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Fear Itself Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2008 - 2009
Episode 1
The Sacrifice
Thu, Jun 5, 200844 mins
Four criminals are on the way to a hospital when their suburban breaks down. Trying to keep their comrade alive, they hike through the snow and stumble upon a fort. The fort's inhabitants, a trio of beautiful sisters, take them in and care for them. However, things are not all they seem to be in the fort once the lights go out. Now in a fight for all their lives, the quartet must find a way to escape alive before they become a sacrifice to a creature more terrifying than they could ever realize.
Episode 2
Spooked
Thu, Jun 12, 200844 mins
Harry Seigal is a private investigator who, several years earlier, was dismissed from the police force after accidentally killing a suspect during interrogation. Now he's taken on a case for a woman whose husband she suspects is cheating on her. After setting up in a house across from his target, he begins observation. However, Seigal is about to discover is that his past is coming back to haunt him.
Episode 3
Family Man
Thu, Jun 19, 200842 mins
Dennis Mahoney is an All-American dad: successful, loving, and all-around good guy. All that changes after a car accident leaves him hanging between life and death. He finds his way back to life... only to wake up in the body of a serial killer named Richard Brautigan, a.k.a. "The Family Man Killer." Even worse is that Brautigan is now in Mahoney's body. With time running out, Dennis must find a way to save his family from Brautigan's murderous intent before he is executed in Brautigan's place.
Episode 4
In Sickness and in Health
Thu, Jun 26, 200843 mins
A person's wedding should be the happiest event in their life. Not so for one bride who receives a note shortly before the wedding saying the person she is marrying is a serial killer. With the wedding in full swing, she must make a choice to believe the note or to pass it off as a stupid prank. But when she notices her groom acting rather odd, she wonders if there is truth behind the note's mortifying words.
Episode 5
Eater
Thu, Jul 3, 200841 mins
Officer Bannerman is assigned to watch after the police station with two other officers during the night. Things go routinely until a person is brought into holding, who is supposedly responsible for over thirty "Silence of the Lambs"-style killings. Now, as things go from odd to frightening, Bannerman must determine just who is who because this Cajun killer may be more than just a mere cannibal.
Episode 6
New Year's Day
Thu, Jul 17, 200842 mins
Helen wakes up early New Years morning to discover a major disaster has happened. She is hung over and does not really remember the events of the night before. She soon finds out that most of the population has become zombies. As she tries to find her way to her boyfriend's house, encountering zombies along the way, she gradually pieces the events of the night before.
Episode 7
Community
Thu, Jul 24, 200842 mins
Bobby (Brandon Routh) and Tracy (Shiri Appleby) believe they have found the perfect place to raise a family in the secured and closed community ran by Candace (Barbara Tyson). Not long after they moved in, Bobby starts to feel uneasy by the unusual and forced influence of the neighbors on his family life. And he will find out that perfection is unreachable... No matter how hard you seek for it!
Episode 8
Skin and Bones
Thu, Jul 31, 200842 mins
Elena Edlund, her sons Derek and Tim and her brother-in-law and lover Rowdy Edlund are worried about the fate of the rancher Grady Edlund, who has disappeared in the mountains for several days. Out of the blue, Grady returns skinny and starved. The Indian Eddie Bear tells the story of the flesh-eater Wendigo and soon the family learns that Grady was possessed by the demon.
Episode 9
Something with Bite
41 mins
The veterinarian Wilbur Orwell is a family man happily married with Patty and they have a son. When a huge animal is brought to the clinic of Wilbur hit by a car, he is bitten by the animal that dies. On the next morning, an old couple asks for the body of the animal and Wilbur delivers to them. Soon he learns that the animal was a werewolf and Wilbur turns into one. Meanwhile one employee of Wilbur's clinic is murdered and Wilbur believes he is responsible for the death. He visits the old couple and learns that the werewolf would never do anything that he would not do as a human. When his assistant Mikayla is also attacked and he becomes the prime suspect of a police detective. Who might be attacking people on the streets?
Episode 10
Chance
41 mins
Chance Miller is a loser with a lousy job, married with Jackie and owing money to a loan shark and to his landlord. One day, Chance brings an ancient vase to the antique shop owned by Walter Markham expecting to sell it for US$ 45,000.00 but Walter offers only US$ 5,000.00. Walter tells that Chance has misunderstood their conversation in a party and shows an ancient mirror to him. Chance stares at his image and has an argument with Walter, killing him. Soon Chance meets his doppelganger in the beginning of a tragic night.
Episode 11
The Spirit Box
42 mins
The teenager Shelby Johnson is the daughter of Officer Dan Johnson and best friend of her schoolmate Becca. Halloween night, Becca proposes to Shelby to build a ouija board and do a séance. Their former friend Emily D'Angelo, who committed suicide in a lake, makes contact and she tells that she was murdered but does not give the name of the killer. The two girls investigate the case leaving Shelby's father Officer Dan Johnson upset. Soon they find a suspect and Shelby has a great surprise. "The Spirit Box" is maybe the best episode so far of Fear Itself, with a cast with Martin Donovan, Anna Kendrick and Mark Pellegrino. The creepy and tense story has a surprising plot point and a good conclusion. My vote is seven. Title (Brazil): "The Spirit Box"
Episode 12
Echoes
42 mins
Stephan moves to an old house and his girlfriend Karen visits him. Soon he realizes that he has weird visions inside the house and he tells to his psychoanalyst Dr. Wolfram. They discover that Stephan has glimpses from his past life and Dr. Wolfram hypnotizes Stephan to better research. Stephan learns that he was the killer Maxwell in his previous life and Karen was Maxwell's girlfriend Zelda. Dr. Wolfram asks Stephan to move from the house but he prefers to stay mesmerized with his discovery with tragic consequences.
Episode 13
The Circle
41 mins
A best selling author has not written anything since his last book, a few years back. His wife, trying to help him get past this writer's block, invites a few friends to the cabin where they are staying to aid her into this task. But, unknown to her and anybody else, the writer has a dark secret and his past is catching up with them, when a book, loaded with evil witchcraft, is delivered to their doorstep that same night...