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| Also known as | MTV's Fear |
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| Opening theme | "Voodoo" by Godsmack |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
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| Running time | 43 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | MTV |
| Release | September 21, 2000 – April 28, 2002[1] |
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Fear (promoted as MTV's Fear) is an American paranormal reality television series that originally aired from 2000 to 2002 on MTV and spawned the genre. The program follows a group of five or more contestants who are left at an allegedly haunted location and led on a series of dares over two nights to explore the location and determine whether it is haunted. The show was created by Martin Kunert and Eric Manes, who were inspired by the 1973 horror film The Legend of Hell House. The pilot episode was co-executive produced and directed by George Verschoor. The series aired the first two episodes in a pilot run, which received outstanding reviews, and a full season was ordered.[citation needed] After eight more episodes, another season was ordered. The second season ended after only six aired episodes. The series was cancelled not because of a lack of interest (the show was the second most popular on MTV at the time of its cancellation) but because of the high cost of producing each episode.[citation needed] A DVD, MTV's Inside Fear, was released on November 6, 2001.[2]
Fear was named #6 on Entertainment Weekly's "15 Taboo-Breaking TV Moments".[3]
- ^ Owen, Rob (21 September 2000). "Tuned In: Reality TV gets eerie on MTV's new 'Fear'". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ Fear Intro[dead link]
- ^ "Entertainment Weekly's "15 Taboo-Breaking TV Moments"". Archived from the original on 2017-09-05. Retrieved 2017-07-19.