Fear Runs Silent

Avoid at all cost!

After seeing this movie I understand why there is not a single positive comment listed here: it's because this movie does not deserve any!

The director is either completely unskilled, or he tried to go beyond what did lay within his capacities. This movie is a confusing mixture of a dime-a-dozen teenage horror flick and a story told through flashbacks/flash forwards which end up confusing everyone as to what is going on. Every time the 'regular' action gets remotely interesting, there is a cut to another scene in which the main character has some stupid therapy session. How boring!

Seriously, I cannot believe this drivel was released. What amazes me even more is that the director has since directed many more movies - you'd expect the studios to never want him on a set again.

The only thing remotely redeeming about this movie is the short scene in which the main character strips her pants off. And that's pretty sad.

The effects are horrible (men in suits, fake fangs and with yellow contacts... ooh scary...), there is no plot to speak of (if you find it, let met know) and there is nothing exciting or fun about it.

For a start I'm not interested in adding nothing new in this review."Fear Runs Silent" has a good premise,but this premise is completely wasted.Director Serge Rodnunsky doesn't create almost any atmosphere(apart from the beginning,which is pretty creepy),instead he fills this trash with so many annoying flashbacks.The ending is totally awful:after all these grisly events it all turns into dream!!!Yeah right,what a load of s***!!Three stars:one for a funny performance by Stacy Keach as a biologist,one for beautiful photography,and finally one for the beginning.Avoid this mess like the plague.

I don't expect a lot from straight-to-video movies. So I'm very forgiving, especially if I've been entertained in some small way that justifies the price of the rental.

I'm sorry I wasted my money on Fear Runs Silent.

This movie tries to keep you in suspense wondering if Kerry, the terrorized main character, is living the minimally bloody horror in reality, in nightmares, or in psychotic hallucinations.

This sort of thing competently done can make for an exciting film with a clever, satisfying ending.

Fear Runs Silent was simply incompetent.

Saw this on Sky Movies a while back and I have to say this is a total mess of a film. Maybe it was because I was tired, but hardly anything in this film made any sense at all, and wasn't one of those "teenagers" the demonology expert from 'Night of the Demons 2'?

There are two plotlines shambolically merged together in this film, both centering around Kerry (Suzanne Davis). In one plot we have a group of teenagers on a field trip being attacked by bigfoot-type creatures, in the other we have Kerry seeing a psychiatrist due to depression and nightmares (one assumes that Kerry is seeing the psychiatrist after the events of the field trip). A story about Kerry's childhood eventually unfolds but it would be quite easy to lose track, especially with the completely nonsensical ending.

It's almost impossible to fully understand what is going on due to the directors decision to flash back and forth constantly between the two storylines, and also showing images and visions that appear to have no place in the film at all. Even some of the characters seemed to have no place in the film like a Native American who, as far as I remember, says and does next to nothing. The acting was also atrocious, even from more accomplished actors like Billy Dee Williams and Stacey Keach. Why they got involved in this disaster-piece I will never know.

The direction and screenplay are pitiful, full of pointless "filler" such as snowball fights and some half-assed attempt at a love story. I suppose, as far as the main stories go, the director was trying to make a film that required thought to fully immerse yourself in the world he created, unfortunately he failed. There is nothing, in my opinion, that redeems this film. To me this ranks alongside disasterous films like 'Killjoy' and 'Camp Blood'.

I'd avoid this movie, it's not worth the 90 mins of your life. I actually switched it off at one point, but realising there were only 15 minutes left I thought I may as well watch the rest, I'd got that far after all. If you do watch it, expect nothing.

2/10

"Fear Runs Silent" could have been a really awesome 1970's throwback if they kept it as simple "teenagers go to the woods and find danger" movie, but instead the producers and screenwritter decided to go for a "what's real and what's not?" approach and it really hurt the movie.

What keeps it from being a total waste is the very efficient cast and scenes where the woods danger attacks. They're really well done and are worth seeing.

If you realy like late 1990's horror or horror movies set in the woods or just wanna see a young Cerina Vincent, check it out. If not, watch "the final terror" (1983) instead!