In Fear is a slickly made, impressively pared-down horror/thriller but is too abstract for its own good - it is hard to feel any great emotional identification (or fear) for characters who so sketchily written.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 5, 2015

With limited resources [Jeremy Lovering] has created a disturbingly tense and chilling scenario we can all identify with.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 5, 2015

Despite falling into a couple inevitable conventions of the genre... In Fear's deranged ambiguity and quiet madness make for a terrifying viewing experience.

| Original Score: B | Mar 12, 2014

"In Fear" takes a small task and a hooky premise and runs with them, providing some good jolts over the course of its barely-90-minute length.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 7, 2014

Rarely have so few commonplace ingredients produced so many uncommon chills.

| Mar 6, 2014

A wicked little horror film in which nearly all of the violence takes place in your head, "In Fear" expertly builds terror out of not much more than two people driving around in a car.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 6, 2014

Lovering keeps "In Fear" visually absorbing through unsettling close-ups and a well-paced series of scares.

| Mar 6, 2014

Imagine Funny Games (either version) without the meta-movie aspect. Even those annoyed by Michael Haneke's hectoring in those pictures must admit that there wouldn't be much left but random, pointless sadism without it.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 6, 2014

Logic is a torch we can use to fight our fears. If it flickers only dimly here, perhaps that's by design.

| Mar 4, 2014

As an exercise in stomach-knotting, In Fear is mildly successful [...] All the pieces are in place for a gripping indie horror flick, but [the] film just goes around in circles.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 4, 2014

In Fear lets its increasingly rattled characters stew for as long as possible before gradually revealing its hand, improvisation adding to the credibility of the couple's unravelling behaviour.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2013

It's one of the year's best horror movies, full stop.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2013

A smart, disturbing exercise in anxiety.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 14, 2013

Runs in circles of queasy inspiration for a good hour. Then follows the not-so-good half hour.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 14, 2013

Spiky, semi-improvised Brit horror singles out director Jeremy Lovering as one to keep a beady eye on.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 14, 2013

Both young actors seem even more promising after the movie than they did before it. Neither was given the full script or knew the story's outcome.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 14, 2013

Grips like a 4x4, even as the escalating tension threatens to spin out of control.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2013

It may be contrived and nothing new plot-wise, but In Fear has atmosphere and enough proper scares to deliver on the promise of its title.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 11, 2013

Crisp camerawork and amplified sound yield paranoia aplenty in this sharp-looking Sundance midnight movie, making it hard to imagine another director getting anywhere near this much mileage out of three actors and a car.

| Oct 25, 2013

A compact, effective thriller set in way-rural Ireland, Jeremy Lovering's In Fear makes the most of three actors, a car and a network of narrow roads winding through the woods.

| Oct 25, 2013