The only thing to fear about “Fear Dot Com” is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film.
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.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for violence including grisly images of torture, nudity and language
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
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... "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 in... "Do you want to see more?" If you click "yes" - and you know you want to - you'll be logged on to the internet site feardot.com, and the game begins. What follows is a miasma of hellish images that leave unsuspecting voyeurs suffering from morbid hallucinations and unspeakable terror. When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City, brash young detective Mike Reilly (STEPHEN DORFF) teams with ambitious Department of Health researcher Terry Huston (NATASCHA MCELHONE) to uncover the cause behind their violent and inexplicable deaths. The only common factor shared by the victims? Each died exactly 48 hours after logging on to feardot.com. Were they being punished for their inquisitiveness? For succumbing to temptation? For indulging their guilty pleasures? Determined to confront and destroy the evil force behind the deadly site, Mike logs on and the clock starts ticking. Now he's got 48 hours to face his own worst fears and solve the mystery, or suffer the fate of the victims before him. Together with Terry, he delves deep into a forbidden universe of contaminated souls and shocking imagery, each step bringing them closer to the horrifying counter-reality of feardot.com - and a life-and-death confrontation with Alistair Pratt (STEPHEN REA), a sadistic murderer who has eluded Mike and the FBI for years. What they discover is as mystifying as the deaths themselves... and more terrifying than anything they ever dreamed. "Time's almost up..." -- © 2002 Warner Bros. [More]
Starring: Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea
Starring: Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea
Director: William Malone
Director: William Malone
Screenwriter: Josephine Coyle
Producer: Moshe Diamant, Limor Diamant, Andrew Stevens, Elie Samaha
Composer: Nicholas Pike
Studio: Warner Bros.
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Reviews for Fear Dot Com
If (this) sounds like entertainment to you, perhaps you should save the price of admission and put it toward therapy.
Anyone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally, and log on to something more user-friendly.
fear dot com is so rambling and disconnected it never builds any suspense.
As scary and minor-chord heavy as FearDotCom can be, there's no big payoff, no logical resolution. It's like waiting for a site to download, only to find that when it happens, anticipation was more than half of the empty thrill.
There are some fairly unsettling scenes, but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer.
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