[1] The film set in the city center of Helsinki in the late 1980s summer, where everything starts from the small fears of everyday life, moving straight towards an area distorted by the terror.

[1] Marja Sauri, who lives in Helsinki at the end of the 1980s, is going to the store to replace defective garden shears with new ones.

Within a day, Marja begins to see strange delusions about the same woman she encountered earlier.

However, Poussu also found flaws in the film: “Still, Shear Fear remain just an exercise.

Its realistic and fantastic ingredients don’t always articulate.”[2] In the opinion of Pertti Avola of Helsingin Sanomat, the film was “a controlled and safe job in all respects.