In Fear is a movie about two people who get lost while trying to drive to a festival in Ireland.  Tom (Iain De Caestecker) and Lucy (Alice Englert) have only been dating for two weeks and Tom is already inviting her to a festival and going behind her back to make reservations at a hotel.  Tom says, “It’s our two-week anniversary,” and that should have been red flag city.  Two weeks is only 14 days.  That’s a lifetime for some creatures but not humans.

Tom and Lucy drive up and down a country road, trying to find the hotel but they keep on ending up back at the same location, sitting in front of run-down fence with a sign that says “KEEP OUT” sitting on it.  Lucy thinks that she sees someone following the car but Tom isn’t so sure until someone actually tries to grab Lucy.  They meet a bloody man named Max (Allen Leech), who says that there are a group of madmen who are stalking Tom and Lucy because of an earlier altercation at a pub.

In Fear was scary for the first half and then, during the second half, there were some things that happened that didn’t really make much sense to me.  Some of the twists felt half-baked and sometimes, the characters behaved in ways that didn’t make much sense.  Of course, speaking of making sense, I wouldn’t go on a road trip with someone who I had only been dating for two weeks.  Road trips are the ultimate relationship test so you better make sure that you and your partner are really compatible before you even attempt one!  Tom and Lucy were sweet together but they should have waited before going to the country together.  And Tom definitely shouldn’t have made hotel reservations without talking to Lucy first.  A lot of trouble could have been avoided if Tom hadn’t been so eager to celebrate that two-week anniversary.

Despite those inconsistencies, In Fear was scary enough to make me jump.  It’s the type of horror movie that you should not watch in the dark.  I locked all the doors as soon as it was over.