Fear Frequency

I love psychological thrillers, and I also love indie films with good acting. Fear Frequency provides all of these. From the very beginning of the movie, the main character, Jackie, has you wondering whether she is simply a conspiracy theorist or someone who is descending into a deep psychosis. Actress Julienne Davis pulls that off in this movie superbly. She blends confidence with fear, humor with anger, and sound mindedness with extreme anxiety. You never really know what is going on in this movie -- and that leaves you waiting for the next scene to find out more. And, by the next scene, you are second-guessing your assumptions about the scene that became before. Did her neighbor actually come over to help her evacuate her home? Did she really see Endo Dave? Did someone actually enter her house? Is this her imagination or is it a dream? Julienne Davis is able to make you wonder whether her character, Jackie, actually believes what she is experiencing or whether she thinks she's going crazy.

The acting is excellent on all fronts, but it is Julienne Davis who truly makes the movie and shows she can carry a movie in the lead role. She's literally in every scene and able to make you feel sympathy for Jackie -- and relate to her.

It's often hard to trust our traditional sources of truth anymore. We are lied to all the time, and we have to figure out a person's or an organization's motives before we can believe them. That's what Jackie must do. And we get to find out if she can. Or do we?