A new trailer for the upcoming meta horror/comedy Fear Inc. (review) has been released and can be seen below. It will be released on VOD platforms on October 21st via Electric Entertainment.
The trailer doesn’t look all that bad, to be honest. There appear to be some solid gags as well as some effective practical FX. However, I will say that the main character Joe is already beginning to grate on my nerves. He seems like that horror fan that is proud of never being scared and demands the most intense thing ever. This is something I’ve been wanting to talk about for a while and I think I’ll write a piece about it in the near future, but the gist is that I think it’s okay to admit when something scares us and not have to put on an act or even allow ourselves to get so desensitized that we fail to feel that adrenaline rush we so relish. That’s part of the joy of watching a horror film!
When horror movie enthusiast Joe Foster (Lucas Neff) and his girlfriend, Lindsey Gains (Caitlin Stasey), are handed a business card for such a company, Joe’s curiosity gets the best of him. As the Fear, Inc experience seemingly begins, scares start popping up right out of Joe’s favorite horror movies, quickly turning him into a kid in a candy store. If the kid was a self righteous thirty year old and the candy store was the prop room from SAW. After a friend explains the company’s dangerous reputation, his rollercoaster of a journey goes from light hearted fun to uncomfortably realistic as things take a major turn for the worse. Joe’s sense of reality spirals out of control as he’s forced to take responsibility for his actions, no matter the cost.
Abigail Breslin – a genre veteran who has starred in Signs, Zombieland, The Call and Maggie – is featured with Lucas Neff (Raising Hope), Caitlin Stasey (All Cheerleaders Die, CW’s Reign), Chris Marquette (Freddy vs Jason, Alpha Dog), Stephanie Drake (Mad Men), Mark Moses, Eric Lange (Lost, Nightcrawler), Leslie Jordan (American Horror Story, Will&Grace), Naomi Grossman (American Horror Story), Ronnie Gene Blevins (The Dark Knight Rises, True Detective), Ashlynn Yennie (The Human Centipede I&II), Patrick Renna (The Sandlot), Richard Riehle (Office Space), David Ury (31, Breaking Bad).
