Acclaimed filmmaker Charlie Lyne’s new feature film Fear Itself, which is constructed entirely from existing horror films, will be released exclusively on BBC iPlayer on 18 October.
Fear Itself takes viewers on a journey through fear and cinema, and asks whether horror movies know us better than we know ourselves. Encouraging viewers to interrogate a diverse range of images and sounds sampled from 100 years of cinema, Fear Itself informs and unnerves in equal measure, changing the way you watch horror movies for good.
Director Charlie Lyne says: “I got about 20 minutes into the first feature-length commission from BBC iPlayer, Adam Curtis’s Bitter Lake, before I started fidgeting with excitement about what an incredible platform it had become for weird and wonderful art - art that wouldn’t quite fit anywhere else. About a month later I somehow found myself beginning work on Fear Itself, the second feature-length commission from BBC iPlayer. No pressure then.
"The last six months have been a whirlwind of experimentation, discovery and occasional terror, attempting to make a film that both evokes and scrutinises the effects of horror cinema at the same time. I’m thrilled (and more than a little anxious) to be releasing the film into the wilds of the internet, where it can finally be scrutinised in its own right.”
The film is narrated by Amy E. Watson, an actor living in Glasgow and born in Canada. She grew up watching horror films and has worked with Charlie on shaping the character of the narrator.
Director’s biography
Charlie Lyne is a filmmaker and film critic living in London. His first film, Beyond Clueless, premiered at SXSW and was released in cinemas earlier this year. His second, Fear Itself, premieres on BBC iPlayer on 18 October. His third is in development.
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