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The film follows Nicole Walker (Witherspoon), a 16-year-old from a wealthy Seattle family who, during a rave, meets the charismatic and handsome David McCall (Wahlberg). Initially, David appears as the perfect bad boy—confident, attentive, and daring. He quickly seduces Nicole, and she introduces him to her family. However, his charm rapidly unravels. David’s behavior escalates from possessive to violently unstable: he stalks Nicole, breaks into her home, sexually humiliates her friend, and eventually leads a terrifying home invasion. The film’s climax is a brutal cat-and-mouse game inside the Walker family’s isolated lake house, where survival depends on outsmarting a psychopath who knows no boundaries. nonton film fear 1996 sub indo exclusive