Deadliest of all, “Fear” is just not scary. The jump scares don’t land, the fears themselves are all a bit silly and it feels like Taylor is holding back for the majority of the run time.

A wonderfully nasty film that revels in its lack of originality...

It is frustrating to watch Fear carelessly oscillate between creature feature, haunted house movie, and folk horror.

Not everyone will want to watch another Pandemic horror movie anytime soon, particularly one that tries to contextualize this period and its zeitgeist using dreadful imagery and barely disguised metaphors.