fear dot com (FeardotCom) (2002)
Average Rating: 2.7/10
Reviews Counted: 95
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 92
As frustrating as a 404 error, Fear Dot Com is a stylish, incoherent, and often nasty mess with few scares.
Average Rating: 2.9/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 21
As frustrating as a 404 error, Fear Dot Com is a stylish, incoherent, and often nasty mess with few scares.
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Movie Info
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
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Cast
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Stephen Dorff
Mike Reilly -
Natascha McElhone
Terry Houston -
Stephen Rea
Alistair Pratt -
Udo Kier
Polidori -
Amelia Curtis
Denise -
Jeffrey Combs
Styles -
Nigel Terry
Turnbull -
Gesine Cukrowski
Jeannine -
Michael Sarrazin
Frank Bryant -
Jana Güttgemanns
Little Girl -
Anna Thalbach
Kate -
Sigal Diamant
Nurse -
Evie Garratt
Albino Woman -
Elizabeth McKechnie
Alice Turnbull -
Gordon Peters
Rooney -
Kwasi Songui
Young Detective -
Sven Pippig
Henry -
Matthias Schweighöfe...
Dieter Schrader -
Chris Bearne
Warehouse Attendant -
Nils Brunkhorst
Prisoner -
Siobhan Flynn
Thana Brinkman -
Dean Gregory
Maintenance Man #1 -
Anjelika Khromova
Ashley's Mother -
Lex Kreps
Tenant -
Derek Kueter
Officer #1 -
Mascha Litterscheid
Nurse #2 -
Joan McBride
Mrs. Richardson -
Frances Potasnik
Nurse #1 -
Astrid Skuyat
Alistair's Victim -
Arnita Swanson
Barlow -
Anja Van Greuningen
Ashley -
Isabelle Van Waes
Victim -
Birthe Wolter
Nina Blank -
Emma Campbell
Goth-Chick
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All Critics (95) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (92) | DVD (18)
Feardotcom is the cinematic equivalent of spam in your e-mail inbox.
While such artlessness doesn't inspire shivers, it's definitely worth a few cheap laughs.
[A] shameless exercise in high-tech sadism.
The scariest thing about Feardotcom is that the movie ever got made.
It's bad in a sickening, disturbing way, with its gratuitous mixture of sex and violence.
The clunking exposition, narrative incoherence and abysmal dialogue might find favour with aficionados of bad films, but even they won't forgive the sheer nasty mindedness of this lurid mess.
Top CriticA decent score and truly gorgeous cinematography are ruined by a terrible script and violence that defines gratuitous.
Awful but strangely endearing.
Feardotcom is full of inconsistencies and contradictions, but none are more disturbing than the fact that not a single policeman wears gloves at any of the umpteen crime scenes scattered throughout the film.
FearDotCom was made with just enough craft to keep it from being the instantly dated camp howler its title promises, but it's quickly apparent that there's no thought or originality under its grim, familiar surface.
It's simply really bad.
[An] illogical, repulsive nightmare...
Watching Feardotcom is often like being splashed with sewage by a Super-Soaker.
William Malone's fear dot com desperately wants to be a cutting-edge chiller with its 'up-to-the-minute' internet theme, but turns out to be a depressing up-chuck of every great horror movie of the last 20 years.
This internet-based spook-fest is arguably the least imaginative, most pathetic horror of the decade.
Tenta ser uma mistura de Se7en e Ringu, mas revela-se apenas uma piada de mau gosto.
...dark, grungy and generally unpleasant to look at.
... it manages to be both prurient and very, very naive about the internet.
Over-directed, confused, badly-acted, poorly scripted trash.
Malone does have a gift for generating nightmarish images that will be hard to burn out of your brain. But the movie's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure.
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