Feardotcom

2002 Horror

Terror is lurking online in this thriller directed by William Malone, who also helmed the 1999 remake of House on Haunted Hill. Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff) is a NYPD detective who has been assigned to look into a string of murders which have taken place in Manhattan, with Terry Houston (Natascha McElhone), a researcher from the city Department of Health, lending her assistance whether Reilly likes it or not. Reilly discovers that all four victims have one thing in common -- they were all men who logged on to the same Internet website exactly 48 hours before they were killed. It seems the website features a sexy woman offering kinky fun to those who enter her domain, but clicking the wrong icon takes users on a journey into fear. Reilly decides the only way to find out the truth is to head into the website and find out what follows for the next two days -- if he can make it out alive. Fear dot com also stars Stephen Rea, Jeffrey Combs, and Udo Kier. more..

Director: William Malone

Starring: Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea, Udo Kier, Amelia Curtis

 30 Reviews  5 Awards

Reviews

  • Strange, how good feardotcom is, and how bad. The screenplay is a mess, and yet the visuals are so creative this is one of the rare bad films you might actually want to see.

    Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times

    19 January 2013

  • As scary and minor-chord heavy as FearDotCom can be, there's no big payoff, no logical resolution.

    Robert K. Elder - The Chicago Tribune

    19 January 2013

  • The film squanders every opportunity (and international-coproduction cent) on by now imitative Nine Inch Nails-video-style visual Goth-goo, and, scarily, forgets to input a plot or script that makes any sense.

    Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly

    19 January 2013

  • It is painful to watch an actor as skillful as Mr. Dorff reduced to delivering flat repetitive dialogue that would make any actor look foolish.

    Stephen Holden - The New York Times

    19 January 2013

  • The story leapfrogs abruptly from scene to scene, and it makes such a mockery of narrative logic and continuity that the cast tends to look either baffled (Dorff) or as if they're trying to remain unrecognized.

    Manohla Dargis - Los Angeles Times

    19 January 2013

Awards

  • William Malone

    Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival (2004)

     

  • Worst Film

    Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards (2003)

  • Worst Film

    Fangoria Chainsaw Awards (2003)

  • William Malone

    Fantafestival (2003)

  • William Malone

    Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival (2002)

     

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