This is How Movies Should Be Made

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

As a horror movie fanatic I have seen most out there, and usually I find myself sorely disappointed. Almost immediately I felt a creepy vibe with this movie, and it remained creepy and suspenseful throughout. This was the main plus. So many horror movies these days claim to be "horror" while in reality they are comedies with a "horror"-ish theme. This was not. However, despite the building suspense of the movie, no real climactic ending ensued. There were many things left unexplained, and I felt it could have gone much farther into the darkness than it did. This is why I did not give it more stars even though I did thoroughly enjoy it. It could have been better, true, but I think it was on the right track for horror, a thing I sorely miss these days.

My quick rating - 4,8/10. I am not sure what people on IMDb are raving about. It may have been simple and to the point, or if you want to read well into this much more then exists, then sure, it could be phenomenal. Truth is I watched a marginal horror movie that was entirely too boring for half of it. The acting was not very good to hold so much of the film being just the two people in the car. I would give my opinions of what actually could've happened but there is no way to do so without giving spoilers. Let me just say, I really don't think this movie is much more then face value but only the creators could say for sure. Maybe someone will comment on IMDb to me and tell me if my "theory" about this is correct. If not, this is just a drive around lost with some bad guy harassing you every step of the way. Might be worth viewing if you want to get in the conversation of "What ifs"

Jeremy Lovering's directorial debut, In Fear, is a British horror/thriller set in the countryside of Northern Ireland. A young couple, Tom and Lucy, have only been together for two weeks. They are on their way to join some friends at a music festival when Tom announces he has booked a hotel for the night as a surprise. Things start to go wrong on their way to the hotel as they get lost, and strange things start to happen.Lucy, played by Alice Englert (better known to me from Beautiful Creatures, and also starred in Ginger & Rosa) was excellent in this movie. I found her presence to be entertaining, in that she managed to execute each scene perfectly. In an interview with The Telegraph, Englert admitted that filming the scenes for In Fear left her feeling a little distraught. She was quoted as saying "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." check out the full article hereTom, played by Iain De Caestecker (Known for Coronation Street and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D) also put on a convincing performance as the male protagonist. He didn't stand out as much as Englert, I felt she really stole the movie to be fair.Allen Leech (since appearing in In Fear, he has been in The Imitation Game and Downton Abbey) played Max, the movie's antagonist. Leech only came into the movie about half way through it, but his character portrayal was amazing. He gave the impression that he really was a deranged psychopath. Hats off to Leech for this movie.The first half of the movie, is excellent. The low budget isn't an issue at all, as most of it is set on rural country roads. The ending had so much potential, but didn't cut the mustard for me. I felt like I was left without a definitive answer as to 'why'. Anyone that knows me and my movie tastes will know that I either need the ending to be hidden, so I have to go back and look for it or completely obvious to see. I have no time for movies that don't seem to come together with some sort of explanation. Apart from that fact, it was a relatively good movie.

This was bad. Even when I was watching it I had hope that it would get better. It didn't. The film consists of two characters driving around in circles trying to a find a hotel, but it seems someone/something is after them. That's it. Nothing more and nothing less. That sentence pretty much sums up the film. I will also add to that the film is extremely long, it's not interesting yet drags on.SPOILERS AHEAD: 1. Around 1 hour into the film we find out who is behind this... After this point onwards I don't see the point of the film. I see the point if the film makers had a background story to why this was happening - they didn't thus making it a waste of time. The film unnecessarily dragged on.2. The start of the film was extremely stupid and unrealistic. Since when do hotels send someone out for you to follow them so you can find the hotel. The hotel would give the person directions. What didn't make sense is the guy had a SatNav so surely he could have entered the postcode in? If the hotel was in the middle of no where and a SatNav couldn't reach it... Why would the guy book such a hotel? Surely alarm bells were ringing when they said they'd send a car for him to follow.3. The film consisted of them just driving round and round in circles. It was boring. It was worse because they'd only just met each other so there was no interesting conversation either.4. It was Max. So what? Who is Max? And why is he doing this? If the film didn't drag on for so much and it just ended... It may have even added suspense that we didn't know why Max was doing this.Overall. An extremely long film which had no storyline what so ever.