In Fear

"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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

If you've ever been lost at night on a road you've never seen before, you'll probably get a kick out of In Fear.

In Fear was made for next to nothing but that is not always a virtue. After an adequate start its storyline goes precisely nowhere.

A lost-in-the-woods horror predominantly set within a car's claustrophobic confines, this is certainly one of the better films of late to play with fear of the dark.

Sometimes the most effective horror films come with the simplest premise and this is certainly the case with Jeremy Lovering's In Fear.

In Fear finally feels disappointingly conventional, losing faith in its primitive method.

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.