TV-Reviewed

The horror genre has really hit a low when it comes to movies. Fear Itself seems to pride itself on bringing horror to the small screen. It’s hard enough trying to scare someone within an hour and a half and most movies fail at that. Fear Itself doesn’t do anything to change the horror genre in any way, and in fact, this episode sets the horror genre back a bit.

This week’s story focused on criminals who find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere. They find an old house and are befriended by three women. The guys think that these women are here to help, but they soon find out that these women are trying to kill them. One by one, the men all stupidly fall for these seductive women, and one by one, each of the men get into deadly situations which end up leading to death for all of them.

First off, trying to fit a good horror story in an hour is a hard task. Most movies don’t even fit a good horror story with the time they’re given. It’s hard to tell exactly what Fear Itself is aiming for. It’s not really a blood-fest, and there’s no actual sex scenes or really anything close to sex in the show, and it’s not scary in that jumpy type of way.

Every episode is going to be a different story and every episode will be directed by somebody else. This would be interesting, but the problem is that I can’t imagine there being any episode too good in the future. There’s just not enough time or as much lee way on national broadcast tv to get any good horror out of the show.

The acting was horrible, and at some points, the dialogue was hard to listen too. I think this was probably the wrong choice to pick up this show at all. This just wasn’t a good first episode and I doubt that it’ll get any better from here on out.

Fear Itself - The Sacrifice
Original Air Date: June 05, 2008

Rating: 4.9