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  • 2014
  • R
  • Indomina Releasing
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2014
  • R
  • Indomina Releasing
  • 1 h 40 m

Summary Jack is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable in...

Directed By: Crispian Mills, Chris Hopewell

Written By: Crispian Mills

  • 2014
  • R
  • Indomina Releasing
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2014
  • R
  • Indomina Releasing
  • 1 h 40 m

A Fantastic Fear of Everything

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
31
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 13 User Ratings
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Summary Jack is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable in...

Directed By: Crispian Mills, Chris Hopewell

Written By: Crispian Mills

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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7% Positive
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50% Mixed
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43% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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50% Mixed
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75
Feb 7, 2014
At the very least, Fantastic Fear of Everything has a fantastic central performance. And sometimes that's enough.
By Drew Taylor FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 13, 2013
It's always trying to do something unusual. It has a great lead in Pegg. What it doesn't have is an ending or a clear reason what it wants to be.
By Olly Richards FULL REVIEW

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50
Feb 6, 2014
Fantastic Fear leaps all over the place narratively and conceptually, servicing the comedy of every individual scene without considering or linking the others. Some of those individual scenes are marvelous, though.
By Tasha Robinson FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 6, 2014
There’s also little point and a garish quality that goes from pulp to junk fairly quickly, despite Pegg’s presence.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
20
Feb 8, 2014
The dreary, loud, amateurish horror-comedy A Fantastic Fear of Everything...isn’t terribly interested in logic. Or continuity. Or filmmaking acumen. Or, most glaringly, laughs.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
20
Dec 13, 2013
There’s not a single, solitary laugh to be had.
By Trevor Johnston FULL REVIEW
20
Dec 13, 2013
Crispian Mills's London-based horror-comedy is so spectacularly bungled that it leaves the viewer in a state of advanced petrification.
By Xan Brooks FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Indomina Productions, Keel Films, Pinewood Studios
Release Date Feb 7, 2014
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating R
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Tagline Jack's a writer with a dark secret. But now his demons are taking over, unless one man finds the courage to fight back.
Website https://www.facebook.com/AFantasticFearOfEverythingUk
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Awards

Irina Palm d'Or
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Golden Trailer Awards
• 2 Nominations
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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