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.

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Credits

Director: Jeremy Lovering
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.

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