The Fear

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Entertainment & Morty LP/Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director............Vincent Robert</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay......Ron Ford</B></div> <div> <B>Music...............Robert O. Ragland</B></div> <div> <B>Producer..........Richard Brandes</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer....Greg H. Sims</B></div> <div> <B>Director of photography....Bernd Heinl</B></div> <div> <B>"Morty" effects by M.M.I.</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects Design by John Carl Buecheler</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Richard........Eddie Bowz</B></div> <div> <B>Ashley.........Heather Medway</B></div> <div> <B>Leslie.........Ann Turkel</B></div> <div> <B>Pete...........Vince Edwards</B></div> <div> <B>Troy...........Darin Heams</B></div> <div> <B>Tanya..........Anna Karin</B></div> <div> <B>Gerald.........Antonio Todd</B></div> <div> <B>Vance..........Leland Hayward</B></div> <div> <B>Mindy..........Monique Mannen</B></div> <div> <B>"Morty"........Erick Weiss</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Arnold.....Wes Craven</B></div> <div> <B>Young Richard..Hunter Bedrosian</B></div> <div> <B>Rose...........Rebecca Baldwin</B></div> <div> <B>Claude.........Greg Littman</B></div> <div> <B>Becky..........Stacy Edwards</B></div> <div> <B>Father.........Daniel Franklin</B></div> <div> <B>Mother.........Lisa Iannini</B></div> <div> <B>Son............Corey Wilson</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Through the woods with a doctoral candidate in psychology Richard and his group of deeply troubled friends/subjects where they alternately terrorize each other or are terrorized by a wooden mannequin named Morty, a concrete manifestation of Richard's guilt at having played a minor role in the death of his mother. A rather scary movie monster is introduced here and executed wonderfully from make-up effects to acting (Eric Weiss). Indeed, this monster would have been a wonderful main character around which to have made a horror movie. Instead, we are regaled with an unending sequence of insights into the flawed characters of the participants. Particularly troublesome is that the viewer forms no attachment with Richard, the main character. The rest of the group are equally damaged goods. We get some satisfaction at the demise of some of the less agreeable characters, but that won't carry things. In addition, the whole campus rapist issue is simply a distraction in a film about an animated childhood playmate. In addition, introducing a two hundred thousand dollar theft as a further justification for knocking off the already thoroughly disagreeable Vance is surely overkill. All this is distracting and leaves the viewer baffled about the point in the film. It is as though the Morty story was deemed indadequate to hold the viewer's interest, and thus a series of side shows were devised to keep us entertained. Oh, Troy's California patois is particularly annoying, and the fact that he is an irritant and a rapist should have sufficed to put him in a poor light. Motto: "There is no devil but fear"</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: In a game, Richard as a child is chased, and runs through the woods and finds a face carved into a tree, just as two shrowded and masked figures dig under a fallen tree. They begin chanting what sounds like "diamond trick". It was a dream of Richard's when he was much younger. He is discussing his thesis in psychology with professor Arnold, and hypothesizes that it is some buried memory.  Richard proposes a woods fear-workshop with other students. His professor offers him a ball with a piece missing and tells him to find the missing piece as homework--still pushing Richard on his . A female coed heads toward her dorm at night, and though she is warned by the security guard, Becky Graham goes it alone. A shrouded figure drops from a tree and she is attacked--the implication from the focus on the genitalia of a nude fountain being she is raped. The next day, our psychology student puts up a flier for his group. The cops are asking Rasta-man Troy about Becky Graham, who was raped last night, the fourth or fifth. His Rasta haired pal had dated her and the implication is he is under suspicion. Rasta's sister Leslie from Oregon and her friend uptight and put-offish Vance Cooper, and two African-Americans are in for the weekend of fear. The participants pile into a van and the weekend begins. Rasta notes that Leslie has aged. Vance implies that Troy isn't actually her brother. Richard owns the cottage the students are visiting. Leslie had been an exec, but is now unemployed. At the cottage, Richard's girlfriend, Ashley, looks at a photo that includes a rather shadowy looking figure in a window. She finds a life size wooden man figure in a roll out bed and her screaming alerts the others. It has a real presence. It had been a mannequin in Richard's uncle's general store. They brought "Morty" to the cottage as a guardian. Woith disturbing honesty, Richard admits that when he was a kid it had been his best friend. Richard announces that Morty will be guardian--he can be trusted with secrets and won't judge. Everyone has to admit to Morty what scares them. Initially too cool, Troy is tricked to admit that he's afraid of bugs. Leslie does seem to resent little brother Troy. She admits that after having been so popular in school, she had to raise troy and now fears getting old. Matt has his one arm wrapped, and has an impressive tattoo on his other arm. He doesn't enter into the game - "bullshit". Ashley doesn't feel comfortable playing either and leaves when Troy mocks her. Blustering middle-aged Uncle Pete shows up in a Santa outfit with his very young girlfriend Tanya Larsen. Tanya admits that based on a near childhood drowning, she hates water. New-age Mindy thinks she has had many lives which ended in falling, she is afraid of heights. Rudy's father is a minister--he is an atheist and brushes off the experiment. Uncle Pete says santa's helper in Holland, black Peter, will punish all the bad little children. The mask of black Peter on the wall looks like the one from Richard's dream. Richard admits he has a fear of commitment based on his poor relationship with his father and the death of his mother--in a trancelike state he begins hearing "diamond trick" and admits he is afraid of Morty- "You scare the shit out of me man". Mindy is an artist. Vance is interested in drawing Mindy, she exposes her breasts but Leslie and Rudy interrupt them angrily. Leslie and Vance complain about each others sexual preferences. Richard and Ashley have sex and are interrupted when Leslie realizes that Morty has been set up at the window at the end of their bed. Richard accuses Troy. The next day, in a session with Mindy, Mindy - with her eyes closesd, compulsively draws a picture of her fear--someone who will be angry at her--perhaps her father. Mindy says something is wrong. Terrified Tanya, pleaing for herself in the third person, is coerced to get into a pool by uncle Pete, but Richard intervenes, blasting Pete fdor knowing nothing about psychology. Tanya overhears and enters the pool of her own volition. laughing with relief until Morty pops up sending her into shock--it looks like another practical joke. Richard cleverly blames Ashley, and she decides she's had it and gives him her ring. Vance comes in and starts molesting Mindy as she bathes and she slaps him, he leaves. They try to track him down, and Morty shows up in his room. The guests insist on knowing Morty's origins. Pete and Richard explain that an Indian had carved Morty and instilled magic into it so that anyone would buy the garments put on him. It appears the magic has taken on a darker side. Things certainly are getting psychological. Troy uses a vulnerability ploy on Ashley, starts to kiss Ashley, but then she decides against it and he tries to force himself on her accusing her of teasing. Pete intervenes. She is all done with Richard for the Morty accusation. They go to a kiddie theme park: a miniature north pole. Vance insults Leslie and is back to chasing Mindy around, but she joins Gerald on the train. Leslie, Troy and and Ashley ride the carousel. Mindy's runaway kiddie train leads her through scary fairy-tale land to what she thinks is Gerald, but she is grabbed from behind and raped. Ashley realizes that the campus rapist is one of them. Vance shows up but when accusatory looks come up, he accuses Leslie "You told them!" and pulls out a gun. Vance and Leslie had apparently embezzled two hundred thousand dollars from Leslie's company, she admits. At the house, Vance finds only a trail of money leading to a box where he is repeatedly bashed on the head by the cover and dragged in by some unknown force. The both van and jeep tires are slashed, so they can't leave. Neither can they find Vance. Tanya and Pete volunteer to walk back to Christmas Village to get a maintanance truck. Ashley deduces that Vance was in Oregon, and couldn't have been the campus rapist. Troy apologizes for his behavior toward Leslie and they engage in some incestuous groping. Troy believed Leslie and Troy had been adopted, but Leslie admits that she is not his sister but his mother. She had hidden it because she had been an unwed teenage mother. Troy wretches on the grounfd outside. Tanya has gone running to get to the village and a phone. She hears voices in the woods calling to her. Back in Santa's village, Pete  arrives at Christmas Village and finds Gerald has been skewered and crucified and mutters "not again". While searching for Troy in the woods, Leslie finds Morty, and suddenly she turns old. Mindy, who is convalescing, appears to be possessed and uncovers that Richard killed his mother. Morty next is animated as Ashley watches. He acts as a puppeer for the possessed Mindy who spells out "matricide" on a felt board. It appears that Troy was the rapist as he attacks Ashley. Richard's flashback reveals that he had told his father about his mother's infidelity that he had discovered, and then his father had killed his mother. His father then placed the guilt on the little boy - "This is your own goddamn fault You tell anybody... and Morty will get you!". It appeared Morty came to life as he transferred his guilt in the doll. Mindy beats Richard until he trips her out the window. Morty rises from Mindy's lifeless body. Ashley manages to throw Troy into a bees nest and he goes crazy enough for her to club him with a stick. Richard insists to Pete that he had hated his mother and wanted to kill her. Ashley explains to Richard that "diametric" means opposite, and that Richard was never responsible for the murder. Richard surprises Pete and sees Pete's tattoo: Pete had been his mother's lover. Pete shouts that black Peter gets bad little boys, and in comes Morty. Pete shoots Morty a couple of times, but pretty soon the gun is in Pete's mouth. Next Morty stumps on after Richard and Ashley. Morty moves pretty well for a woodman. Richard finds the carved tree from his dream just as Morty comes upon him, and then Bedlam breaks out. Richard's largely decomposed mother comes out of the ground and gets a hold of his ankle. Black Peter and young Richard himself hang around to observe the proceedings. Young Richard hands Richard the toy ball the professor had given and Richard in turn bounces it off his mother's head and putting the ball back together puts her back in her grave and likewise sends black peter santa claus and young Richard to whence they came. He hugs his younger self, and it appears everything is resolved--a neatly wrapped up Freudian faery tale. Except that the next thing we know, Morty is off chasing Ashley through the dark woods. He throws Tanya in the swamp, but she doesn't seem to mind. Richard arrives as Morty struggles with Ashley and tells him it's all over, he understands everything now, and that he has to leave. Morty takes his hand, old friends again, and Morty heads off into the swamp. Richard and Ashley reconcile. Denoument. Richard comes to his professor to tell him that he is dropping out. Last scene--a new couple rents the cabin and their kid runs off into the woods and he looses his soccer ball, asking the woodman "Are you a good guy or a bad guy/" until Morty kicks it back to him. </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>