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Naja
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06-28-2003

Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 5:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
I have no idea how good or bad this show will be, but I know there are a few of you out there that enjoy horror shows as much as I do :-).

Premiere date:
Wed, Jan 7, on CW channel

Info and preview video
http://www.cwtv.com/shows/13-fear-is-real

Thirteen people compete to "stay alive" as they face their deepest fears in an all-out elimination competition and scare-fest. Pitted against each other in situations straight from the horror movies, the 13 will face shocking surprises, psychological scares and lots of "beware of the dark" moments, all designed by a "mastermind" of terror.

Nerovh
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06-11-2005

Wednesday, January 07, 2009 - 6:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nerovh a private message Print Post    
Can't decide if I like this show yet. I'd like it better if that girl Leah would calm herself down a little bit.

Did anybody else even watch this?

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, January 07, 2009 - 7:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I just saw your post. I set it to record at 11:00.

Lake_gal
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06-09-2004

Wednesday, January 07, 2009 - 9:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lake_gal a private message Print Post    
I watched it. They are really playing on the Unknown being scary. And they made a point of not letting us know who has the little box with the power.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, January 07, 2009 - 9:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I watched it. It's a rather strange combination of Fear Factor and Survivor with a "Host" patterned after Jigsaw (the character in the movie series "The Saw"). The producers obviously watched the Saw series of films. The contestants certainly appeared scared and they played up the isolation aspect of it but I have to wonder how scared you could get knowing there are a bunch of cameras and production people around. The whole thing was kind of an odd combination of silly, weird and creepy.

Jodie75
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08-26-2004

Wednesday, January 07, 2009 - 9:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jodie75 a private message Print Post    
I watched it. I'm not sure how long I'll stay with it.

I very much took offense in the beginning when Leah was saying something along the lines of hating to be left alone in the dark and acting all dramatic and scared (with a camera held by a cameraman right in front of her)...because she was in Louisiana, a place where terrible suffering and tragedy had recently occurred, and she's participating in a silly reality show for money where they KNOW they're really never alone.

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Wednesday, January 07, 2009 - 11:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
Jimmer, you expressed most of everything I was thinking! I wasn't thinking of Saw, probably because I never watched any of those shows. LOL It reminded me of "The Blair Witch Project" in the way it was filmed, etc. It's weird, corny, creepy, I would be scared, but there's camera people right there so how much of this is just "acting scared?"!!! No matter if they were acting scared, I'd have a panic attack being put in one of those boxes and put underground.

The cabin with the probably fake blood, pentagrams and all that kind of thing did give me the creeps. It just gives me the feeling of evil and I wouldn't want to be around it. Even the amount of the prize gives me the creeps - $66,666. I hate all those satanic references.

And all and out "horror" production with the fake blood, parts, etc., wouldn't scare me on a set though.

Jodie75
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08-26-2004

Thursday, January 08, 2009 - 12:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jodie75 a private message Print Post    
I wanted to add to my above post because I left out the important part that made me annoyed with Leah: she followed up with, "...this is like the worst thing that could happen."

Naja
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06-28-2003

Thursday, January 08, 2009 - 7:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
I thought it was pretty dreadful, but since it only lasts 8 episodes, I'll probably watch the whole thing. I also was thinking of Jigsaw, Jimmer. Except his name is "Mastermind"...LOL

Pretty soon it will be up against American Idol every week and some other popular show, but the eps are rerun on Fridays.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Thursday, January 08, 2009 - 7:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
I got the sense of bad acting several times during the first episode. Like everyone has already said, how can they be so scared with all the cameras around? And that one girl screaming and sobbing for her partner (when they were tied to the chairs). She acted like she'd been tied up and tortured for days.

Nerovh
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06-11-2005

Thursday, January 08, 2009 - 8:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nerovh a private message Print Post    
Ok, I decided that I would be more upset about trying to pee in the woods with a bunch of people watching and filming me than I would be scared of somebody coming to get me while I was trying to pee in the woods with a bunch of people watching and filming me. Did that make sense?

Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

Thursday, January 08, 2009 - 9:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cablejockey a private message Print Post    
I felt sorry for that girl who was trying to 'go to the bathroom' outside somewhere. All these things started scaring her,I dont think she ever made it to the facilities.
It was like they were trying to throw everything horror into this show all at once. It was confusing at times. At the end i felt sorry for those 2 girls who were buried alive. I wanted to see how the loser got out of there but we didnt see. I'll probably be watching next week.

Angelicfairies2
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07-19-2004

Thursday, January 08, 2009 - 9:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Angelicfairies2 a private message Print Post    
I watched and wont watch again lol

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Thursday, January 08, 2009 - 10:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Nerovh, precisely! I watched about a quarter of it and gave up. There's no danger... I can't believe they're that scared.

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Thursday, January 08, 2009 - 10:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
i got confused about the death box. i thought they had to use it at the end of the episode. can anyone clarify? thanks

Jodie75
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08-26-2004

Thursday, January 08, 2009 - 2:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jodie75 a private message Print Post    
KL, anyone who could get the death box would be given the power to kill off three other contestants. We weren't (I don't think) given any more information how this would be done, and they never said they had a time limit. As the mohawk guy said, he thought it would sit there for at least a couple of days before someone took it.

I thought that was ridiculous that the combo was 013, geez! The Asian girl got that right after trying 666. They should have left clues spread out over the next few days that would have given them a more difficult combination. Like come up with a legend of a someone who died locally and haunts the area, and leave clues to that "ghost"'s dob or dod.

The creators of this show had NO imagination! Just like everyone said, it's based on Jigsaw with Blair Witch Project background.

Nervoh, lol, I was thinking about the same thing. I'd be more concerned about my privacy away from cameras! And wasn't that same girl freaking and jumping and clutching at people earlier in the night? So she justs gets up and casually says, "I gotta go to the bathroom", and goes out by herself??

I have to admit that the burying alive thing would not be something I could do. I have both fear of being buried alive and I'm claustrophobic.

Zgoodgirl
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08-22-2003

Monday, January 12, 2009 - 6:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zgoodgirl a private message Print Post    
I set it to record the season, and watched the first episode.

I deleted the season off of the DVR. Didn't like it at all.

Just_gail
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08-25-2007

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 9:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Just_gail a private message Print Post    
It's kind of interesting to see how people scare themselves. There's nothing there to be afraid of really. It's all in their heads.

Nerovh
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06-11-2005

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 6:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nerovh a private message Print Post    
Ok, I couldn't even get through this whole episode. I switched over to the Lost rerun. If this show is up againsto the new Lost season, that's probably gonna be it for me.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 6:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
It's rerun on Fridays, and even with 2 dvr's, that's only way I could continue watching it. There's too much going on during Wednesday primetime. So I won't see tonight's ep until Friday.

Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

Thursday, January 15, 2009 - 9:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cablejockey a private message Print Post    
Watching last night, I wondered about the boat challenge. They made it look like there were alligators in that water--but I cant see TPTB putting contestants in jeopardy like that. In fact from the camera shots, it looked as if the camera crew were right beside them in their own boat!
It occurred to me that you never see them eating. i assume they are being fed, They have elctricity and I saw a shower of some sort last week.
The rats in the execution looked funny. Did anyone notice that in some shots the animals looked asleep or stuffed?
I wish the group would be moved to another place--somewhere bigger. In spite of it all, I'll be watching next week.

Biginjapan
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07-23-2005

Thursday, January 15, 2009 - 4:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biginjapan a private message Print Post    
I would always volunteer to stay at the cabin.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Cablejockey, I noticed the same thing about the rats in the head cage. In some shots they were moving and real, and other shots they were stuffed and still. Notice the camera never stayed on one shot long enough to give it a good look?

After this second show, I'm not sure I can bring myself to watch it any longer unless it's the only thing left sitting there on the dvr. It's so bad.

Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 1:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cablejockey a private message Print Post    
I agree, its bad, but its a good idea for a show and I am hoping it will get better--I know...

Sanfranjoshfan
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09-17-2000

Friday, January 23, 2009 - 7:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sanfranjoshfan a private message Print Post    
I believe tonight is a new episode....apparently, it moved to Fridays.

http://www.cwtv.com/shows/13-fear-is-real

Also, my TIVO says tonight's episode is #104, so that means it's new. The one that aired a couple of days ago was #103.

Also, I think they may have shown us the name of the "killer" (like they do in The Mole) via a visual clue:

Below is a SPOILER (but only IF I correctly saw what I believe was an intentional clue):

Spoiler
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When a player is on screen talking, they show his or her name in red-orange letters at the bottom left of the screen. When they showed the vague shape of the "killer" speaking with his or her voice masked by some kind of synthesizer....it looked like the "name" at the bottom left of the screen was a jumble of ALL their names and the letters were "jumpy"....there is a clue there!

In the scene where the "killer" is talking to the camera, I went through it frame by frame and it appeared to me that one particular named sort of "peeked out" of the jumble of names. It rises part way up and "peeks out" of the top of the jumble of names, and then it "peeks out" again from the bottom.

You can ONLY see it if you go FRAME BY FRAME. It's a single name that rises up just enough so you can see the TOPS of the letters that spell out the name, and then it drops down out of the jumble of names just enough so you can make out the bottoms of the letters. Those letters spell out the name "Adam"!