Fear

Deadliest of all, “Fear” is just not scary. The jump scares don’t land, the fears themselves are all a bit silly and it feels like Taylor is holding back for the majority of the run time.

A wonderfully nasty film that revels in its lack of originality...

It is frustrating to watch Fear carelessly oscillate between creature feature, haunted house movie, and folk horror.

With a COVID-19 pandemic theme, the horror flick Fear is an idiotic time waster with a muddled story, tacky visual effects, and weak ideas that are ripoffs of better-made horror films. Avoid this boring junk.

Despite a diverse cast and a nifty location, this soggy, inert horror movie unfolds with a most unimaginative collection of worn-out genre staples, starting with its bland title.

It’s horror comfort food that doesn’t address what it teases at the start, but still competently provides the basics.

Very much a pandemic movie - made at the height of it when paranoia, fear, and confusion was running deep - and art imitates life here for sure. Over the top and a lot to take in for sure.

Fear provokes uninspired results from its flat execution of a promising-enough horror concept.

Deon Taylor doesn’t exactly have a good track record (The Intruder, Meet the Blacks), so over the years, watching his latest work has become a cinematic fear of mine. It has not changed with Fear

This is a movie I hope gets remade. There is something here in the concept -- the horror element in here it fell flat for me, [but] the psychological thriller elements I actually did like -- again, in concept.