Nothing Left to Fear

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This an okay movie. Good if you need to kill a couple of hours. However, the plot line is bizarre. You are left wondering why they do the things they do. The story does not set you up with any background on the town, and why the townspeople are so weird. Also, they say this is based on events and urban legends surrounding Stull, KS. They missed the mark, and then over exaggerated it. This storyline has nothing to do with anything that has ever happened in Stull, KS. Also, Stull, KS had two strange murders years ago, and is barely a town. It is unincorporated. There is an old church and cemetery where they say satanic rituals are performed, and a few houses, and a few other buildings. Regarding the real Stull and the old church - for reasons unknown to anyone including the land owner, someone tore down the old tiny brick church a few years ago. It is a pile of rubble. However, there is still a staircase underneath the ground, that leads down to no-where. They say that is a gateway to hell and you will feel a powerful pull if you start down the stairs, and lose all track of time (like weeks). And people who have camped near the cemetery have reported seriously bizarre stuff and sounds. There is nothing like the real Stull legends in the movie. Regarding the movie, the children/young adult actors in this movie dominate the film, and if it weren't for them, it would be pretty robotic and dull. Heche was not into this movie at all, it seemed like she felt obligated to be there. Bottomline -- it's definitely more bizarre than scary, so watch it if you are bored and you have seen every other scary flick with a higher rating.

After having seen the movie, I must admit that there honestly was nothing left to fear. Well, actually, there was nothing to fear to begin with. This movie starts out fairly slow, and takes its sweet time before it gets into gear and starts to go places. That being said, then don't get me wrong, I am not saying that the movie is bad. It was just slow paced. And to be blunt, then "Nothing Left to Fear" was not really scary or disturbing in any way. The story is about a family that travels halfway across the USA to relocate to a new place where the father is to assume the responsibility as the new pastor in a small, idyllic rural town. However, the townspeople are keeping a dark, evil secret; a secret that has already been set into motion as the family rolls into town. Storywise, then "Nothing Left to Fear" was alright. Nothing spectacular, but not boring either. It was a fairly good story, just a shame that it failed to be scary or really creep under your skin. As for the acting, well then people were doing good jobs with their given roles. And the ensemble of actors and actresses here was quite good. With the hinting of a reoccurring event towards the end of the movie, all that the movie had built up just shattered to pieces. So without knowing just how many families have come here for the purpose of thwarting evil, doesn't anyone wonder why so many pastors and their families relocate to here only to never be heard from again? That ending was just fatally wrong to the entire storyline. Having seen the movie, I sit here feeling somewhat that the movie tried to accomplish so much, but failed to deliver on almost all accounts.

the beginning wasn't creepy i started looking at my watch to see when it will end everything was so expected the priest, the people in the village everything, i have no idea whats the thing about the cheeps, the devil girl killed everyone too quickly i mean i didn't have time to be scared and the way she killed them with wasn't that scary i mean i was watching a very ugly girl turning every one to dust that's it and when she crawl i can do it better and why did she crawl it wasn't scary at all, if u watch the triller you will be able to understand the entire idea of the movie and the ending and the whole ritual wasn't understandable watch it only if u have nothing else to watch or do

As some of the other reviewers in here have mentioned, this isn't the kind of horror film that has a kill every ten minutes or rivers of blood coming from the walls. Instead, it takes time to build characters and because you get to know the characters, the story starts to unfold as well. This is a well done film from a first time director who was lucky enough to secure a good veteran cast and some good younger talent. Clancy Brown plays a small town retiring pastor who is helping the new pastor and his family get acclimated to his new job and surroundings. His motives at first seem to be genuine but this wouldn't be a horror movie if the local town pastor didn't have some kind of devious Machiavellian machinations to tend to. Without spoiling it, the film has elements of Wicker Man, Rosemary's Baby and about half a dozen other low budget horror films. It's well written, well acted and the production design is the films strength. The small town is photographed to look like something you'd see out of Children of the Corn or Cujo. Everyone smiles to your face while planning your demise. Rebekah Brandes and Ethan Peck are the eye candy of the film but they too play their roles well. Brandes has some strange lines to utter but she makes them sound natural. Horror films come in all shapes and sizes. This one has the slow burn and buildup of films like The Shining. The end is a nice payoff. If you have ADD then this film probably won't interest you. But if you like to see characters and situations build so that the end can kind of horrify you, then you have found the right film. 7/10

Of course the movie title is telling us something and you might guess what it is, long before this is over. This might either be, because you've seen a few horror movies yourself or you just can spot where this is heading anyway. Not a difficult task to achieve, especially with this movie being full of clichés. The acting is as solid as you'd expect it to be with a movie like this, though it is on a level that is TV drama (not the good kind). The ending is so obvious it might hurt (for the wrong reasons) and the misleading is not really that (I don't think anyone falls for that, although they try hard, giving us clues that make no sense).

This is probably a film would make a passable 'first horror' film for a teenager ... however as a thirty something I found it dull, facile and utterly boring. If you like a film with some sort of pace - this is certainly not the film for you. It's a shame as the cast seems promising and the premise is actually quite interesting. The main issue this film has is it is sloooooow to the point of being a cure for insomnia. I'm assuming the idea was to give the viewer plenty of 'getting to know you' room with the characters so we really really care about them, get invested in them. Yeah -that doesn't happen here. All that happens is you find yourself watching the clock waiting to see how long it is before it ends. Adding to that is lacklustre cinematography, dull scripts and painful to watch teen led drama and all in all this film is a fail.

It's quite rare I can't find anything at least partly entertaining from a horror movie, this one is one of the rare exceptions that confirms the rule. I've seen tons of "indie" horror movies that were made with only bits of the budget of that movie, that could at least make me feel entertained. Very disappointing. The acting is painfully bad, the story doesn't tie together with it's holes filled plot, the image is grainy and poor and as if it wasn't enough, the CGIs are so lame it makes it that much more painful to watch. Even the few attempts at cheap scares don't even work! There are so many goofs that made it through the editing, I believe the poor soul that had to do it probably fell asleep. I had a hard time staying awake as the whole movie was so boring. Love yourselves and don't waste time watching this poor movie.

This is a nice story that was told "not so well as it deserved". The beginning is good, and you expect more than you actually get from it. I advise: It worth watching, it's a good movie. The only thing that makes it a 6/10 is that the film ends and you still have questions about the story. Things that weren't explained correctly in the movie(and they are very important to build the movie's logic) The actors were fine, but there were actions that we can call "irrational" and disgusted me a little bit. Not all the scenes, but in the beginning of the end, when the things start to happen, 2 or 3 "dumb" scenes/actions... But overall is a good movie, maybe you have a different opinion about it, that depends I think. For me, 6/10. Could be more.

Classic example of a film that had potential but which also had a producer who failed to see the importance of an actual story-line. (Which made any sense) The story follows a family being lured to a village on the pretense of the father (a pastor) taking a job at the village church. The villagers have an ulterior motive. One of the family members is selected to be possessed by the devil, in a pagan type "wickerman" village ritual. The devil (occupying the body of possessed family member) is then left about its business to kill all but one of the family members. The remaining one is used in a further ritual to banish the devil back to wherever it came from. The next family is lured to the village to continue the cycle. All this is fine and dandy. But there is no explanation of crucial background details / any details to make sense of the plot? Why the devil is given a sacrifice from a family to possess for just long enough to kill part of that family, before being unhappily banished again? What happens if the cycle doesn't take place? What is the criteria of the ritual which needs to be fulfilled? One dead, two dead? Once a year? Maybe Just don't bother and see what happens?? Also things happen throughout the film which seem irrelevant or unexplained; At one point the father within the doomed family is rendered unconscious with chloroform over his face and locked in a church. Why did that happen? Did they intend to save him from the devil? At one point the other pastor of the village coughs up black blood when the possessed member (devil) is injured - I hoped this would lead to a twist in the plot which explained that he was manufacturing the whole need for this ritual due to an evil pseudo identity- but nothing more came of it. At one point there is red crosses painted on the doors and at others scenes of sheep having their blood drained into buckets- can we assume one is connected to ther other. Can we assume the red Sheep blood crosses keeps the devil out? (Why?) Assuming things is the theme of this movie. all in all it's always enjoyable watching scenes of possessed people killing their family members. Even if completely random with no explanation for why it is necessary is ever given. On a side note Can't help but notice striking resemblance between "the devil" and the grumpy girl from the well in "the ring" :)