The Fear: Resurrection (1999)

User Rating:

2.2/10   

Director:

Chris Angel

Writer:

Kevin Richards (writer)

Release Date:

5 October 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

It's death-by-fear (aka scared-to-death) in this deceptively psychological thriller. The hero, Mike...

Plot Keywords:

Fear | Halloween | Costume | Person On Fire | Tombstone

Cast

Gordon Currie	...	Mike Hawthorne
Stacy Grant	...	Peg
Phillip Rhys	...	Mitch Maldive
Myc Agnew	...	Chris
Emmanuelle Vaugier	...	Jennifer
Kelly Benson	...	Lisa Ann
Brendan Beiser	...	Ned
Rachel Hayward	...	Trish
Larry Pennell	...	Grandfather
Betsy Palmer	...	Mams
John Paul Fedele	...	Morty (as Jon Fedele)
Garvin Cross	...	Stephen
Byron Chief-Moon	...	Crow (as Byron Chief Moon)
Ingrid Tesch	...	Louise
Riley Newort	...	Young Mike (as Riley Newport)

Also Known As:

The Fear 2 (USA) (working title)
The Fear II: Happy Halloween (USA) (working title)
The Fear: Halloween Night (USA) (video title)

MPAA:

Rated R for horror violence, language and a scene of sexuality.

Runtime:

87 min | Argentina:97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Singapore:PG (cut) | Australia:MA | Germany:18 | UK:18 | USA:R | Argentina:16

Filming Locations:

Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Ubiquitous Productions Inc.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Mike breaks the mirror, it cracks into small fragments. Later, when he looks into it, the broken pieces are much larger.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Wisher (2002)

And I thought the first film was terrible...

Five-year-old Michael sees his mother getting axed to death by his serial killer father "The Highwayman," who later commits suicide. "20 years later" grown Mike (Gordon Currie, from PUPPET MASTER 4 and 5) invites seven of his friends to his secluded grandparents home to "master their own fears" at a Halloween night costume party. Morty, a life-size wooden doll kept in the attic by the Indian handyman, becomes possessed by the dead father's spirit and kills them off using their phobias. Characters are thrown out a window, drowned in a toilet, eaten by rats, blown up, etc. Morty morphs into the dad and a tree, walks around and makes stupid wisecracks. After finding a girl chopped up and stuffed in a cardboard box, the characters remain in the house, act cheerful, crack jokes and have sex.

The Morty design is good and Betsy Palmer (Mrs. Voorhees from the original Friday THE 13TH) is surprisingly delightful as the grandmother, but this thing is even more senseless and confusing than the original and is full of false scares, bad acting, brain-dead characters, repeat flashback footage and annoying distorted camera-work. Plus the only two minority characters (the Indian and a half-black girl) are the first to die. BLAH!