Fear is a 1990 American thriller/horror/suspense film. It is directed by Rockne S. O'Bannon and stars Ally Sheedy, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Michael O'Keefe, Lauren Hutton, Keone Young, Stan Shaw, Dean Goodman, Don Hood and Jonathan Prince. Sheedy plays a psychic police consultant who discovers that the latest serial killer she is helping police track is also a psychic, one who takes sadistic pleasure in making her share in the fear his victims experience.
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Cayce Bridges is a psychic gifted in a form of psychometry, which she plies to kickstart her career as a novelist by serving as a consultant on homicide investigations, mentally linking with murderers in order to provide police with clues to their identities and whereabouts, and then writing nonfiction books about these experiences. The books make Cayce a minor celebrity with a glowing public image, but her manager and friend Jessica informs her that publishers are only interested in more books about her psychic investigations, even though Cayce is traumatized by mind linking with killers and wants out. Jessica can get her a deal for two novels, but only if she tackles one last case.
Cayce consults for Detectives Webber and Wu as they pursue the elusive "Shadow Man", whose calling card is the words "Fear me" written in blood. By tracing a victim's memories, she learns that the Shadow Man's motivation is a sadistic pleasure in making people afraid; he kills each victim with their greatest fear. At a dinner party hosted by Jessica, Cayce is telepathically contacted by the Shadow Man. He tells her he is glad to have found a fellow psychic who he can share his headspace with and mentally takes her along on his kill. Cayce tries to break contact and cannot, making her realize that the Shadow Man is much more practiced in his abilities than she is.
