So it’s impressive that In Fear manages to put its leads in a believably helpless situation in spite of it all. Tom (Iain De Caestecker) and Lucy (Alice Englert), a young almost-couple who met a couple of weeks ago, are on their way to a music festival together. As a romantic surprise, Tom books a hotel room for their first night, but the hotel turns out to be a little off the beaten track, and despite using the car’s built-in GPS and checking the map Tom had printed off the hotel website, they soon find themselves driving in circles. The result is pretty frightening, though maybe “stressful” is a more accurate description. It’s anxiety-inducing. There’s an obvious comparison to be drawn with The Blair Witch Project, not just because of the basic plot elements of young people getting lost in the woods, but also because both films coax believably terrified performances from their actors by not giving them the full script, and not telling them what’s about to happen to them out in the dark. Those of you who suffer from motion sickness will be glad to hear that this isn’t a found footage movie, though there is some shaky cam and a lot of tight, tight, tense close-ups on people’s faces. It’s almost entirely a two-hander, shot claustrophobically inside a car, and the actors do a good job of conveying their terror. There’s not a lot of violence or gore, but what there is is strikingly effective, and there’s at least one guaranteed shudder packed in. So it’s not a masterpiece. But it is a very striking exercise in tension, and a pretty decent showcase for Lovering’s talents. In Fear is out on the 15th November in UK cinemas.