• Network: The CW
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 7, 2009
  • Season #: 1
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Metascore

Generally unfavorable - based on 9 Critics What's this?

  • Summary: Contestants try to conquer their fears in the bid to win $66,666 in this Sam Raimi-produced show.
  • Genre(s): Reality
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 9
  2. Negative: 6 out of 9
  1. 50
    As games go, this isn't a bad one. But unlike horror movies, the Fear doesn't feel real, and the show is nothing special.
  2. Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    30
    Even nightvision lenses and up-the-nose video, however, can't create a real sense of jeopardy until the final challenge, when two finalists are "buried alive." At least that's semi-interesting, though until then 13 is pretty much a snooze--more scatter-brained than scary.
  3. 13 Fear Is Real, a fizzled effort at scaremongering, reveals just how badly reality television can go astray when the casting fails to be creative.

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