Its plot follows a group of dysfunctional young adults who take a weekend retreat to a remote cabin, where they become threatened by a living wooden mannequin.

Richard's uncle Pete unexpectedly arrives, interrupting the session, with his younger girlfriend, Tanya.

Richard himself admits to Morty that he is afraid of commitment, and cites his mother's death in the cabin as a significant childhood trauma.

Meanwhile, Morty begins to surface inexplicably in different places at the cabin, posed outside windows and in the hot tub.

Gerald goes missing, and the group suspect their troubled acquaintance, Vance, is responsible, as he has made numerous sexual advances toward Mindy; furthermore, Ashley believes Vance could be the unknown rapist who has been sexually assaulting women on campus.

Vance flees back to the cabin with the intention of stealing money he suspects is concealed in the house.

Upon arriving, he discovers the money beneath a floor hatch, but is killed by an unseen assailant and dragged under.

Ashley flees the cabin, and encounters Troy in the woods, who reveals himself to be the campus rapist.

After throwing his soccer ball out of view, Corey comes across Morty, having returned from the water and covered in lake weeds.

Although previous horror films had included individual horrorcore tracks (for example, the Fat Boys' "Are You Ready for Freddy" for the film A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master), The Fear was the first film to try and capitalize on the burgeoning genre with a soundtrack completely devoted to it (with a 2013 LA Weekly article claiming the VHS box art "plugged the music, saying its soundtrack would do for horrorcore 'what Singles did for Grunge'").