{"id":18581,"date":"2014-10-22T07:30:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T11:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=18581"},"modified":"2016-01-17T07:37:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T12:37:05","slug":"nothing-left-to-fear-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/22\/nothing-left-to-fear-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Left to Fear (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cNothing Left to Fear\u201d is the prime example of a horror movie that has nothing to offer, and tries to cover it up with fancy special effects and clunky metaphor. The problem is that even those gimmicks don\u2019t work to conceal what is an amateur, tedious, and pointless remake of \u201cThe Wicker Man\u201d where another group of people or persons become the sacrificial lambs to religious fanaticism. We know they\u2019re the sacrificial lambs because when our characters The Bramfords arrive in their new town, they see a lamb being sacrificed. Get it? Foreshadowing! Symbolism!<\/p>\n

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The only thing \u201cNothing Left to Fear\u201d has going for it are the presences of Jennifer Stone and Clancy Brown. And they\u2019re both wasted in a movie where director Anthony Leonardi III really seemed to enjoy doling out lame special effects and pointless CGI for nothing more than rote hicksploitation. It feels like he was given the carte blanche at a budget for special effects, and spends about eighty percent of the movie giving us endless pointless jump scares and pixilated horror whenever he can. That and he really loves to set the camera on star Rebekah Brandes who plays Rebecca. Granted, she\u2019s a very attractive and often buxom presence, but that becomes a mere afterthought when she fails to squeeze out even the most mundane line of dialogue convincingly. That\u2019s a shame since the movie lives and breathes by her character\u2019s experience in a small town in Kansas.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s the oldest daughter of a pastor who\u2019s just uprooted his family to a small town to become the new pastor. But things seem weird when the town folks aren\u2019t exactly welcoming, and she begins romancing an often dodgy hunk in town who is intent on seducing and romancing her. What for? Who knows? It\u2019s never explained why she has to be targeted other than she\u2019s very good looking. Really, the focus is pitted on Rebecca\u2019s sister Mary (the aforementioned infinitely more talented, and more appealing Jennifer Stone), who becomes the prime target for the town\u2019s devious plans. This involves possession, sacrifice (because the lambs, you see), and opening a portal of some kind.<\/p>\n

Really, we\u2019re told that the town is at the foot of a portal in to evil, and they\u2019re tasked with sacrificing people to its demonic presence. Why? Who knows? All I\u2019m curious is, if they\u2019re anxious to keep the doorway closed, why do they open it and allow the entity to possess someone and wreak havoc on the world? Isn\u2019t that kind of counter productive? The Bramfords have zero focus set on them, unless they\u2019re sharing the screen with Brandes, so when they\u2019re murdered, we never really care. We\u2019re never given time to explore them, and understand them, thus they\u2019re really just cannon fodder for the inevitable round of Pastor\u2019s Busty Daughter vs. Sister from Dimension Evil. \u201cNothing Left to Fear\u201d is a hundred minutes of nothing. It\u2019s a mind numbing, and amateurishly directed horror outing that has really pretty special effects, and a really pretty main star. And nothing else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cNothing Left to Fear\u201d is the prime example of a horror movie that has nothing to offer, and tries to cover it up with fancy special effects and clunky metaphor. The problem is that even those gimmicks don\u2019t work to conceal what is an amateur, tedious, and pointless remake of \u201cThe Wicker Man\u201d where another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[276,302,477,706,793,874,1008,1087],"class_list":["post-18581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-demons","tag-drama","tag-horror","tag-n","tag-possession","tag-romance","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18583,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18581\/revisions\/18583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}