fear dot com

Rating:
Summary: Terrible....
Review: "Fear dot com" has got to be the worst horror movie of all time, No wait, The worst movie of all time in any genre!

I usally like all kind of horror movies, But there is nothing about this movie I liked. The best part of "fear dot com" was when the credits started to roll.

It had bad acting, horrible storyline, the lighting was bad. The movie was so dark at times you didn't know what was going on. If you must see this, wait for it to come on TV if it hasn't already. Don't waste $20 like me and buy it without seeing it first.

Rating:
Summary: Unscary and Unprofessional Mess
Review: This is not a joke. This movie will make you look fondly upon Showgirls. It will make you reconsider Rollerball. It will make you appreciate Melanie Griffith's acting. This absolute muddled mess of an excuse of a joke of a film feels so recut and re-edited as to make any possibility of coherency moot. The film (shot in Luxembourg, doubling for New York) is laden with rotting European buildings and bizarrely accented supporting actors. The plot (ha!) deals with a serial killer who broadcasts his murders live on the web but can never be tracked down because -- get this -- he changes servers every time. One of his victims' ghosts takes over the internet in an effort to wreak vengeance on her killer. Which begs any number of questions: why doesn't the ghost go after the killer directly, why does the ghost kill cops trying to catch the killer and why doesn't the ghost -- who has the power to communicate over the net -- simply reveal the killer's whereabouts to the police?

It is rare that I see a movie where I can't wait for it to be over, but here we have a winner.

Steven Dorff scowls his way through this one. The scowling is a joke, a cosmic reaction to this fairly ridiculous horror movie. Dorff's police officer Mike Reilly is trying to get to the bottom of these grisly murders with the aid of health department beauty Terry Houston played by Natascha McElhone

There was very little to like about it, the dialogue was terrible, how many times can you listen to the phrase "Oh my god"? The plot was nonsensical, there was no motivation or any type of connection between the characters that make's sense. It is hard to make a film that reaches beyond my ability to suspend disbelief but this reached it. I like weird, strange, unexplainable films, but this is merely stupid.

Avoid it!

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Summary: (...)
Review: Now the monsters are in our computers.....when will it ever stop?

This dark and confusing film is directed by William Malone, someone notorious for filming with strange lighting and alternate worlds from what normal human beings reside within. This entire film is in the dark and that includes the storyline. Viewers are asked to believe that a website that features murder, mutilations and abuse can infect their brains via the internet.....just not very plausible! But as horror films go we must believe so that we can be scarred to death, which is exactly what happens to the victims of this film. Each person who logs onto the horrible website dies in 48 hours of what they fear most in the world. Unfortunately the story does not explain itself until the very end when it is all supposed to make sense. It would have been a better film had the story been part of the movie before the ending.

Acting in this movie are Stephen Dorff, as a moody detective, and Natascha McElhorne, as a health inspector. Together these two people solve the internet "virus" while also getting sucked into the game. Stephen Rea is also seen as a creepy doctor and manages to be the only one with any clout. The acting is alright but I feel the actors suffer from the material they were given to work with. This film may appeal to "techies," all those overly educated souls who might be able to conjure up something as remote as the concepts portrayed in this film, but for the average internet surfer we have nothing to fear....including this movie!


Rating:
Summary: Simply unwatchable
Review: I think director William Malone should be forbidden to ever direct again, and all the actors involved should hav etheir licenses to work retired from them.

Of course I'm joking, I want no harm to the people responsible for this utterly mess, one of the worst terror flicks ever. Half way through it I could care less about it, but with sheer willpower I managed to finish it. A decent promise (for the terror genre, anyway) was simply wasted in a manner seldom witnessed. The film is unwatchable: dark, dark and more dark, awful edition, bad dialogue, well, enough...

Rating:
Summary: utter garbage
Review: not even worth a rental, completely boaring, horrible, and poorly executed. Avoid like the plague!

Rating:
Summary: Interesting visuals...short on story
Review: Upon finishing this movie I felt extremely dissapointed. William Malone certainly knows how to create a dark and ambient atmosphere as demonstrated in his House on Haunted Hill remake but Fear Dot Com falls short...way short.

I watched the movie again with commentary and realized that the movies downfalls weren't because of sloppy film making or incompetence but rather his intention to make the film as dark and resembling a nightmare as possible. As we all know, many nightmares are incoherent and in capturing this vision, the story falls apart.

The performances fall by the wayside in this over the top visual journey but each actor still holds their own and its a shame they didnt have more to work with.

The story itself has amazing potential that is never quite lived up to due to the over concentration on imagery. The characters are under developed and as the film goes on the viewer will find itself confused (and possibly having a seizure)

To sum up this movie I will say this: It is a 95 minute art exhibit...nothing more. Where Malone found a perfect balance of concentration on the art direction and plot development in House on Haunted Hill he fails in Fear Dot Com. That still doesn't mean that this movie isn't worth viewing. Fear Dot Com is so over the top and unusual you won't find anything like it on film, at least as far as art direction is concerned.

Give it a chance and make sure to watch it more then once to get the full impact of its amazing photpgraphy