Storyline
With four corpses on his hands, New York City gumshoe Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff) teams with Department of Health worker Terry Huston (Natascha McElhone) to track down a homicidal sadist who telecasts shocking acts of torture on the Internet. But they have their work cut out: It seems the victims' only link is that they all went toes up 48 hours after logging on a site known as feardotcom.com. Stephen Rea also stars in this gruesome thriller.
Directors
Cast
Stephen Rea, Nigel Terry, Stephen Dorff, Matthias Schweighöfer, Udo Kier, Jeffrey Combs, Anna Thalbach, Natascha McElhone, Siobhan Flynn, Sven Pippig, Amelia Curtis, Gesine Cukrowski, Michael Sarrazin, Jana Guttgemanns, Joan McBride, Elizabeth McKechnie, Arnita Swanson, Gordon Peters, Birthe Wolter, Birthe Wolter
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Reviews
50
Chicago Sun-Times
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.
40
New Times (L.A.)
If sudden loud noises, relentless strobe lights, digital hallucinations and mutilated corpses make you jump, and you feel that nothing more is required for a good time at the movies, welcome to Feardotcom.
40
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.
30
There's a germ of an interesting idea here, but it's smothered by gloomy cinematography a la "Seven" (1995) and grating implausibilities, like the fact that everyone lives in the kind of cavernous, dankly art-directed dumps that only internet millionaires and trust fund twinkies can afford in the real New York.
25
New York Post
A low-rent, slow-witted horror flick notable chiefly for its hilariously unsuccessful attempt to pass off Luxembourg City as New York City.
