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"Rated R for terror and violence, nudity throughout" - perfect line for your average snuff movie.

Yet, this movie has a bit more quality. The nudity is non-pornographic. The sexuality shown is sometimes erotic, but not perverse.

The plot: Sadistic killer versus innocent, naive, girl. Seen often before.

After the first 10 minutes I thought of giving this a 4 out of 10 or less, for its stereotypes, standard patterns of story development and rather bad acting and camera work. But as the story developed, it actually became an entertaining movie. I thought the naive girl was believable in her actions, and somehow the camera and sound work seemed to improve as well. Even the nudity was fitting in without being exploiting.

I try to avoid spoilers in the first comment for this movie, so I just try give you an idea of what you might like about it: You don't have to turn away every other scene thinking: wow, this is stupid, why in world would he/she do that? Meaning it's mostly believable. And it's not explicit - meaning that even thought this movie contains cruelty, it does not show it off with lots of gore. It's quite subtle at it.

It's still your basic thriller with some mild horror elements mixed in. No greatness in the dialogues or in the action scenes (well, the ending line it great). I found it enjoyable, only the acting of the supporting cast and the sound sometimes irritated me. I'd recommend this to anyone wanting to see a not-too-violent thriller with some depth and a few surprises.

If your idea of fun is watching a naked woman running through the wilderness while being hunted down by a redneck with crossbows and rifles, then maybe this film is for you.

A stripper names Diana is lured to New Mexico by a night club owner promising big money to her for her great dancing ability. Her license and all identification are taken and she is forced into prostitution. The first client knocks her out and she wakes up in a field, nude.

The great white hunter gives Diana a fifteen minute head start and then the games begin; first with the crossbow, then with the rifle. The chase is silly, with the only redeeming feature being Danielle De Luca's sexy body without clothes, running like a deer caught in the headlights, and her's are on. Did the great Joe Mantegna read the script before joining the cast, or did he need the pay check? The supposed twist ending is just not believable, and the plot is an old one, dating back to The Most Dangerous Game.

I suspect some might question my reasons for liking this movie, but I actually liked it a lot. While movies on terror nowadays seem to involve gore and torture, this one is more mental. Oh yes, the title does say naked fear and it does involve nudity, but for me the real horror here is where it should be - a mental thing. I do think for many of us perhaps the most frightening thing is for us to be vulnerable and scared - even more so than the events themselves that scare us. And what could make one more vulnerable than to be naked, alone, and fearing someone out to kill you? If you can identify at all with this actress, you might come away with something of real horror and true fear - and yet have that fear without the chainsaws and other items of gore so frequent nowadays. It would be wrong to say what happens, but I do think the plot developed well and led to a story that I felt perhaps was more believable than some who rated this movie. And maybe since this is situational mental horror, the movie just might stay in our minds more than the simplistic slasher movies.

I'm surprised by the large amount of positive reviews for this movie. Okay I get it that for some men it's a bit entertaining to watch a naked woman running in the wild, but let's face it the whole thing is pretty low budget. At least that's how it feels in about everything in this movie. The acting, from some, is just not good at all. The cinematography is average, sometimes mediocre. Some running scenes are just not well shot at all. And then you get the story, one where the victim makes bad decisions after bad decisions. She could have get rid of the problem several times, and that makes the story just of low quality. Not that I expected much else in this genre but still.

I'll be the first to admit that the first thing to greet me when I saw a clip of this movie late on TV one night was a naked woman running through the forest. And I don't mean naked - I mean, really NAKED! Nothing was left to the imagination. I remember thinking, "What the hell kind of late-night porn movie is this?" I only found out later when I was able to pry my eyes off the beautiful body of a naked woman running through the woods that the movie was called "Naked Fear," and it wasn't a late-night soft-core porn movie on Showtime.

People will have a lot of difficulty buying that last part.

But I kept an open mind and gave "Naked Fear" the benefit of the doubt that it wasn't late-night soft-core porn. It is, however, one step above it, though, and that is the fact that the movie is a very cheap, but occasionally very gripping low-budget exploitation thriller. And there is a plot in addition to the needless titillation; the movie does make an attempt to tell a story.

"Naked Fear" is loosely based on the crimes of the real-life Alaskan serial killer Robert Hansen, who during the 1970s would kidnap young women (mostly prostitutes), dump them into the Alaskan wilderness, and then hunt them down and kill them for sport. The film also takes inspirational cues from the famous 1924 short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell. In this low-budget film directed by a man (obviously), Thom Eberhardt, and written by a - wait for it - woman, Christine Vasquez - Diana Kelper (Danielle De Luca) is a young woman traveling across the country in the hopes of making it as a dancer.

She stops off in a small Midwestern town where hunting is a popular pastime. It also turns out that in this town, there have been a string of disappearances involving young women, which may or may not be the work of a serial killer. But because most of these young women were prostitutes, the police don't really take the disappearances seriously enough to investigate further.

Because Diane has little in the way of cash and little other recourse, she is forced to take a job as a stripper at a seedy strip club. One night, she makes the mistake of conversing with a smooth-talking stranger and the next thing she knows, she's waking up in the woods completely naked. She learns that the man who picked her up in the bar the night before, Colin Mandel (J.D. Garfield), is a serial killer who likes to dump naked women in the wilderness, and then hunt them down and kill them for sport, and she will soon have to call upon her most primal instincts if she wants to survive. It also doesn't help matters much that Mandel also works for the sheriff's department and is actually a highly respected sheriff's officer. Meanwhile, a determined deputy named Dwight Terry (Arron Shiver) investigates Diane's mysterious disappearance much to the protests of his superior Tom Benike (Joe Mantegna).

"Naked Fear," despite its budget limitations and exploitative values, is occasionally a very gripping and very suspenseful film. I don't imagine anyone going into this movie for a thought-provoking plot that muses on the philosophy of men hunting other human beings for sport. You also won't get stellar acting performances here, but I will sing a few praises for the plucky young heroine in this movie that is Danielle De Luca.

Beautiful De Luca is a virtually unknown actress, yet despite her limited acting abilities (she may very well have been cast here due to her looks and nothing else), you do have to give her just due for baring it all in this picture. There's a good 20-minute stretch of "Naked Fear" where she is completely in the nude, and nothing is merely suggested or left to the viewer's imagination or covered up by conveniently placed objects. I have no idea when this was filmed but if the season was right, then De Luca must be given credit for braving the elements in her birthday suit and not much else. And there is no doubt that she has the battle scars to prove her experiences. Other than her brave and daring performance here, there isn't really anything else I can imagine recommending this flick for, unless you really want to see her in the buff for 20 minutes.

"Naked Fear" also has a disappointing ending, considering everything Diana goes through, and makes the film appear even cheaper than it actually is. The ending, to me, is just totally unrealistic for what was initially presented to us in the beginning. It seems as if, to me, anyway, that the filmmakers may have stolen the ending from a completely different movie and tacked it onto this one.

Since "Naked Fear" is a lot better than it initially appears at the outset, I'm giving it a fair rating here.

5/10

The plot was expected and until the actual center piece abduction takes place its normal horror movie fair. Then from the title(and cover)you would expect a naked or half naked cutie running around doing stupid stuff until she is finally caught an snuffed out, but despite the long interlude of nudity while running. you actually focus on the story and get behind the protagonist and want her to win. As a normal red blooded male, I really enjoy in a film that has the obvious eye candy of a pretty girl nude, when it makes sense, and doesn't stand in the way of the plot, and is not pornographic. I for one haven't seen that type of appeal sense the emerald forest. I thought the very end like the beginning was a bit contrived and hooky, but neither end stopped this from being a very watchable and enjoyable film. My Hat is off to the cast and crew of this very good budget sleeper.

The acting truly feels like the theatre kids got to star in their first movie, not understanding that overly dramatised emotions and actions doesn't translate to film.

You can see what feeling the script was going for, as the words and actions generally fit the plot. But the delivery is extremely unnatural in almost all scenes. You can easily picture the director giving instructions right before the shooting. "You start to look away but then you realise what you were just seeing, and your head snaps back in surprise."

The pacing of the movie is pretty good though, and despite the acting being off-putting, my viewing party and I continuously wanted to know what would happen next, which is always a good sign.

I could have done without, but I don't regret watching it. My one tip is to imagine it's theatre instead of film, and it'll be a pretty decent experience!

Going into this film I thought two things: 1. Another new take on "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell(Which is one of my favorite short fictions) 2.It would be an attempt at successful "exploitation" films of the 60's, with all the titillation, terrible acting, and fake blood that were synonymous with those films...How wrong I was.

I was unaware that this was actually based on the killings of serial killer Robert Hansen, which this was very accurately based, except he was in Alaska and the film takes place in New Mexico.

As far as cast and acting goes, it was rather well done. Strong plot(which isn't hard being based on actual events). The title, cover art, and synopsis would lead one to believe that this IS an attempt at an exploitation film and yes it does have the nudity to concur, though as another reviewer had added, the plot and solid acting of the lead got to a point that I didn't care she was nude and was actually yelling at the character in an already made film to "MOVE NOW" or "look behind you"(come on most of us have done it).

All in all, not Oscar worthy, but a very enthralling and well rounded film. A definite 7 out of 10.

I got more than I bargained for with "Naked Fear". I wasn't expecting much. I figured I'd be getting a low budget skin-fest but this movie had more to offer than that. Sure, Danielle De Luca spends half of the movie running around naked but "Naked Fear" also had a pretty good story. The performances, for the most part, were also a lot better than I expected. Joe (How did I end up in this movie?) Mantegna actually ends up giving one of the movie's weaker performances. Mantegna's country boy accent is pretty lame. A major problem "Naked Fear" has is its length. A movie like this should never be longer than an hour and a half. This one clocks in at 1 hour and 48 minutes. That's just too long.

When visiting Germany I came across the Naked Fear box, it was ultra cheap so I picked it up and only seen part 1 I wasn't disappointed. Being a horror buff I wouldn't really classify it under horror but more under a thriller. The reason is simple, it's all about being hunted by a killer.

This flick is really a slow starter, it takes around 40 minutes before it turns into what the title says. The first 40 minutes you start to know Diana (Danielle De Luca), a girl going to a town without any money. So she needs money and only can do it by stripping in a bar. But that doesn't bring in real cash so she also do men after stripping until she come across a nice guy. It's from that point that this flick turns into a horror. But not that much blood is shown, it's all about running away from the hunter. Diana is being hunted in full nudity. It's weird that in the strip club she doesn't reveal anything but once in the woods she shows it all.

the whole story reminded me of two real cases, serial killer Robert Hansen who also kidnapped prostitutes and let them run in the forest to be hunted down, the second case is that of Aileen Wuornos.

A rather good flick, you just want to know how it going to end. It never bored me although that some acting was bad and a few editing mistakes like then she has bruises on her leg and the next shot they are gone or the first victim when buried you can see her breath while she's supposed to be death.

Gore 1/5 Nudity 4/5 Effects 2/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

The whole movie kind of feels like an excuse to have a naked good looking woman running around in the woods, but I don't even mind that too much. The premise is really simple and nothing groundbreaking and we get to know our lead quite a bit before she ends up in this horrible situation.

Danielle De Luca gets physically strained as this helpless victim, however I think her acting wasn't convincing enough. Especially in the calmer scenes her acting was pretty dry and I didn't buy her character. The antagonist also wasn't really memorable which could have definitely improved this movie.

This is definitely no masterpiece and there are quite a few flaws however it's main goal is to entertain and I think the movie does a decent job at that. The low budget is definitely noticeable and I was also not a big fan of the ending, which is obviously the lasting memory of the movie and for that I think this is an average flick with not much to offer but also definitely watchable. [5,0/10]