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Description: Genre: Horror / Theatrical Release: 2002 / Director: William Malone / Actors: Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone ... / ... more
Feardotcom (DVD) ... DVD released 03 October, 2005 at Uca Catalogue / Features of the DVD: PAL, Widescreen / Fear Dot Com is a total-dot-mess, but at least it's a stylishly graphic frightfest that die-hard horror buffs will probably appreciate. As he did with his 1999 remake of House on Haunted Hill, director William Malone favours trippy atmosphere at the expense of acting, character development and plot. Belatedly jumping on the Internet-thriller bandwagon, the film follows a brooding detective (Stephen Dorff) and a public-health inspector (Natascha McElhone) as they investigate the deadly influence of the titular website, which channels the innermost fears of its visitors until they die of fright 48 hours later. Why 48 hours? Don't ask; Josephine Coyle's screenplay is as incoherent as Malone's grasp of narrative momentum, leaving Dorff and McElhone with little to do but look frightened and doomed. But Fear Dot Com has its moments, especially after mad doctor Stephen Rea's gruesome villainy is fully revealed, and the proceedings take on the monochrome pallor of silent German expressionism. Too bad these fantastic visuals weren't servicing a better movie. --Jeff Shannon

Newest Review: ... has been sending Reilly letters? The Internet can be a dangerous place. Do you like to watch? Can you think of a good way to ... more

 ... try and freak out your audience? How about taking something that generally gives comfort and entertainment and turning it on its head so that it becomes sinister and dangerous? This is what Feardotcom is all about and it continues the trend set off by My Little Eye that portrays a much darker side to the Internet. Sadly, Feardotcom fails miserably as a movie. One of its biggest problems is that it is all rather confused, comprising of several different ideas that are stitched together only very loosely. A good plot ...more

plipplop
Crowned Review Feardotcom (DVD): Hallowe'en Horror: Do You Like To Watch? (1274 words)
by plipplop - written on 05/10/07 (Very useful, 112 readings)
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When the body of a professor is found in a New York subway station, the police are baffled by the cause of death. The victim’s face bears a hideous expression, as though he has literally died of fear and he appears to have suffered horrendous hemorrhaging; his eyes are engorged with blood. The local environmental team is brought into investigate and police detective Mike Reilly partners up with Terry Huston from the health department to investigate what is going on. Contagion is soon ruled out, but when a delirious young German man is brought into the station Reilly is concerned to see the same hemorrhaging around the youth’s eyes. Within hours, the man is dead, his ...

lisa2062
Premium Review www.soundsfamiliar.com (1062 words)
by lisa2062 - written on 17/05/06 (Very useful, 254 readings)
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A New York City detective and a health examiner join forces when a series of gory and oddly a like murders take place. The one thing that links all of the victims together is the fact that they all logged on to a horrifically vulgar website. The only way to get to the truth and save another innocent life is for our two heroes to log on. The writers of this film clearly copied the plot from the Japanese Ring: O films, the only difference being is that the victims have 48 hours to live after logging on to the site, where as the ring films you would die 7 days after watching the video. The main idea of this film was to make people more aware ...

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Premium Review Feardotcom (DVD): Do You Like To Watch? (2033 words)
by wampyrii - written on 06/06/03 (Very useful, 266 readings)
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A man chases a white haired girl onto a railway track before being run down. The post-mortem look of horror on his face portrays a horror far more extreme than simply being hit by a train...and then there's the matter of the perimortem bleeding from his ears and eyes. The girl is never found and no one else remembers seeing her. A German exchange student goes nuts and is dragged raving into a police station to cool off, his eyes are bleeding and a little later he is dead. Cause of death...unknown. A little later his girlfriend too is found dead in the bath having seemingly bled to death but no visible wounds and the look of horror on her face betrays ...

 
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