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  • The CW
  • Jan 7, 2009
  • The CW
  • Jan 7, 2009
13 Fear Is Real

Summary Imagine the Blair Witch Project as a reality series, and you have grasped the concept for this CW reality series from Sam Raimi. Thirteen contestants are stranded in the Louisiana bayou, and each week one contestant mysteriously 'disappears' as they are eliminated from the competition. The last one standing will win a prize of $66,666.

  • The CW
  • Jan 7, 2009
  • The CW
  • Jan 7, 2009
13 Fear Is Real
Season 1
Season Premiere: Jan 7, 2009
Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary Imagine the Blair Witch Project as a reality series, and you have grasped the concept for this CW reality series from Sam Raimi. Thirteen contestants are stranded in the Louisiana bayou, and each week one contestant mysteriously 'disappears' as they are eliminated from the competition. The last one standing will win a prize of $66,666.

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67% Negative
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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.
By Robert Bianco FULL REVIEW
42
Watching them tied up for a find-your-partner challenge is more absurd than scary.
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30
13: Fear Is Real is cruel in its premise, drably inevitable in its concept and supremely dull in execution. No one risks being scared to death, but being bored to death seems a credible threat.
By Tom Shales FULL REVIEW
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.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
30
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.
By Ginia Bellafante FULL REVIEW
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Fear Is Real is the dripping-with-irony title of a CW-staged unscripted venture that scarcely could be more fake, a collection of preposterous snapshots of 13 young people trying their best to scream rather than laugh.
By Ray Richmond FULL REVIEW
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Watching 13 - Fear Is Real, I was, like, shaking, too, from giggling at the awesome flimsiness of this new horror reality show--when I wasn't bored out of my skull, that is.
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW

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