FeardotCom

Name: FeardotCom
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Crime
Released: August 30, 2002
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 16
Cast: Natascha McElhone, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Rea

2002

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Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: August 30, 2002 | R

Starring: Natascha McElhone, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Rea

Summary: A brash young police detective (Dorff) joins forces with a beautiful, ambitious Department of Health researcher (McElhone) to find the answers behind the mysterious deaths of four people who each died 48 hours after logging on to the Internet site Feardotcom. (Warner Bros.)

Director: William Malone

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 101 min

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Roger Ebert

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. Read full review

Scott Foundas

Never quite realizes its potential to evoke the real horror of the Internet -- Yet, Malone has given the film a distinctive atmosphere and occasional flashes of his perverse sense of humor. Read full review

Robert K. Elder

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

J.R. Jones

Shameless exercise in high-tech sadism. Read full review

Marc Savlov

Would have made a hell of a short -- but falls flat on its hyperstylized face as a feature. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

A depraved, incoherent, instantly disposable piece of hackery. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

The film is a failure in just about every way, save for its acting, which is adequate. Read full review

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Apr 6, 2021

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Ripcord33

Apr 10, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The basis of the movie is a woman who has hemophilia. Although this is generally a condition which affects men, there are documented cases of female hemophiliacs.… Expand

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Ocular24

Apr 14, 2021

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horcrux2007

Aug 4, 2015

It's a bad sign when the highlight of your movie is when the stream starts buffering. I don't think I've seen a movie this lame since One Missed Call. FeardotCom follows two detectives, Mike and Terry, who investigate a series of murders that all link back to the awkwardly namedIt's a bad sign when the highlight of your movie is when the stream starts buffering. I don't think I've seen a movie this lame since One Missed Call. FeardotCom follows two detectives, Mike and Terry, who investigate a series of murders that all link back to the awkwardly named feardotcom.com. If you visit the site, you die in 48 hours unless you can solve its mystery. Sound familiar? This movie is a complete rip-off of The Ring, except this has a two day time limit instead of a week, and it's a haunted website instead of a videotape. The "big reveal" at the end is incredibly similar to the one in The Ring, which makes this a very predictable thriller. Somehow, despite the fact that this "thriller" has so many inconsistent and just plain stupid twists, it managed to still bore me to tears. Everything about FeardotCom is so pathetic and lazy, from the laughable writing to the mediocre acting, that there just isn't anything to enjoy about this almost infuriatingly insipid film.… Expand

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