Fear X

John Turturro works as a security guard in a Wisconsin shopping mall. When his wife is shot dead in the car park, an apparently motiveless crime, he becomes obsessed with finding the killer, tracking down every scrap of evidence and combing through the CCTV tapes. As he learns more about her life, so he uncovers uncomfortable truths in Nicolas Refn’s taut psychological thriller, from his script co-written by Hubert Selby Jnr., When Harry’s wife is killed in what appears to be an accident at the shopping mall where he works as a security guard, he begins to obsessively comb hours of CCTV footage looking for clues to the killer he believes murdered his wife. Harry thinks he’s found his man – but has he become so engrossed in his task that he can no longer trust his own judgement?, When his wife is murdered at the shopping mall where he works, a security guard becomes unhinged as he obsessively searches for her killer. John Turturro stars in this riveting psychological thriller. Deborah Kara Unger, Stephen McIntyre, William Allen Young. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn., For his third (and first English-language) feature, Danish writer/director Nicolas Winding Refn collaborated with celebrated American author Hubert Selby Jr. (Last Exit to Brooklyn, Requiem for a Dream). John Turturro stars in the paranoid thriller as Harry, a Wisconsin mall security guard whose wife is murdered in a seemingly random double homicide at the mall. Harry is understandably obsessed with the crime, endlessly watching surveillance tapes in an effort to find the killer. He has a vision of his wife leading him into the house next door and decides to investigate. He breaks in and finds a photo of a woman standing in front of a Montana diner. Harry drives to Montana to track her down; she turns out to be Kate (Deborah Kara Unger), the wife of Peter (James Remar), the local sheriff, who is involved with a clandestine police organization. When Peter finds out that Harry has come into town asking questions about his wife, he decides to take action to protect his family. He agrees to meet Harry at his hotel. Fear X was shot by Stanley Kubrick collaborator Larry Smith. Brian Eno contributed to the score.