Really Surprised!

Good concept, poorly executed.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

What this film is NOT: Funny, Entertaining, Well actedWhat this film is: Terrible, Predictable, Stupid.As another reviewer rightly said the lead 'actor' of this movie was incredibly annoying, it's possible it could have been better with another actor, in between being too enthusiastic and excited to being overly panicking and pathetically crying the scenes felt annoying, boring and painfully dragged out. But unfortunately I endured to see the movie out (instead of turning it off). I will some it up below for those interested and save and hour and a half or so of your lives.============== SPOILERS ==============So we have this complete loser, annoying douche, who is sponging off his girlfriends parents, hires this ridiculous team called 'fear, inc', despite his friends and girlfriend warning against it (because fear inc are crazy or something stupid), being the complete douche that he is, he hires them anyway. His friends who are staying the weekend freak out, they get separated (this even feels stupid to explain). Anyway there are stupidly predictable twists, and like 'The Game' the movie which they mention in the film, its all a gag that his friends and girlfriend are in on, but it's too late because douchebag accidentally kills one of the Fear inc team, they go to bury the body and Fear inc find him and kill his girlfriend...But again THAT was all part of the gag! Yay! How predictable. Then the ultimate predictability which I hoped they wouldn't go for because it made a less than average film go full retard, when the Fear inc people kill him and all his friends all of a sudden, for no reason, and we as viewers are supposed to believe that there could be a company that would just go around killing people so extravagantly and elaborately without getting caught or even suspected, despite people dying after hiring them and people knowing about them. This twist was stupid and unnecessary.I wish I had just re-watched 'The Game' (this film does the twists the right way) or maybe even just watched some paint dry.

I have seen so many of these low budget thrillers that when someone makes something even slightly original its like a breath of fresh air. I was not expecting much to be honest but I am pleasantly surprised by how decent it was. Its quite difficult to initially like the movie since the bloke who plays the lead is mind-numbing irritating but once you get past that you can actually enjoy the movie quite a bit. The girl who plays the lead is seriously beautiful. Her voice is something to die for as well.I think I am in love.I think a lot many more people would have enjoyed the movie if Bighead from Silicon Valley's doppelganger lead was replaced by someone else. For a while I was certain that I was witnessing the worst ever actor in the history of civilization but to be fair to him he does improve towards the end. Its actually quite a decent movie even with its many flaws. You should give it a try if you enjoy low budget slasher movies.

I'll be honest, I suspected about the plot twist in the movie since I read the synopsis, sounded a lot like a horror version of David Fincher's The Game (1997), and I was right but this one has a smaller budget.In Fear, Inc. we follow a group of young adults, the main character is one of the most annoying guys I've seen on a horror film, it's so easy to hate him. He contacts a company that creates scary moments and then who saw The Game know what's going on. I have mixed feelings about it! The acting is poor, the cast look a bit amateur, however I've seen worse on another movies. The horror sequences are okay and the plot is amazing for the viewers who haven't watched the David Fincher's movie, but predictable for who has seen it. I loved the metalanguage and the numerous references to another films, sounded a bit like Scream (1996).Fear, Inc. is watchable, can be fresh and a funny surprise for some people and just okay for another, unfortunately the writers ruined the ending.Rate: 5/10

The main crux of the movie is to keep the viewer in suspense as to whether or not events are truly happening or if this is part of the game. To that extent the movie works. There is just enough gore to class this as a horror and is centered around an avid fan of the genre, even having him wearing a Freddie Kruger inspired pullover, but I felt this is first and foremost a basic thriller with whatever humour/humor here being lost on me. Maybe it's hipster humour but didn't find it anywhere funny enough to be considered comedy.Acting was OK for the uncomplicated characters as was the cinematic experience passable for the small stage-sets. All in all I did not find it as awful as some/many other reviews here but as I said earlier i saw this more as a thriller than anything else, with the suspense coming from the thought as to is this part of an act or really happening. The worst to say was that the first 30-40 minutes could have been condensed to ten.