The Face of Fear is a 1990 American thriller television film directed by Farhad Mann and starring Pam Dawber and Lee Horsley.

During a snowstorm, a killer traps a former mountain climber who has psychic powers and his fiancee in a New York skyscraper office building.

Dawson had chosen to film The Face of Fear as it was different from the roles she was typically offered at the time, which she described as "the nice girl or the mom".

"[7] Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a C−, calling it "bland" and "mediocre", saying "a psychic mountain-climber" has "Koontz stretch(es) the limits of credibility", that the "murders are more graphic than anything I’ve seen on TV recently" but that the "constraints of prime-time don’t allow this movie to become truly unsettling.

"[8] On the other hand, Empire, who gave it three stars, called it "a gripping TV time-waster", saying it took "the most hackneyed of TV movie premises — a psychic is pursued by the serial killer whose crimes he has been mentally witnessing — and a few leftover bits of the plot of Die Hard" and that it was "surprisingly, well, good" and that "the clichéd characters are given a touch more depth than usual, and there are neat, non-stereotyped supporting performances from cop Bob Balaban and smarmy journalist William Sadler".