comes in the form of a dream. He follows it as far as Montana, where he stumbles upon an unsuspected conspiracy and the slowly emerging realization that there was much in Kate's life of which he was unaware. A successful blend of existential themes and the tropes of the thriller, this oneiric film evokes David Lynch in its haunting abstractions, augmented by a sparse, eerie score from Brian Eno. [More]

Starring: John Turturro, Deborah Unger, James Remar, Jacqueline Ramel

Starring: John Turturro, Deborah Unger, James Remar, Jacqueline Ramel, Stephen McIntyre, William Allen Young

Director: Nicholas Winding Refn

Director: Nicholas Winding Refn
Screenwriter: Hubert Selby, Jr., Nicholas Winding Refn
Producer: Henrik Danstrup
Studio: Silver Nitrate Films

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Reviews for Fear X

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04/09/04
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An atmospheric but unsatisfying mystery chiller.

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03/24/04
Jamie Russell
Jamie Russell
BBC
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Refn seems overly pleased with his own cleverness, laying on the hypnotic austerity a bit thickly.

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01/23/04
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Slick thriller.

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12/31/08
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A Middle American psychological crime thriller agreat portion of which plays out none too rationally inside its protagonist's head.

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03/23/07
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
Long Island Press

What happens afterwards, in Refn and the late Hubert Selby, Jr.'s can't-resist-obscurity-and-ambiguity screenplay will disappoint most filmgoers.

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03/01/07
Bruce Feld
Bruce Feld
Film Journal International

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12/06/05
Film Threat
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Frustratingly opaque by design, Fear X offers viewers insufficient fear and excessive "X."

Full Review Source: All Movie Guide | comment Comment
08/04/05
Josh Ralske
Josh Ralske
All Movie Guide

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02/06/05
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

Imagine an hour of birds flying backwards and rooms with red curtains, and there’s the rest of your movie.

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02/03/05
Larry Carroll
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02/02/05
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It's a fundamentally Scandinavian movie, a hyperintense meditation on death and destiny set amid a bleak wintry landscape and played out by the emotionally devastated.

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02/02/05
Rob Vaux
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium

As the film builds, director Refn skillfully allows Harry to get both closer and farther away form his goal, like an optical illusion.

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02/01/05
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Turturro's clammy, lumpen Cain is a profoundly disagreeable guide down the rabbit hole of hallucinatory paranoia.

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01/28/05
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

This X doesn't mark the spot.

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01/28/05
E! Online
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A pretentious, unsatisfying and ultra-slow-moving thriller.

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01/28/05
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post

Fortunately, Turturro's subtle turn keeps our emotional connection solid even when the story skates on thin ice.

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01/28/05
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

The story, in the end, is less than satisfying and, unfortunately, doesn't match the movie's eerie style.

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01/28/05
John McMurtrie
John McMurtrie
San Francisco Chronicle
 
 
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