Fear (1990 film)
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Fear is a 1990 American thriller/horror/suspense film. It is directed by Rockne S. O'Bannon and stars Ally Sheedy, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Michael O'Keefe, Lauren Hutton, Keone Young, Stan Shaw, Dean Goodman, Don Hood and Jonathan Prince.
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Directed by | Rockne S. O'Bannon |
Written by | Rockne S. O'Bannon |
Produced by | Richard Kobritz Mitchell Cannold Diane Nabatoff Henry Kline |
Starring | Ally Sheedy Lauren Hutton Michael O'Keefe Keone Young Stan Shaw Jonathan Prince |
Cinematography | Robert M. Stevens (credited as Robert Stevens) |
Edited by | Kent Beyda Lorraine Salk |
Music by | Henry Mancini |
Distributed by | Vestron Pictures |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Plot
Cayce Bridges (Ally Sheedy) is a psychic gifted in a form of psychometry that allows her to mentally link with murderers enabling police to catch them. That is until she encounters the mysterious and elusive Shadow Man (Pruitt Taylor Vince), who is not only similarly blessed in Telepathy, but is more powerful than she is. At a dinner party hosted by Cayce’s friend Jessica cayce telepathically picks up on the shadow man and he begins to take control of her body making cayce stab the table with a knife. Cayce realized that the shadow man is a more powerful psychic than she is and so her boyfriend Jack teaches her to “block out” the shadow man. cayce uses this to find out where the shadow man is and the shadow man threatens cayce;later he then kills Jessica when cayce is on a flight at a carnival cayce eventually finds the shadow man in an attraction called “the chamber of fear” and she realizes that the reason why the shadow man followed her is because he read jacks thoughts and not hers after a brief struggle the shadow man falls out the window killing himself.
Cast
- Ally Sheedy as Cayce Bridges
- Michael O'Keefe as Jack Hays
- Lauren Hutton as Jessica Moreau
- Pruitt Taylor Vince as "Shadow Man"
- Keone Young as Detective William Wu
- Stan Shaw as Detective Webber
- Jonathan Prince as Colin Hart
- Dina Merrill as Catherine Tarr
- John Agar as Leonard Scott Levy
- Marta DuBois as Inez Villanueva
- Dean Goodman as William Tarr
- Don Hood as Holcomb
- Jane Sibbett as Newscaster
Release
Originally intended for a theatrical release, the film made its premiere on Showtime on July 15, 1990.
DVD
The film has been released on DVD by Lions Gate as a double feature with Parents.[1] Both films are presented in widescreen.
Critical reception
Writing in Radio Times, critic Alan Jones described the film as an "unusual thriller" with Sheedy displaying "an unexpected steely side," and that although there is "little in the way of mystery [...] there's plenty of unnerving action."[2] Critic Rick Kogan wrote in The Chicago Tribune that the film was "interestingly textured and graced by a bold performance" from Sheedy, and that it "will keep you interested, offers an interesting variation on its theme and rarely dips into predictability."[3] A review in the Sun Sentinel, reported that although the film is "billed as a psychological thriller, [it] is really a color-by-number, blood-and-guts crime story with a better-than-average gimmick."[4]
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