# Fear X (2003)

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**Runtime**: 91 min
**Genres**: Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: Nicolas Winding Refn
**Written by**: Nicolas Winding Refn, Hubert Selby Jr.
**Starring**: John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger, Stephen Eric McIntyre, William Allen Young, Gene Davis, Mark Houghton

> *The Past Can Never Be Rewound.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Empty midwestern airport. Fluorescent hum.
A photograph of a woman, fading. Security guard Harry obsesses over closed-circuit footage, searching for meaning in his wife’s unsolved murder. His investigation leads toward stranger, more dangerous surveillance.
Refn's pre-Bronson palette is not for all.

**Mood tags**: cerebral, dread, paranoid, slow-burn

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