Feardotcom's thrills are all cheap, but they mostly work.
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08/29/02
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Fear Dot Com (2002)
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Reviews Counted:88
Fresh:3
Rotten:85
Average Rating:2.6/10
Consensus: As frustrating as a 404 error, Fear Dot Com is a stylish, incoherent, and often nasty mess with few scares.
Theatrical Release:Aug 30, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $13,138,876
Synopsis: "Do you like to watch?" A woman's voice beckons from the computer. Images flash across the screen - parted lips, bound wrists, flesh. Her seductive tone summons you closer, inviting you... [More]
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Reviews for Fear Dot Com
The only thing you have to fear ... is being trapped in a theater showing this dot-bomb.
08/30/02
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.
01/26/06
Build some robots, haul 'em to the theatre with you for the late show, and put on your own Mystery Science Theatre 3000 tribute to what is almost certainly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other year.
10/02/02
This internet-based spook-fest is arguably the least imaginative, most pathetic horror of the decade.
12/30/06
There are some fairly unsettling scenes, but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer.
08/28/02
Of all the trash I had to watch in 2002, the insipid FearDotCom easily ranks among the worst.
01/13/03
A depraved, incoherent, instantly disposable piece of hackery.
09/27/02
The director, William Malone, is like his villain: a sick person trying to justify what he's doing by making his audience voyeurs. He's like the character from Fight Club that splices hard-core porn into Disney films.
01/16/03
The result is the equivalent to a roller coaster missing pieces of its track.
10/01/02
Completely creatively stillborn and executed in a manner that I’m not sure could be a single iota worse... a soulless hunk of exploitative garbage.
09/06/02
An awfully ridiculous horror film that thinks itself grandly mysterious and bone-shakingly horrifying.
09/01/02
"Feardotcom" has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal nature of the internet and the otherworldly energies it could channel, but it simply becomes a routine shocker.
02/21/03
The big mystery is how Malone convinces name casts to appear in his semi-competent fare.
09/09/02
Even if FearDotCom wasn't a good five years behind the curve, it would still be saddled with a ludicrous script, nonsensical direction and wince-inducing performances.
10/14/02
The biggest fear I have is being tortured by having to watch this movie until my eyes and nose start bleeding.
08/30/02
Despite the up-to-the-minute trappings, there's nothing here that's newer than rotary-dial phones.
08/29/02
As directed by William Malone, the man who nailed the “condemned” sign to the front of 1999’s “The House on Haunted Hill,” “Feardotcom” is essentially a showcase for the humiliation, mutilation and sadomasochistic torture of women.
10/03/02
It's bad in a sickening, disturbing way, with its gratuitous mixture of sex and violence.
01/06/07
Top CriticYou'd think Jeannie would be angry at mom for being so preposterously dim, but no, she's taking it out on people who surf the internet. You've been warned.
08/30/02
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