Fear Clinic (2014)

Very chilling horror movie unlike many others. I was greatly surprised with the synopsis and with the effects. It's a new technology of making a horror, I have never seen any movie technique with this one.The movie shows doctor who helps the people overcoming human eldest emotion. After dozes of years helping, a girl comes back to the clinic for an another experiment but the doctor refuses her request as it may be dangerous but the young woman persists with her request. The patients in the clinic are acquaintances who share the same fate. Later on the doctor starts experiencing creepy hallucinations after he tested the fluid which came out a woman who passed away in the clinic. Afterwards the young lady is not the only one who requests the second treatment and the doctor agrees to do it. Creepy things in the movie are happening during the story line and things are going even more twisted.

Never watched the web series this is based on/off/spinned of. But there seems to be flashes that have snippets of that in them. I might be wrong about that, and if so they did a good editing job making people believe it was something from the past in this movie. Robert Englund is really good in this, as expected.The cast in general is pretty solid (no pun intended) and the gore effects are good too. Tension is OK and the movie has a twist or two along the way (though again, no idea if you'd be aware of anything if you have already seen the web series). There's one bit of nudity, if that's something you hate or are looking forward too, but in general it's about ... fear. Obviously, and the effect it can have on people - with a bit of a science fiction bit thrown in for good measure

I was pretty disappointed by this film. It wasn't as bad as it could have been since there are some big stinkers out there, but it also could have been a lot better. If you're expecting closure from the web series, look elsewhere. This movie ignores anything that happened before and reinvents the story for a new audience. That isn't entirely bad since it gives the story a chance to reinvent itself, but the problem here is that what we're given doesn't really live up to expectations. Englund does a pretty good job here and part of me really enjoyed seeing a more sympathetic Anders, but the lack of a cold, calculating Anders willing to achieve results by putting lives in jeopardy was what made the web series so much fun. He wasn't necessarily a sadist, but this posed a good question as to what would happen when things went south and the man in charge is already willing to put people in danger to forge new ground. In a way he was one of the web series's monsters. The ending wasn't awful, but by the time the film ended I was already ready for the closing credits. There are some great special effects here and everyone tries really, really hard, but this just didn't work out and I can't help but think that this would have fared better as a web series rather than a film.

My quick rating - 5,3/10. Not a bad movie in the "fear consumes" ideal. Slightly above average flick revolving around people being tested on in a chamber to face their fears, in this case, that of a masked man shooting up everyone in a restaurant. All the characters are intertwined to this shooting in some way until Fear itself is able to enter the real world to destroy them. Sounds hooky, which it is, but done fairly well and has a few nice chilling spots. All and all, worth watching (a Chiller TV original, so find it there) and don't be upset they tried so hard not to be a b-budget flick..it was hidden well. Oh, and yes, Corey Taylors first movie....but...he had hardly anything to do with it, just a character. BUT at the end the credits do roll to Stone Sour remaking the song "The Dark" by Metal Church, so it has that going for it.