A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2014)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Please don't spend money on this.

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

With a friend coming back from Australia,I decided to look round for a movie that she would enjoy.Due to her being a Simon Pegg fan,I was happy to find that one of his lesser-known movies had turned up at a local DVD shop,which led to me getting ready to discover how fantastic this fear could be.The plot:Unable to sell his children's book, author Jack decides to move on to writing a book on Victorian serial killers (not much of a change there!) Delving into research,Jack starts to become obsessed by the history of the killers,and starts to become paranoid.Locking himself in his flat,Jack gets a call from his publisher,telling him that he must come out,due to their being a big shot producer who wants to adapt Jack's book. Failing to clean up,Jack accidentally super-glues a knife to his hand.Putting a big coat on to hide the knife,Jack steps out into the outside world,where he soon runs into a modern wannabe serial killer.View on the film:Changing chords from Brit Pop band Kula Shaker to the big screen, Crispian "son of Hayley" Mills and fellow co-director Chris Hopewell turn the pages in Jack's book with an ultra-stylised chic.Backed by pounding Hip-Hop songs and a creepy score from Michael Price,the directors and cinematographer Simon Chaudoir lock Jack in his flat with a vice-like grip,as lightning fast whip-pans and scatter shot zoom- ins uncover the terror that Jack fears has joined him in his flat.Opening with a matte painting, Mills & Hopewell show a bravely in taking the chilling mood into unexpectedly quirky routes,by bringing Jack's stories to life in hand-drawn and raw stop-motion animation.Whilst the ending disappointingly leaves Jack's debut novel to end on a whimper,the screenplay by Crispian Mills thankfully spends the rest of the title pulling the blood red Comedy Horror nerves from Jack's paranoia.Opening up Jack's troubled life,Mills unveil all of the anxiety fuelling Jack's horror fears,which leads to bitter slap- stick laughs,as Jack faces his fears on the outside. Twitching across the screen,Simon Pegg gives a great performance as Jack,thanks to Pegg pushing Jack's eyes to bursting and shivering with terror over the smallest thing,as Jack faces his fantastic fear of everything.

Simon Pegg is a cooky fellow. It's not surprising that he's taken on the role in A Fantastic Fear of Everything. Jack is his weirdest character to date. Pegg owns his character, moulding the story around his subversive behaviour. He's in too deep with his work, researching notorious serial killers for his book freaks him out to no end. A film-maker shows interest in his work, and a meeting's arranged. Jack must face the outside world in preparation for his big moment. Pegg and the team behind the scenes manage to turn a boring narrative into an intriguing one. Pegg spends the second third of AFFoE in a launderette, suspicious of fellow launderette-ers and in need of a beginners guide to washing clothes. This won't be for everyone. The comedy's dry. The story's far-fetched and at times, drags. Pegg maybe exceptional enough to see you through to the bitter end, or lager end.

Simon Pegg must be an awfully emotional fellow. Between his work in A Fantastic Fear of Everything and Hector and the Search for Happiness, it's practically a surprise this year's Disney/Pixar juggernaut Inside Out wasn't released starring Pegg as all five dominant emotions (I'd watch that movie). His foray into fear, however, is offbeat and unsettling enough to make most Disney-calibre audiences baulk. In fact, it's not entirely clear which audience A Fantastic Fear of Everything is geared towards, offering an oddball blend of Gothic horror, black comedy, surrealist, Roald Dahl-esq animated interludes, and the occasional broad slapstick just to remain extra unpredictable. If my bleary, incredulous eyes didn't deceive me, at one point the film hits the pause button and simply becomes a music video featuring Simon Pegg gangsta rapping.If that sounds a bit muddled, it's because it is. The premise, which has Pegg's children's author researching Gothic murder stories for a television series, becoming increasingly agoraphobic and paranoid in the process, starts off great. Pegg is infinitely charismatic and quirky, and able to wrench enough comedic mileage out of fearfully interacting with basic household items or cringing at every creak in the hallway (ably punctuated by Michael Price's booming Gothic score, which, bizarrely, lifts its main theme from the 1998 Roland Emmerich Godzilla of all things…) to make for a thoroughly enjoyable first act. The vibe is one of an early Charlie Chaplin short: essentially a one-man show, with every possible prop or scenario lending itself to slapstick silliness, and Pegg plays it to the hilt. So far, so good.Unfortunately, this private horror-show is only sustainable for so long before Pegg's expository voice-over begins to grate on the nerves somewhat, the premise feeling increasingly strained. Once Pegg tentatively ventures out of his house, debut writer/director Crispian Mills flounders somewhat, tangibly unsure as to how best to proceed. The second act skews somewhere between Freudian psychodrama (cue Paul Freeman of Raiders of the Lost Ark fame, having tremendous fun as Pegg's garrulous German therapist) and undercooked murder mystery, mostly staged, bizarrely enough, in a laundromat. And while Mills conjures up enough Gothic atmosphere and twists and turns to prevent the film from ever becoming boring, it's seldom that engaging either, and some of Mills' unorthodox creative choices are downright questionable (a recurring joke involving Pegg doing a cringeworthy impression of his Vietnamese neighbours comes uneasily to mind). By the time things definitively careen off the rails in an unhinged climax followed by a saccharine denouement that can't help but ring false (possibly intentionally), puzzling has become the adjective du-jour, and viewers are more than likely to begin mirroring Pegg's contorted expressions of terrified incredulity and disbelief.If nothing else, Mills can't be faulted for lacking in ambition in his debut feature film, and Pegg's hugely enjoyable presence guarantees the film never descends into a total disaster. Nonetheless, A Fantastic Fear of Everything is a confounding beast – too silly to play well to Poe junkies, and too dark and surreal to satisfy most comedic tastes. Ultimately, the film is best consumed in the vein of one of Pegg's horror vignettes: with the lights on, one eyebrow perpetually raised, and a stiff drink handy to guarantee safe passage back to the 'real world'.-6/10

I am a very big fan of Simon Pegg, (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Worlds End and Paul). A Fantastic Fear of Everything is not Pegg's best work, but still a rather enjoyable film that I found hilarious (The best was probably PC Taser playing 'Final Countdown' near the end).A Fantastic Fear of Everything is one of those films that you just need to sit back, watch, and just enjoy the film for what it is. I have only watched it once, and, truth be told, it will probably stay that way.There isn't really much else to say about this film. It is basically a Comedy/Thriller about a guy scared to go outside because he thinks he is going to be murdered. Just watch it.