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Summary: Horrible Rip-off of "The Ring"
Review: This movie is very similar to "The Ring" except it's a website that kills you instead of a video. Ok, I'll admitt this has some creepy scenes, but yet it was very corny in parts. And who can forget the line "Come find me...you have 48 hours." Gimme a break. Get "The Ring" as oppsoed to this.
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Summary: Watch this film with the sound off. You will enjoy it more.
Review: The scene that crystallized "feardotcom" for me came when the two main characters were watching a video tape in which a kid was talking in German. At that point I realized that this 2002 horror film was a lot more interesting when you did not understand what was being said, because then instead of trying to understand what was going on you could look at the striking visual images that infest "feardotcom" and make up your own horror story. Chances are you could not do not much worse than this script, which is equal parts convoluted and confused. As the title sort of indicates, this film is about an evil web site: if you surf the net there you die 48 hours later from your deepest fear. This will involve being visited by a little girl in a white dress and a white ball, and when you die you will bleed from your eyes. The last point is important because it is really the only thing that allows Detective Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff) and Department of Health inspector Terry Huston (Natascha McElhone) to start connecting the dots. Anyhow, I guess the Web site downloads bad karma into those who dare to visit the site, which sort of makes sense in terms of movie logic. The Web site fear.com has shock-wave images of bloody knives, screaming lips, and such, and then a cyber babe comes along and asks you a series of interactive questions, one of which is the standard "Do you like to watch?" However, instead of sex, voyeuristic subscribers get to watch a psycho (Stephen Rea) basically perform an autopsy on a living woman. What does this creep have to do with the little girl and the bouncing white balls that burst open to reveal bunches of not nice things? Well, unless you have never seen a horror film, you should have a clue on how to connect the dots here. Visually the film is disturbing. This is a dark and dingy world, where apparently it always rains, which establishes the pervading mood of gloom and doom. When the creepy Alistair is slicing and dicing people we get flashes of horrific images, although the attempt at grossing out the audience does take the Hitchcock approach in "Psycho," where we think we know what we just saw, but we did not really see it. You may well find the combination of real and implied violence to be a bit overwhelming at some point in the proceedings and I have to admit to being rather surprised this film was not rated NC-17. The rule here for enjoying this film is quite simple: look but don't think. That is because the more you think about it, the less "feardotcom" makes any sense. It looks like a classic horror film, thanks to director William Malone and cinematographer Christian Sebatl, but they are trying to build an expressionistic castle here on water with a bit of sand in it. I would be willing to bet that if you showed the entire film to one group of sophomore white rats (all college studies are done on sophomores or white rats, so for all intents and purposes there are no differences between the two) and just the last twenty minutes or so to another group, the latter would rate the film higher. There are some moments here, but overall this is just another disappointing 21st century horror film.
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Summary: really cool and scary
Review: I found myself enjoying this little horror movie a whole lot, and it is actually pretty scary. some of the stuff was a bit gross- like the cover of the dvd, but overall a really cool movie. If you liked the new House on Haunted Hill -you will probably like this one.
Anyway - there were a lot of negative reviews, which i think is not just. so go ahead and give this one a try.
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Summary: They couldn't afford lights?
Review: Short and sweet, this movie was no good. A "ring" wannabe. The acting was awful, the story was terrible, and you can't see any thing 90% of the time because it's always so dark. The scarriest part was the fact I wasted an hour and a half of my life on this stuff.
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Summary: Fear that someone might actually like this movie.com
Review: Unfortunately there is no negative star rating on Amazon reviews... and if there were I doubt it would go as far into the negatives as I would care to rate it. This was by far the suckiest bunch of suck that ever sucked. I can usually find a redeeming quality in even the worst of movies, but this one had nothing. Why did I even watch it all the way through? I was just waiting for something to make sense and for some surprise ending... but the best part of this movie was that I didn't pay to see it so the idiot that made it got no money from me. There's really just no need to go into detail as to why this movie sucked... if you need to find one reason to watch this movie you've come to the wrong place, because this one isn't even worthy of spoofing on MST3K... AHHHHH!!! Suck isn't even a good enough word to describe how bad this movie was. Imagine a great movie where you get so consumed by it that when it ends you realize you are back in the real world and the adventure is over... now imagine the complete opposite of that... where right from the beginning you are trying to figure out why you are watching it, what better things you could be doing with the time you are wasting watching it, and how much longer will it be before it ends... counting every second hoping it's a short movie. Shame on you movie people for allowing such shlock to even be billed with real movies.
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Summary: Stephen Dorff's worst movie
Review: this movie im not explaining to you, you'll just have to watch the stinkhole. obviously Dorff's worst next to City Of Industry.. WHY DORFF!!!WHY!!!!! think man before you do a project. a heap of crap within a heap of crap
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Summary: Torturing the Audience
Review: WARNING:THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS , PLEASE DON'T PROCEED IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE , OR CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN RISK!! Many of the modern day's horror movies suffers from a very serious problem ....Clishes which means taking some successful elemnts or themes which was implemented in previous successful movies in the past and applying them again , this results in the movie being a very pale copies of the past shiny one , and unfortunately (FearDotCom) is a very clear example on the above lines . The story focuses on a bizzare website filled with strange images of torture and death , any visitor for this site suffers a deadly bleeding to death within forty eight hours of entering the site , a local Detective (Mike played by Stephen Dorff) teams with one of the staff of Health Department (Terry played by Natascha McElmone) to solve the Mysterious deaths , the blood trail leads them to the Doctor , a strange character used to torture his victims and broadcast the whole process on the Web , and in order find the answer to their questions they have to visit the doomed site themselves , means they have only less than forty eight hours to solve the mystery and save themselves . the main problem of the movie aside of the Clishes is the almost unexisting plot , the plot is very tiny , with a very weak building up for events , Stereotype characters which is impossible to care for, dumb characters driving themselves foolishly in the wrong situations and all the other sort of the low qualities of the cheap horror flicks(which in my opinion includes an Unnecessary usage of nudity ). the casting was satisfying with typical performance from Dorff and McElmone , you really feel their effort to deliver a good performance but unfortunately the movie hasn't helped them , the photography needs to be mentioned here , it really was great and added some value for the movie , the director of the photography ( Christian Sebaldt ) have done a good job in capturing the haunting atmosphere required for this kind of movies , with a good use of colors and shadows and strong scenes of torture made with different techniques , the Director (William Malone who did a commentary for the DVD along with Christian Sebaldt ) tried and tried but with this kind of scripts you can't deliver anything whoever you are . FearDotCom wasn't really that bad as many reviewers said , it has some good moments with one or two jumping moments but all of that had fade to black like their black website .
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Summary: FEAR DOT BOMB
Review: "Do you like to watch?" (Not this movie!)
"Do you want to hurt me?" (I want to hurt whoever's responsible for green lighting this tripe).
"You're lying" (Honest Injun. Don't spend your money on this).
Written & Produced by Van Damme's frequent collaborator Moshe Diamant, & Directed by William Malone, the man responsble for the gory but pointless update of the William Castle classic HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, FEAR DOT COM revolves around a serial killer who is stalking his prey through a website named, you guessed it; FEAR DOT COM. A site which combines seduction with sadism.
Early on the film provides some genuinely disturbing moments; but from there it becomes just plain boring with its flaky FX & dull, incoherant story. All FEAR DOT COM suceeds at is wasting a good cast which includes Stephen Dorff (BLADE), the attractive Natasha McElhone (RONIN) & Udo Kier (STORY OF O), Jeffery Coombs (RE-ANIMATOR) and inevitably the viewers time. Don't punish yourself like I did: this is coming from a guy who LOVES bad horror movies. FEAR DOT COM breaks the Vidiot's cardinal film viewing Commandment: "Thou shalt not bore"; and for that the movie's negative deserves to be cast into the fiery inferno along with the master tapes of Paul "Cheeky Darkie" Holmes's CD. Long may the "creative" team beind this abomination suffer from Holmesie's painful warblings of drivel like LINEMAN & CHUNDERING IN THE SAND & may Holmesie's nose wart be bestowed upon thee liketh the black plague; for yay liketh him you possess no talent but are full to the gills with your own bloated self-importance.
In a nutshell, yes; the movie is THAT bad. Take it from Vidiot_y2k, the Cheeky Cracker. Put your money to better use and buy a Xmas pressie for dear old Mum instead.
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Summary: An extremely disappointing trainwreck of a film
Review: It's hard to see how Fear Dot Com could be anything less than spectacular - until you actually watch it, that is. I love the idea of this film, and there are plenty of intriguing aspects to the storyline, but unfortunately none of these inspirations is ever truly explored, and the ending is a complete mess that only spreads the questions and confusion generated by the film in all manner of confused directions. It's akin to watching a criminal in the old days being drawn and quartered; your excitement at watching it turns to disgust and dismay once you see the mess left after the film is pulled in so many directions all at once. Even the opening death scene is problematic. You have this weird guy somehow standing in a subway station that is miraculously empty, only to get himself killed after seeing a creepy girl in white playing on the tracks; the guy seemed to have reached a safe spot only to jump back in front of the train for no apparent reason. Stephen Dorff plays Mike Reilly, the lead detective in the case, and he is joined by Terry Huston from the Department of Health (Natascha McElhone) because the victim apparently began bleeding from his eyes before he was killed. Huston's initial suspicions of an Ebola-type virus are soon disproved, yet she somehow manages to stay on the case and be treated like a bonafide detective by the whole department. Some other people die in a similar manner, including Terry's boss, and it turns out that the only thing the victims had in common was a recent visit (exactly two days before their time of death) to a certain web site. As all of this is going on, we see the handiwork of "the Doctor" and get to enjoy a few peeks at his web site; what this guy does is to torture victims online while other sickos watch, killing them only when they beg for death. It sounds pretty cool, but it isn't; it's especially hard to be frightened of a guy who talks like Liberace having a bad hair day. Terry begs Mike not to visit the website in question, but you can imagine how all of this plays out. Two-thirds of the way in, the movie really falls apart; all the promising plot lines are allowed to go their own separate directions, and the ultimate confrontation is really just silly. After all of this, we are treated to a final scene that means absolutely nothing as far as I can tell. What really frustrated me about this film, though, is not the inferior plot. It is the fact that the director seemingly refused to use any lighting whatsoever for any of the scenes. I can understand the desire to make a film dark and dreary, but what we get here is ridiculous. I was constantly peering into a dark screen simply trying to see what was happening. No one in this movie turns on a light, and the sight of a flashlight was a joyous occasion for me; these New Yorkers don't even turn on a light when they arrive home in the middle of the night. Autopsies are performed in the dark - it's ridiculous. Why go to the trouble of even constructing a set if you're not going to let your audience actually see any of it? I would be remiss if I did not mention the presence of horror icon Jeffrey Combs in this film, but I have to say his is basically a throwaway role that contributes almost nothing to the story. The DVD does feature a deleted scene that failed to impress me, and a short featurette on the making of the film. The featurette and the trailer can make the film sound pretty good, but it is really a major disappointment. I should probably listen to the commentary with director William Malone just to see how he explains himself, but given the fact that this would require me to watch this movie again, I think I will pass.
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Summary: CRAP DOT COM
Review: If you loved The Ring and you are looking for something similar,do not buy or hire this crap.Bad actors,crap story and plot,I didn't find any quality in this stuff even the FX are not great! So if you are looking for the fear, re-watch The Ring instead of this joke !
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