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.

Not everyone will want to watch another Pandemic horror movie anytime soon, particularly one that tries to contextualize this period and its zeitgeist using dreadful imagery and barely disguised metaphors.

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