(There may be Spoilers) Going over dozens of surveillance video tapes security guard Harry Cain, John Torturro, is not only determined to find his wife's Clair, Jacqueline Ramel, killer but to find out why she was killed. Clair murdered along with a DEA agent at the shopping mall that Harry worked at has him feeling responsible for not being in the mall parking lot to save Clair who was waiting to give him a ride back home. Harry seems to be suffering from some kind of psychosis seeing Clair in and out of the house. Even feeling that she's somehow communicating with him from the other side trying to steer Harry to the man who murdered her.
Called into the local police station Harry is told that they have a photo of the man who murdered his wife and even a tape of her being murdered and if he can identify the person. The photo taken from a grainy video tape is so bad that Harry couldn't make out who the person is and with that it seemed as if the police dropped the case of his murdered wife. The film "Fear X" then goes into never-never land and never comes back to the real world but only the fantasy world that's between Harry's ears. For some strange reason Harry is fixated with the house across the street from him and feels that if has a clue to Clair's murder. Going inside the house Harry finds it empty but spots a strip of developed film which he takes to the shopping malls one hour photo lab to get printed.
Finding that the people in the photo are in the Steve & Nikie's restaurant outside of Morriston Montana Harry quits his job at the Wisconsin mall and travels to Montana to find out just who those people are! It's never explained at all why Harry is so fascinated with the people on the photo or what the empty house across the street has to do with his wife's murder.
Harry like a walking zombie drives all the way to the Steve & Nikie's diner where the photo was taken and is told by a cop who happened to be there that it's a picture of Kate and young son Quinn Northtrop, Deborah Kara Unger & Brock MacGregor. Harry is also told that Kates husband Peter, James Remar, is a cop on the Morriston police force. All this is so surreal that you almost expect to see Harry wake up and find out it's all a dream.
Earlier we see Harry check into a local hotel and insisting to have room 305? What was the significance of that number to Harry and why was Harry so insistent to have that room? it's never explained. Peter finding out that Harry Cain is looking for him instinctively knows that it's because of his murdered wife Clair and goes to his boss, the most whacked out person in the film after Harry. Were told, by the the chief, that Peter is part of some secret hit team who are out to knock off corrupt enforcement agents. Harry's wife was just an innocent victim who was at the scene where a crooked DEA agent was executed by Peter.
The movie now spins completely out of control with Harry's mind conjuring up all kinds of weird images and hallucinations that in some cases look like nuclear explosions! It's until he's confronted by Peter in the hotel that he's staying in where he gets to lowdown to what's been happening to him all throughout the movie together with a bullet in his chest.
It takes everything out of you to try to figure out just what "Fear X" is all about and what exactly it's trying to tell you. It's better not to try to come to any sane or logical conclusion to what Harry has to do, or what they have to do with him, with a hit squad of lawmen out to do in corrupt cops all over the country.
Were also never told what happened to Peter after his meeting with Harry at the hotel and why was a hooker, Amanda Ooms, sent up to Harry's room? Was she a spy for the police to find out what Harry was up to? Why did Harry give the cop at the diner his wrong hotel room number, changing it to 503 from 305, and later that turned out to be the very room number that Peter booked at the same hotel?
The movie ended as if the director began to realize just how ridicules it was. We see Harry, now completely recovered from his gun shot wound,throwing away all his surveillance photos of his wife's killer and driving off into the sunset. Hoping that he'll forget that he's ever been in the movie "Fear X' like those of us watching it wish we never saw it.
Called into the local police station Harry is told that they have a photo of the man who murdered his wife and even a tape of her being murdered and if he can identify the person. The photo taken from a grainy video tape is so bad that Harry couldn't make out who the person is and with that it seemed as if the police dropped the case of his murdered wife. The film "Fear X" then goes into never-never land and never comes back to the real world but only the fantasy world that's between Harry's ears. For some strange reason Harry is fixated with the house across the street from him and feels that if has a clue to Clair's murder. Going inside the house Harry finds it empty but spots a strip of developed film which he takes to the shopping malls one hour photo lab to get printed.
Finding that the people in the photo are in the Steve & Nikie's restaurant outside of Morriston Montana Harry quits his job at the Wisconsin mall and travels to Montana to find out just who those people are! It's never explained at all why Harry is so fascinated with the people on the photo or what the empty house across the street has to do with his wife's murder.
Harry like a walking zombie drives all the way to the Steve & Nikie's diner where the photo was taken and is told by a cop who happened to be there that it's a picture of Kate and young son Quinn Northtrop, Deborah Kara Unger & Brock MacGregor. Harry is also told that Kates husband Peter, James Remar, is a cop on the Morriston police force. All this is so surreal that you almost expect to see Harry wake up and find out it's all a dream.
Earlier we see Harry check into a local hotel and insisting to have room 305? What was the significance of that number to Harry and why was Harry so insistent to have that room? it's never explained. Peter finding out that Harry Cain is looking for him instinctively knows that it's because of his murdered wife Clair and goes to his boss, the most whacked out person in the film after Harry. Were told, by the the chief, that Peter is part of some secret hit team who are out to knock off corrupt enforcement agents. Harry's wife was just an innocent victim who was at the scene where a crooked DEA agent was executed by Peter.
The movie now spins completely out of control with Harry's mind conjuring up all kinds of weird images and hallucinations that in some cases look like nuclear explosions! It's until he's confronted by Peter in the hotel that he's staying in where he gets to lowdown to what's been happening to him all throughout the movie together with a bullet in his chest.
It takes everything out of you to try to figure out just what "Fear X" is all about and what exactly it's trying to tell you. It's better not to try to come to any sane or logical conclusion to what Harry has to do, or what they have to do with him, with a hit squad of lawmen out to do in corrupt cops all over the country.
Were also never told what happened to Peter after his meeting with Harry at the hotel and why was a hooker, Amanda Ooms, sent up to Harry's room? Was she a spy for the police to find out what Harry was up to? Why did Harry give the cop at the diner his wrong hotel room number, changing it to 503 from 305, and later that turned out to be the very room number that Peter booked at the same hotel?
The movie ended as if the director began to realize just how ridicules it was. We see Harry, now completely recovered from his gun shot wound,throwing away all his surveillance photos of his wife's killer and driving off into the sunset. Hoping that he'll forget that he's ever been in the movie "Fear X' like those of us watching it wish we never saw it.