Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Mark Wahlberg | ... | David McCall | |
Reese Witherspoon | ... | Nicole Walker | |
William Petersen | ... | Steve Walker | |
Amy Brenneman | ... | Laura Walker | |
Alyssa Milano | ... | Margo Masse | |
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Christopher Gray | ... | Toby |
Tracy Fraim | ... | Logan | |
Gary Riley | ... | Hacker | |
Jason Kristofer | ... | Terry | |
Jed Rees | ... | Knobby | |
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Todd Caldecott | ... | Gary Rohmer |
Gerry Bean | ... | Eddie Clark (as John Oliver) | |
David Fredericks | ... | Larry O'Brien | |
Rav Toor | ... | Counterman (as Ravinder Toor) | |
Andrew Airlie | ... | Alex McDowell |
Nicole walker is the average 16 year old girl; wants to have fun, and dreams of her Prince Charming. When her and her best friend Margot appear at a party, she meets older bad boy David. Everything seems to be going so well and Nicole and David become a couple. Nicole's family like David and she decides she loves him enough to give herself to him one night after a date. However, as soon as they became official, David has become a possessive and jealous boyfriend. He even beats up one of Nicole's close male friends when he is seen giving her a hug at the end of school. After this dark event Nicole never wants to see David again but he tries his hardest to make sure Nicole will take him back. Soon enough she forgives him and things seem to be going well again until a sick situation involving Nicole's best friend Margot turns to her and David breaking up again. This time David is not taking any chances with not being with Nicole so him and his friends go into her family home and attempt ...
Movie like this either reach out and pull you in or they don't. Fear pulled me in. I rented this movie about a week after Halloween of 1996 and put it in my VCR not sure what to expect. 2 hours later I ejected the movie from the VCR feeling somewhat dazed and overwhelmed. Fear isn't a classic. But it works well. It is scary, violent gory and well made. The reason it works so well is because it was made by people who knew what they were doing. The whole stalker style of movies is full of uninspired trash that sounds like it was made for the USA network.
Fear stands heads and shoulders above that (And to some extent above the original Fatal Attraction). It's not afraid to push, to pull us inside, to scare us and give us a good conclusion at the end, one that movies of this type always mess up.
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