2012 · comedy · thriller · horror
A Fantastic Fear of Everything
Directed by Crispian Mills1h 40m2012
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 interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront his worst demons; among them his love life, his laundry and the origin of all fear.
Our read: A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · thriller · horror entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- brisk
- inventive
- intimate
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