CuddleBunny909 Basically the movie is about a woman that's new in town on a job offer, that turns out to be stripping. She is basically left with no choice, but to strip for cash so she could get back home. In the midst of this, there is a killer on the loose who thinks it fun to kidnap then hunt women down like animals.The plot kind of reminded me of 'Surviving the Game'. It was interesting enough to keep me occupied and entertained for a while. At the beginning, it tries to have you sympathize for the heroine, but as the movie goes on, you're just cringing at the many choices she makes or doesn't make. If you're looking for a low-budget film with bad-acting, but an interesting enough plot to keep you alert, this one is for you.

Roger Frederick A guy captures and hunts down prostitutes. How did this concept not get made in the 70s? Maybe because a very similar event actually happened in the 70s, but still surprising.Nevertheless, you're given this concept, and you naturally expect exploitation trash. It's actually way better than that, so maybe gets a higher score than it deserves just for so completely clearing the admittedly low hurdle of my expectations.--Minor spoilers-- There were some things that didn't make much sense. The woman is frightened and angry and confused, but still speaking English for the first day or two of her ordeal. Suddenly she's found by a hunting family, and she understandably freaks out, but then, even when it's clear they're trying to help her, she's unable to speak and tell them what's been going on. Really? Maybe this complete retreat into an animal nature would be easier to swallow if it was, like, months, up in the mountains, eating bugs and running from shadows.The killer seems like a pretty friendly guy, but everything that happens to him in this movie, he's got coming to him, and then some. Not very sporting of him to not leave the women shoes, at least. But I guess he really can't afford for any of them to get away.The ending was kind of amusing, and almost turned this whole thing into the 70s-style exploitation garbage I was expecting.

MBunge Have you ever read or heard about the story "The World's Most Dangerous Game"? Well, Naked Fear could have been titled "The World's Most Dangerous Naked Game". And when it focuses on the nudity, it's trashy, vulgar fun. When the clothes go on, however, it's an amateurish disaster.The main story involves a pretty redhead named Diana Kelper (Danielle De Luca) who winds up stuck as a stripper in a New Mexico town, the victim of a half assed white slavery scam. Diana eventually winds up kidnapped by a psycho who drops her, buck naked, in the middle of the New Mexico wilderness so he can hunt her like she's a deer with boobs. While that's going on, there's also this other story about a new sheriff's deputy named Dwight Terry (Arron Shiver) who never really does anything important in the movie. There's something about him butting heads with the local sheriff (Joe Mantegna) and something about Dwight losing his job in California because he tried to arrest the local mayor for drunk driving and something about Dwight looking for redemption, but…again, he never really does anything important in the movie. It's like some producer told screenwriter Christine Vasquez that her script needed a male lead, so she wrote one it without bothering to give him anything to do.When Danielle De Luca is totally nude and being chased by the psycho for about a half hour in the middle of this film, Naked Fear does generate some cheap, prurient interest. The combination of De Luca's beautiful body and the utter vulnerability of her character has an almost irresistible appeal. As soon as Diana finds an old shirt in the woods and puts it on, that appeal disappears. What's left behind is a ponderous and ugly glop of bad plotting, terrible dialog, awful acting and bizarrely horrible editing.The evidence that director Thom Eberhardt has no idea what he's doing is all over this movie. Exhibit A would be the casting of swarthy Italian-American Joe Mantegna as a good ol' boy sheriff. Mantegna is a very good actor, but he's probably given better performances on the toilet while having a particularly difficult bowel movement than he gives in Naked Fear. If you didn't know better, you'd think Mantegna got the role because he's a bookie one of the producers owed money to. He's so out of place, Nathan Lane would be more believable playing a dirt farming redneck from rural Alabama.Exhibit B in Eberhardt's incompetence would be the way shots of New Mexico scenery and stuffed animal heads mounted on a wall just pop up as the film goes along. It's not even like the images serve as some sort of segue in the story. They simply show up and then are gone, like a form of visual Tourette's Syndrome.Naked Fear is a completely crappy movie that manages, by going right at the lowest common denominators of fear and lust, to actually hold your attention for a bit. The second it tries to be anything more than crude and exploitative, the barrage of pathetic acting, imbecilic writing and just plain odd direction makes it impossible to sit through. If you want to see a lot of female nudity but have a moral objection to pornography, this film was made for you. It doesn't have near enough to offer to the rest of us.

imagesoft The plot was expected and until the actual center piece abduction takes place its normal horror movie fair. Then from the title(and cover)you would expect a naked or half naked cutie running around doing stupid stuff until she is finally caught an snuffed out, but despite the long interlude of nudity while running. you actually focus on the story and get behind the protagonist and want her to win. As a normal red blooded male, I really enjoy in a film that has the obvious eye candy of a pretty girl nude, when it makes sense, and doesn't stand in the way of the plot, and is not pornographic. I for one haven't seen that type of appeal sense the emerald forest. I thought the very end like the beginning was a bit contrived and hooky, but neither end stopped this from being a very watchable and enjoyable film. My Hat is off to the cast and crew of this very good budget sleeper.