Synopsis
When his wife is killed in a seemingly random incident, Harry, prompted by mysterious visions, journeys to discover the true circumstances surrounding her murder.
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Cast
- John TurturroHarry
- Deborah Kara UngerKate
- Stephen Eric McIntyrePhil
- William Allen YoungAgent Lawrence
- Gene DavisEd
- Mark HoughtonDiner Cop
- Jacqueline RamelClaire
- James RemarPeter
- Nadia LitzEllen
- Amanda OomsProstitute
Recommendations
- 100
Christian Science Monitor
This thriller is ingeniously woven with motifs suggesting the difficulty of seeing and understanding truth, and substitutes psychological chills for commonplace gore. - 80
Variety
A supremely elegant, meditative thriller. - 70
L.A. Weekly
Turturro keeps Fear X fascinating, practically in spite of itself. - 70
The New York Times
Grimly austere barely begins to describe the atmosphere of dread that seeps through Fear X like a toxic mist. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Barely credible, but in the hands of the film's dedicated minimalists, "barely" is enough, and they turn the precious little they have to work with into a plus. - 63
New York Daily News
The movie is so glacially paced and underdeveloped that it often feels as numb as its grieving hero. - 60
Village Voice
Perhaps a radical re-editing of Fear X-like Lynch did on “Mulholland Drive”-could rescue the film's workaday unease from the dread taboo of derivative weirdness. It's half a movie, but a half that hums. - 50
Film Threat
A tedious, snail-paced mess.
