Nothing Left to Fear (2013)

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People are voting emotionally.

good back-story, and good acting

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Dan (James Tupper), his wife Wendy (Anne Heche), and their three kids; Rebecca (Rebekah Brandes), Mary (Jennifer Stone), and Christopher (Carter Cabassa) move to the rural town of Stull, Kansas. Dan is the new pastor joining Pastor Kingsman (Clancy Brown). Noah (Ethan Peck) is taken with Rebecca and then strange things happen.For the first half, there are some things happening. None of it is scary. They are not creepy. They are at best functional horror tropes. The biggest issue is that nothing happens for a long time. The little bits of something are really nothing. Brandes is a little old to play a teen. Nobody in the family is that compelling. The horror only starts after the midway point and it's too late by then. Despite having Clancy Brown, even the scary parts are nothing. This is really a nothing horror. There is a structural loop around the story which could have been interesting but there is nothing connected to the loop. It all starts with the lust at first sight. He's too creepy for that. The only possible good part is still a nothing.

A pastor moves him and his family to a small town to pastor over a church where the existing pastor is retiring. Right away we see the town has a hidden agenda for the family as things aren't always as they seem. Its one of those films where everybody looks guilty of something or they want to tell you something but can't.I thought it seemed like Blood On Satan's Claw meets The Grudge. I was getting right into this one and then boom they start ripping off one Japanese horror film after the other. They first rip off Grave Encounters stretched mouths then Pulse, Grudge, Ringu, Hair Extensions and a few others. It was cool when the thing touched someone they become instantly a mummified corpse which again is ripped from something I just can't think of right now.Mediocre flick at best. Anne Heche does decent job. The only thing left to fear is a sequel.

Another typical Hollywood horror B-movie. This one riffs on the likes of CHILDREN OF THE CORN and THE WICKER MAN in the tale of a small town hiding a dark secret. A new and boring family move into the community, where they're soon assailed by mysterious events and characters harbouring dark secrets.It's a long-winded and slow-paced story and one that doesn't offer up a whole lot of interest, it has to be said. NOTHING LEFT TO FEAR actually does better when focusing on the non-horror elements like characterisation and character interaction and falls down when it comes to the cheesy horror scenes, augmented with CGI ghostly faces as they are. It also relies too much on jump scares and clichéd, derivative moments for effect when really it should be offering something new.The cast aren't too bad, although they are given little enough to work with. Anne Heche is unrecognisable from her early Hollywood roles in the likes of SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS; she plays the suburban mother here. Rebekah Brandes isn't too bad either, although as with Alexandra Daddario in Texas CHAINSAW 3D, she's given little to do other than wander around in a skin-tight t-shirt. Clancy Brown is the best thing in it, but he doesn't have enough screen time.

What a waste of story potential and cast. Plot has James Tupper and Anne Heche as a religious family moving to Stull, Kansas, a place rumoured to contain one of the Gateways to Hell. Pretty soon it's evident that the locals are not all they seem to be, trouble is is that the makers take an age for anything of note to really happen on the screen, and when it does the intended frights and terror are tepidly played. Clancy Brown gives his character some plausible heft, Rebekah Brandes gives the best performance as the troubled teen striving to save her sister, but everything in the second half of the film falls apart; or down a giant plot hole if you prefer! The cool ending saves it from total damnation, mind. 5/10