Fever (1999)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Alex Winter

Writer (WGA):

Alex Winter (written by)

Release Date:

30 November 2000 (Malaysia)

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

Who Can You Trust... When You No Longer Trust Yourself...

Plot:

A struggling artist (Parker) is implicated in a string of macabre murders.

Plot Keywords:

Artist | Macabre | Murder | Hallucination | Fever

Cast

Henry Thomas	...	Nick Parker
David O'Hara	...	Will
Teri Hatcher	...	Charlotte Parker
Bill Duke	...	Detective Glass
Sándor Técsy	...	Sidney Miskowitz
Irma St. Paule	...	Mrs. Miskowitz
Alex Kilgore	...	Adam Dennis
Marisol Padilla Sánchez	...	Soledad
Patricia Dunnock	...	Sophie Parker
Helen Hanft	...	Louisa
Remak Ramsay	...	Richard Parker
Lisby Larson	...	Eleanor Parker
Jon Tracy	...	Leonard Wooley
Charles E. Gerber	...	Bob
Ken Comer	...	Detective Comer

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language, and brief nudity.

Runtime:

Argentina:110 min | France:95 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English | Polish

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

UK:15 | Iceland:16 | Malaysia:18SG (uncut version) | Malaysia:U (cut version) | Australia:M | Argentina:13 | Portugal:M/12 (video premiere) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Fever Productions Inc.

Trivia:

Director Cameo: ['Alex Winter']one of the train's departing passengers when Nick is getting on the subway.

Quotes:

Nick: [complaining to tenant who just moved in upstairs] I'm an artist, and at night, I work in my room.
Will: What's that got to do with me?
Nick: It's not you, it's the noise. You'll hear for yourself these walls are paper thin. Well, the landlord, he told me that he only used the top floor for storage.
Will: So what? You want me to move at 2:00 in the morning?

Dark, claustrophobic, and downright creepy

This film proves that you don't need a huge budget and a slew of special effects to scare the audience. The film is dark and creepy, very claustrophobic.

Nick is an undiscovered artist living in a rundown building in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He's losing his part time job, and is already so broke that he doesn't have a phone. His life is spiraling downward.

Somebody is murdering people in Nick's building. He hears strange noises through the walls. There's a mysterious man in the supposedly empty apartment upstairs, but nobody else seems to know he's there. Nick is not feeling well. He's feverish. He might be imagining all this. Perhaps he's not. Strange things keep happening -- sometimes just little things -- that make everything feel tilted and out of control. The film feels sort of like "Eraserhead" meets the "Sixth Sense". When I came out of the theater I took a big gulp of fresh air and looked all around me to reassure myself that real life was nothing like this movie.