Release Date:
15 November 2013 (UK)Filming Locations:
Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England, UK in 2011
Production company: big talk productions
Big talk production company estabilished in 1995 by Nira Park is located in london.
Big talk production company estabilished in 1995 by Nira Park is located in london.
other films produced by the company include; Attack the block,Paul,Hot fuzz,Shaun of the dead
Key people: Kenton allen (joint CEO, main company)
Matthew Justice (Managing director, main company)
Simon Curtis (executive producer of drama, main company)
Storyline: Driving, lost and tormented in the night, primal fears of the dark and the unknown give way to fear that you have let the evil in, or that it is already there.
Director:Jeremy Lovering
producers: Nira park, james biddle
Executive producers;matthew justice, danny perkins, jenny borgars and katherine butler
Cast: Iain De Caestecker,Alice Englert, Allen leech
Distributors; Ascot Elite Entertainment Group (2012) (Switzerland)
Bir Film (2013) (Turkey)
StudioCanal (2012) (World-wide)
Interview with the director and cast.
Exclusive posters:
Review:
The horrific potential of the countryside isn’t exactly underexplored in British horror. However, this debut feature from TV veteran Jeremy Lovering (Sherlock) has a familiar premise, but uses it to create a good deal of tension and, indeed, fear.
Two weeks after their first date, Lucy (Beautiful Creatures‘ Alice Englert) and Tom (The Fades‘ Iain de Caestecker) head to Ireland for a music festival. Tom’s booked a room in an isolated hotel for the night, but following the signs takes them round in a circle. As night closes in, the two realise that they’re being watched.
There’s a lot to be said for telling a familiar story well.
Thanks to Lovering’s direction and Englert and De Caestecker’s performances, things get very tense very quickly, and that mood is sustained for the bulk of the running time. The cinematography is excellent, showing the beautiful expanse of the countryside before contracting for increasingly tight close-ups of Lucy and Tom as the roads become narrower and night falls.
The atmosphere is helped by a wonderfully moody soundtrack and some effective early jump scares. As the film progresses, Lovering relies less and less on sudden loud noises and allows the horrific element to simply drift into frame. The tension comes from whether Tom and Lucy will see it in time.
Lovering didn’t give the actors a script in order to make their reactions to the film’s events more real, but what’s more interesting is their interaction with each other.
Tom and Lucy’s limited time together creates a great deal of tension as they try to grasp who or what is responsible for their situation and discover where their priorities lie. Both admit to avoiding a potentially dangerous situation in the pub where the film begins, but which of them is hiding more than they’re letting on? Perhaps more importantly, how committed are you to ensuring the safety of someone you’ve only recently fallen for when your own life might be at stake?
De Caestcker and Englert are both excellent. Tom is likeably mouthy but clearly nervous about being assertive, while Lucy’s quiet reserve quickly becomes very rational fear.
The almost unbearably tense first half is somewhat deflated by the arrival of a third character that immediately brings up comparisons with a 1986 cult classic.
This appearance and subsequent explanation are disappointing in their inevitability but, thankfully, not in their execution. It becomes clear where the film is going at this point, and it’s not a little contrived, but the performances and the cinematography aren’t diminished and it’s how Lucy and Tom react to their circumstances that’s important, rather than the circumstances themselves.
In Fear’s conclusion might not match its opening but it’s consistently gripping and highly atmospheric. It’s superbly shot, there are two excellent lead peformances and it has a bleak sensibility that ensures it will stay with you. This might not be breaking any new ground but it is a very good horror character study.
Pre Production/Production:
Shooting took place in Cornwall in the Autumn of 2011
Alice Englert, did not know it was about to happen; her reaction was genuine. ‘When the director said “cut” I started sobbing and sobbing and sobbing,’ Englert says. ‘It got a little bit too real. I was so distraught.’Englert and de Caestecker met only two weeks before filming, and the rehearsal period was a series of improvised scenes suggested by Lovering so they could find out more about each other’s characters. ‘I encouraged them not to speak to each other outside rehearsals,’ Lovering says, ‘because I didn’t want them to get too familiar with each other.’ Throughout the two months of filming in November and December 2011 Englert and de Caestecker were not given a script. ‘Our first conversation was scripted and for the first week we knew roughly what was happening. Then suddenly we didn’t know any more,’ Englert says. ‘They sent us out in a car and just told us to follow the signs.’ The tension in the car was heightened, cleverly, by the fact that Englert and de Caestecker didn’t know how the other one would react; they began to suspect and blame each other too. ‘We knew every day we went to work that something horrible was going to happen to us,’ Englert says. ‘It was so exciting, as well as scary. I just didn’t know how far they were going to
Unusually for a feature film In Fear was filmed chronologically (‘that was a real treat,’ Englert says). It was filmed in the forests around Bodmin Moor in Cornwall and the cast and crew lived in a hotel nearby.
Promotional Methods/Distrubtion:
interviews with the cast;
The cast include : Alice Englert,Allen Leech and iain de caestecker.
The cast unlike the hunger games are not famous acters and have had only little roles in Tv series such as Downton Abbey and coronation street. This would mean that the film wouldn't have such a large fan base as they aren't as famous as other acters in movies.
A large part of their promotional method is using interviews to get their movie known by the public before it comes out.
In Fear director Jeremy Lovering nominated at the BIFAs, director up for the Douglas Hickox Award for debut british feature.
The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2013 in the Park City at Midnight section. In Fear also screened as part of Frightfest 2013 and UK premiere on the 15th of November, 2013.
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