Reviews: A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012) Movie Review
Subgenres: Comedy, Psychological, Thriller, Campy, Cursed, Madness, Phobia
This in-depth review of A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012) explores its story, characters, and scares in detail, offering insights for every horror fan.
A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012) is a comedy horror movie that was anything but fantastic. It did a great job capturing my attention with its intriguing weirdness and bold approach. I was bored throughout the movie, but curiosity got the best. I watched the film to see what it was about. I am unsure what to say about director and writer Crispian Mills because this was his first movie. I gave this movie a four because the disease in this movie is accurate, and I am happy Crispian made a movie about it. It was unique, creepy, engaging, funny, and contained bad language. There was one frightening scene where a man had an eyeball in his mouth. The funny moment for me was at the laundry when he accidentally threw his underwear across the room, and a pretty female returned it to him, claiming it was not his. Will Jack confront his worst demons?
Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol) did an excellent performance as Jack. Jack is a man that is terrified of being murdered. He was a children’s author and became a crime author afterward. He was very dedicated to his first book, Harold the Hedgehog, which destroyed his marriage. His research about Victorian serial killers made him highly paranoid about people watching him all the time and trying to kill him.
Jack learns that serial killer Hanoi Handshake Killer is in his neighborhood and is cutting off eight fingers from his victims. He is so paranoid that he gives carolers money in a sock, jumps at the ring of the phone, shuts his window with superglue, dries his clothes in the oven, superglued a knife to his hand, and opens a smoking oven that blows him across the room and is terrified of going to the laundry. Jack’s paranoias are due to his being abandoned by his mother as a child, and he is afraid of hedgehogs because something awful happened to him. Jack soon learns why he is scared of the laundromat and hedgehogs after encountering an incident involving police at the laundromat. He was forced to go to the laundry after he attempted to wash the clothes in the oven failed. Jack remembered that his mother abandoned him in a laundromat and left him with a book about hedgehogs to read.
I would not recommend this movie because it was boring to watch but, at the same time, kept me engaged because I wanted to know what would happen and what it was really about.
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- A Fantastic Fear of Everything Rating Scores
- Our Score: 4/10
- Overall Score: 4.07/10
- IMDB: 5.8/10
- MetaCritic: 3.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 3.4/10
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