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3	''A Fantastic Fear of Everything'' is a 2012 British horror-comedy film, directed by [[Music/KulaShaker Crispian Mills]] and Chris Hopewell, and starring Creator/SimonPegg.
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5	It follows Jack, a writer who has developed a crippling fear of being murdered while trying to write ''Decades of Death'', a television serial about Victorian Era serial killers. After being invited to meet Harvey Humphries, a BBC head of scripts interested in his teleplays, Jack must face the world and another crippling fear of his, the laundrette.
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7	Heavily inspired by Victorian GothicHorror, this low budget film is borderline surreal in parts, even featuring a 3 minute stop motion sequence at one point.
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10	!This film contains examples of:
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12	* LoserProtagonist: Jack is a coward who's afraid of everything.
13	* LoveAtFirstSight: Jack falls in love with Sangeet as soon as she walks into the laundrette.
14	* MissingMom: Jack was abandoned by his mother as young boy, [[spoiler:in a laundrette, which explains his irrational fear of them. In fact, it turns out to be the very launderette that he has to visit in the present day.]]
15	* NervousWreck: Jack begins as one of these, and gradually overcomes his fears over the course of the film.
16	* TheParanoiac: Jack's paranoia reaches such a point that he's afraid to answer the phone or open the front door.
17	* SerialKiller: Jack spends his time studying these people.
18	* TalkingToThemself: Jack does this often, either trying to reassure himself, or convincing himself that he is indeed about to be murdered.
19	* TroubledFetalPosition: When he calls his shrink, Dr Friedkin, about having to face the laundrette, Jack is in this postion.
20	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Jack considers going to the laundrette to be a very last resort, but when he finds he has no clean clothes for his meeting with Harvey Humphries, it becomes his only option.

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