Fear Dot Com

201. Fear Dot Com

Fear Dot Com is a 2002 horror flick directed by William Malone who was slightly hot off of 1999's House on Haunted Hill remake.

People begin dying of what appears to be a hemorrhagic virus. Department of Health officials can't find any signs of a virus however. Detective work by the NYPD eventually turns up that all victims have been spending time on a website called feardotcom.

Oh dear lord, this is really a terrible movie. Back in 2002 when it came out, it was widely panned by critics and horror fans alike. I saw it upon its release to dvd and didn't care for it. I rewatched it the other night thinking that maybe my opinion would soften after 8 years. Obviously, it didn't. Alright, first of all, when the characters type out the name of the website, they type out feardotcom.com. I know the internet wasn't quite as big as it is now back then, but how the hell could that be something like that be overlooked? Secondly, the way the internet is discussed, it is fairly obvious that whomever wrote the movie has never used the internet in their lives. The person who wrote it obviously saw Ringu and Kairo however, as this one borrows liberally from both. In terms of casting, Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone and Stephen Rea are the leads. They do the best they can with the material but there still isn't much to show for it at the end of the day.

Overall, Fear Dot Com is garbage and not worth watching at all. Skip it.