Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Mild
- anxious
- macabre
- surreal
- simon pegg binge
- dark comedy night
What critics said
Critics found the premise distinctive and Simon Pegg committed, but broadly considered the dark humor uneven and the film less consistently funny than its setup suggests.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Jack's fear of murder transforms research, domestic chores, and everyday encounters into comic sources of escalating panic.
Jack's detailed study of Victorian serial killers leaves him convinced that murder is imminent and shapes his breakdown.
The story combines serial-killer material, personal demons, and disturbing fears with deliberately eccentric situational comedy.
Jack's script opportunity and Hollywood attention rapidly become the setting for his professional and psychological collapse.
Films like A Fantastic Fear of Everything, and why
The Voices
darkly comic paranoia, eccentric protagonist, and horror-inflected psychological breakdown
World's Greatest Dad
anxiety-driven dark comedy with a psychologically unstable central character and macabre humor
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
British eccentricity, uncomfortable comedy, and escalating paranoia surrounding an isolated protagonist
Movie Details
- Director
- Crispian Mills
- Release Date
- 2012-06-07
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Rating
- 5.7 / 10 (326)
Cast
- Simon Pegg
- Paul Freeman
- Clare Higgins
- Amara Karan
- Alan Drake
- Michael Feast
- Mo Idriss
- Elliot Greene
- Harley Kierans
- Kamal Onyiukah
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Shout! Factory Amazon Channel
- Rent
- Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is A Fantastic Fear of Everything about?
- A paranoid crime novelist spirals through a darkly comic nightmare of serial-killer research, domestic disorder, and self-confrontation.
- What is A Fantastic Fear of Everything like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of A Fantastic Fear of Everything as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is A Fantastic Fear of Everything violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in A Fantastic Fear of Everything as mild.
- What did critics think of A Fantastic Fear of Everything?
- Critics found the premise distinctive and Simon Pegg committed, but broadly considered the dark humor uneven and the film less consistently funny than its setup suggests.
- Which films are like A Fantastic Fear of Everything?
- Films with a similar feel include The Voices, World's Greatest Dad, and The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse.
- How long is A Fantastic Fear of Everything?
- A Fantastic Fear of Everything runs 100 minutes.
- Where can I watch A Fantastic Fear of Everything?
- In United States, A Fantastic Fear of Everything streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Shout! Factory Amazon Channel.
