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A Fantastic Fear of Everything
MEANRANK
50/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 31, highest is AlloCiné on 66. Critics average 32, everyone else 57.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A paranoid children's author, while researching a book about Victorian serial killers, becomes consumed by an overwhelming fear of being murdered. His phobias escalate, trapping him in his own home and distorting his perception of reality. A simple trip to the laundromat transforms into what he believes is a life-or-death mission, forcing him to confront the monsters of his own imagination.
Details
- Directors
- Chris Hopewell, Crispian Mills
- Writer
- Crispian Mills
- Based on
- a work by Bruce Robinson
- Released
- 7 June 2012
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $1.5M
- Box office
- $96.9K
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