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Haunting Fear

  • Video
  • 1990
  • R
  • 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
4.5/10
706
YOUR RATING
Brinke Stevens in Haunting Fear (1990)
CrimeDramaFantasyHorrorRomanceThriller

A woman has nightmares of being buried alive which somehow awakens a long-repressed enity inside her while her greedy, cheating husband plots to murder her for her money.A woman has nightmares of being buried alive which somehow awakens a long-repressed enity inside her while her greedy, cheating husband plots to murder her for her money.A woman has nightmares of being buried alive which somehow awakens a long-repressed enity inside her while her greedy, cheating husband plots to murder her for her money.

  • Director
    • Fred Olen Ray
  • Writers
    • Edgar Allan Poe
    • Fred Olen Ray
  • Stars
    • Brinke Stevens
    • Jan-Michael Vincent
    • John Henry Richardson
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.5/10
    706
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Fred Olen Ray
    • Writers
      • Edgar Allan Poe
      • Fred Olen Ray
    • Stars
      • Brinke Stevens
      • Jan-Michael Vincent
      • John Henry Richardson
    • 18User reviews
    • 12Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Brinke Stevens
    Brinke Stevens
    • Victoria Munroe
    Jan-Michael Vincent
    Jan-Michael Vincent
    • Detective James Trent
    John Henry Richardson
    John Henry Richardson
    • Terry Munroe
    • (as Jay Richardson)
    Delia Sheppard
    Delia Sheppard
    • Lisa
    Karen Black
    Karen Black
    • Dr. Julia Harcourt
    Robert Clarke
    Robert Clarke
    • Dr. Carlton
    Robert Quarry
    Robert Quarry
    • Visconti
    Michael Berryman
    Michael Berryman
    • Mortician
    Hoke Howell
    Hoke Howell
    • Father Corpse
    Greta Carlson
    • Visconti's Girl
    • (as Sherri Graham)
    Mark Thomas McGee
    • Morgue Attendant #1
    Jeff Yesko
    • Morgue Attendant #2
    • Director
      • Fred Olen Ray
    • Writers
      • Edgar Allan Poe
      • Fred Olen Ray
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    User reviews18

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    6M. Dean

    Better than you'd think

    Looking at the box in the video store you will see names such as Fred Olen Ray, Brinke Stevens, Karen Black, and Jan-Michael Vincent. The kicker, of course, is "A Troma Team Release." These are not arguments for quality, and indeed there is no mistaking this film for anything other than a B-movie. However, it can be surprisingly effective, mostly due to the amount of heart Brinke Stevens puts into her portrayal of the lead character, the neurotic Victoria. If you want B-movie cheesiness and excess you'll uncover a fair helping of it here, but don't be surprised if you find yourself a bit more involved in the storyline than you originally expected.
    4capkronos

    Ha! You were actually expecting Poe?

    First off...with names like Fred Olen Ray, Brinke Stevens and Jan-Michael Vincent, plus distributors like "Rhino" and "Troma" on the video box, you know what you're getting into with this one. B movie mania! If you're actually expecting to see a thriller "based on Edgar Allan Poe," then forget it and head straight for the excellent series of Roger Corman 60s Poe films. This is pure, unadulterated sleaze (with just a pedestrian attempt at a plot similar to "The Premature Burial"), complete with lots of R-rated, ready-for-video sex and nudity. However, it's certainly entertaining and fun in a slipshod kind of way...

    Brinke (who has three nude scenes in the first 30 minutes) plays rich, traumatized, insomniac housewife Victoria Monroe, whose fear of being prematurely entombed stems from her belief that the same fate befell her father (Hoke Howell). Her worthless husband Terry (Jay Richardson) has racked up some serious gambling debt (owed to a gangster played by Robert Quarry) and, with help from his kinky, blonde, European-accented sexpot secretary Lisa (Delia Sheppard) plots to do away with Brinke for her money. Name-value actress Karen Black drops in briefly wearing a blonde wig as a hypnotist (she's way too talented to be playing an insignificant role like this), 50s sci-fi/horror star Robert Clarke plays a doctor and family friend and Michael Berryman shows up for a decent nightmare sequence performing an autopsy on a still-living Vicki. Jan-Michael Vincent mostly sits outside a house in his car making goo-goo eyes as Brinke enters and exits the home.

    The kill-a-spouse-for-the-inheritance plot has been done a million times before, the ending is an unintentional laugh riot (concluding with a direct rip-off of the Zuni Fetish Doll segment in TRILOGY OF TERROR) and whoever created the awful stabbed face and decapitated head FX for this release needs to sharpen up on their skills a bit. Brinke does a decent job making her character somewhat sympathetic, but the biggest surprise of all is how good former Penthouse Pet Delia Sheppard is in her role. She stole every scene she was in and easily gave the standout performance here.
    frisko1

    Not Bad! At All!

    I really enjoyed this movie, probably because I didn't expect much at all from it. It's got good atmosphere, suspense and scary moments. And Delia Sheppard...well she's just too good! Great ending as well, really creepy. I suggest you to watch it if you can.
    Robbie-43

    Poe little Brinke

    The auteur Olen Ray put his heart into this telling tale. It stars All-Century Eye Candy Hall of Fame member Brinke Stevens who can uncork our cask of Amontillado anytime. Ms. Stevens plays a woman with a haunting fear of premature burial. Her evil husband is hoping to usher her fall to gain possession of her house. Pitted against this man, will Ms. Stevens conquer her terrors against her worm of a husband or will the pendulum swing against her, driving her 'raven' mad? We apologize for this descent into the maelstrom and pledge to repeat it nevermore. All that stated, the film is enjoyable even though we can not understand why anyone married to Ms. Stevens would want to be cruel to her. Also, Ms. Stevens takes a bath in the film confirming the old adage that cleanliness is next to goddess-liness.
    4udar55

    Worth it if you like Brinke or director Fred Olen Ray; everyone else - run!

    Victoria Munroe (Brinke Stevens) is having nightmares that seem to be driving her husband Terry (Jay Richardson) nuts. Not because he fears for her well being, but because he wants her to die from her weak heart so that he can inherit her wealth and live high on the hog with his secretary Lisa (Delia Sheppard). Oh, and maybe pay off his gambling debt he owes to Italian mobster Visconti (the decidedly un-Italian Robert Quarry). Looking to speed up the process, Terry and Lisa decide to bury Victoria alive in order to scare her to death. Loosely based on Poe's "The Premature Burial" (hey, it has a premature burial), this Fred Olen Ray shocker is from his serviceable period with some decent FX, that same house he used in every other film (the brown one, not the white one) and nice photography by Gary Graver. This is probably the biggest role Stevens has ever had and she is fine as the stressed out wife. Her acting takes a slight turn for the worse when she is supposed to play psycho at the end. Jan-Michael Vincent, Karen Black, Hoke Howell, and Michael Berryman all got in one day of work in small roles. Vincent's role in the first half relies on him sitting in a parked car and staring at things. Ray obviously knew him well.

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    • Trivia
      Brinke Stevens considers 'Haunting Fear' to be her finest dramatic performance, and has named it as her favorite of her films in several interviews.
    • Connections
      Featured in 100 Years of Horror: Scream Queens (1996)

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    • Release date
      • March 1991 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Edgar Allan Poe's Haunting Fear
    • Filming locations
      • 1650 Rockwood St, Los Angeles, California, USA(As Victoria Munroe's home. Building still intact.)
    • Production company
      • American Independent Productions
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    • Budget
      • $115,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 28 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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