In Fear opened on 56 screens
Opening weekend box office (15th November) £41,335
In Fear Poster
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Budget discussion - UNCUT magazine
CLICK: Do you think, considering some of the budgets that films are getting, that improvisation is still an important tool when everything is so rigidly defined usually?
JL: I think what it allowed, practically what it allowed, was speed of production. It was a very quick…you know Studio Canal, then Film4, the producers, everyone bought into the idea that this was the way we were going to make it. It was exciting to them, and me, to do a genre film with what was essentially a dramatic method, it was a challenge. You know it’s not a common way of doing it. Everyone was interested and bought into that as an experiment, the budget level was quite low-risk to them, all those things allowed the method, allowed it to happen quickly, and allowed it to have freedom. If it had been more expensive, there would have been less freedom, obviously there always is. And there would have been a point where you go, “We need to see a script because we need to guarantee that this is going to work in a certain way.” So I think they took a risk that even if the improvisation was not that good, it would still kinda work. And they were only spending a certain amount to allow for that.
CLICK: From a studio point of view you say it’s low-risk because of the budget, but it’s your first time directing, so how was it coming into this project with this unorthodox approach?
JL: I did a TV movie years ago that was that kind of approach, so I’d done it before and I’d learned quite a few….Actually, it’s interesting because it didn’t really work; it kind of worked, but it didn’t really work. And the mistakes I made that time gave me the confidence not to make those again. And also, because you know, I’ve been directing a lot of TV, so I had the confidence in how to direct actors, how to construct scenes, how to structure sequences and how to get those shots. So I knew what I could do to cover my arse if it all went wrong. I think that’s the difference. I think if it’s the first thing I’d ever directed, I would have been really, really scared to do it that way.
CLICK: Do you think you’ve unearthed future stars in Alice and Iain, considering their performances in the film?
JL: Yeah, I think…I mean, you know, Iain is doing [Agents of] S.H.I.E.L.D. at the moment and he’s just done Ryan Gosling’s film. But he’s been doing stuff for years; it’s not because of my film. But I think my film probably marked him, you know every actor has those kind of transitions into a new chapter: age, experience, style of performance. And maybe that’s what he’s doing. Alice has been in a couple of films, but this is actually the first film she’d done because we shot it before Ginger & Rosa and before Beautiful Creatures. And I think it’s interesting, what they all found is that they were spoiled. You know, it gave them so much freedom. They were able to create the character, which is really exciting as an actor. That I think to go onto those very formal, structured films, discipline is very different. So I think they will go on to be stars. I think they’ve got it. I mean, they’re both charismatic, they’re both really good at acting, and they’re both very smart. Alice is only 18, she was 17 when we filmed, and she’s wise beyond her years. Iain is one of those actors who looks to the end of a story, he’s able to manage his performance. And they’re both very clever. Allen (Leech), I think is brilliant. I think he needs…he’s doing The Imitation Game with Benedict (Cumberbatch) and Keira Knightley and that will be really interesting because that’s a post-Downton shift. I think he’s a really good actor and I think he needs to perhaps find his kind of cinematic identity, which I think he’s doing. Once he’s done that, he’ll be off. You know, he’s so loved and he’s very classy.
- See more at: http://www.clickonline.com/movies/uncut-interview--jeremy-lovering-(director--in-fear)/20786/#sthash.9sS8nWbu.dpuf
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
14 NOV STUDENTS SEE IN FEAR FOR FREE
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E4 Slackers Club presents IN FEAR
How much would you trust a stranger? Would you go for a coffee with them? Or to the movies? Share a ride to a music festival? Stay the night in a hotel together...?
Lucy (Alice Engelhert, BEAUTIFUL CREATURES) and Tom (Iain de Caestecker, FILTH) have only known each other for two weeks when he offers her a ride to a music festival in the Irish countryside. But the satnav goes down, the phone signal cuts out, and the signposts seem to be taking them around in circles. As the sun sets, tensions run high - they seem to be pursued by a spooky stranger. Is Lucy hysterical? Is Tom orchestrating the whole thing?
IN FEAR evokes the panic of being in darkness, the claustrophobia of being stuck in a car with someone suspicious you barely know, and the creeping feeling that in the middle of the countryside, no one can hear you scream...
Tickets, as always, are completely FREE and exclusive to students across the land. For your free E4 Slackers Club membership, pop in to your local Picturehouse Cinema or call 0871 902 5747 - tickets are available now, get 'em while you can!
Lucy (Alice Engelhert, BEAUTIFUL CREATURES) and Tom (Iain de Caestecker, FILTH) have only known each other for two weeks when he offers her a ride to a music festival in the Irish countryside. But the satnav goes down, the phone signal cuts out, and the signposts seem to be taking them around in circles. As the sun sets, tensions run high - they seem to be pursued by a spooky stranger. Is Lucy hysterical? Is Tom orchestrating the whole thing?
IN FEAR evokes the panic of being in darkness, the claustrophobia of being stuck in a car with someone suspicious you barely know, and the creeping feeling that in the middle of the countryside, no one can hear you scream...
Tickets, as always, are completely FREE and exclusive to students across the land. For your free E4 Slackers Club membership, pop in to your local Picturehouse Cinema or call 0871 902 5747 - tickets are available now, get 'em while you can!
Thursday 14 November
LONDON
Greenwich Picturehouse, 6.30pm
The Ritzy, Brixton, 6.30pm - plus Q&A
Stratford Picturehouse, 6.40pm
Clapham Picturehouse, 11.00pm
The Gate, Notting Hill, 10.45pm
Hackney Picturehouse, 9.30pm
Greenwich Picturehouse, 6.30pm
The Ritzy, Brixton, 6.30pm - plus Q&A
Stratford Picturehouse, 6.40pm
Clapham Picturehouse, 11.00pm
The Gate, Notting Hill, 10.45pm
Hackney Picturehouse, 9.30pm
Frightfest - Interview
Alice Englert talks about the fact that there was no money to shoot this film - so they had nothing to lose on the shoot.
Alice Englert - actor
In Fear - Tweets
Tweets about In Fear leading up to the premiere. Look out for more when the film is out on general release...
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Sundance London
In Jeremy Lovering’s chilling debut, a young couple fights to survive one night-turned-nightmare. Driving to a music festival, Tom and Lucy have plans to stay at a countryside hotel. But with hotel signs leading them in circles and darkness falling, they soon become lost in a maze of country roads... and the target of an unknown tormentor.
Reminiscent of vintage psychological thrillers and bolstered by newcomers Iain De Caestecker and Alice Englert in its main roles, In Fear plays out in real time and hinges on a claustrophobic, unrelentingly tense visual style. Looking to shed pretense and genuinely scare his actors, Lovering withheld the script and often concealed what was about to happen to the characters. Add a dark forest, and the fear became real.
Though propelled by visceral thrills, the film transcends genre and offers a study in fear itself, creating a cerebral fable in which fear - of the dark, of the unknown, of ourselves - governs our nature, compels our choices, and may well seal Tom and Lucy’s fate.
Dates and times
In Fear was screened at Sundance London April 2013.
Credits
Director: Jeremy Lovering
Screenwriters: Jeremy Lovering
Cast: Alice Englert, Iain De Caestecker, Allen Leech
Screenwriters: Jeremy Lovering
Cast: Alice Englert, Iain De Caestecker, Allen Leech
About the Director
After unofficially attending film school and working as a film production runner, Jeremy Lovering graduated to directing award-winning short films, television series (including spy drama MI5 and an adaptation of Martin Amis’s Money with Nick Frost), television movies (Miss Austen Regrets with Tom Hiddlestone, Imogen Poots, and Olivia Williams), and documentaries such as The Ultimate Bullet, where he filmed the first American soldier to return to Iraq.
Filmmaker Q&As
Do you have questions for the filmmaker? At Sundance London you’ll have the chance to ask them.
Filmmaker Q&As after every screening.
Do you have questions for the filmmaker? At Sundance London you’ll have the chance to ask them.
Filmmaker Q&As after every screening.
TIMEOUT - preview
2 weeks before release - this is what Timeout have to say...
Preview
One of a small selection of British features playing at Sundance London in 2013, ‘In Fear’ marks the directorial debut of TV veteran Jeremy Lovering. Set on the back roads of Northern Ireland, the low-budget film stars Iain de Caestecker and Alice Englert as a pair of strangers travelling together to a music festival whose journey becomes a nightmare when they’re stalked by a group of masked locals. Taking place largely inside the car, the film aims for claustrophobic chills rather than horror-movie thrills, and the consensus from the Sundance Film Festival in 2013 was that Lovering’s film was largely successful.
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