In his debut feature, Benjamín Naishtat slowly moves from one provocative scene to the next, as he builds a psychological thriller pulled taut by the unseen enemy of social anxiety. A group of loosely connected people feels the mounting tensions of mundane occurrences—a faulty house alarm, electrical blackouts, a hole in a fence, and man who simply starts acting strange in a fast food restaurant for no discernable reason. Mining human curiosity but also our increasing disconnect with our neighbors and friends, History of Fear is a disquieting yet visually mesmerizing drama.
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