Synopsis
When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City, brash young detective Mike Reilly teams with ambitious Department of Health researcher Terry Huston 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 onto a website called feardotcom.
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Cast
- Stephen DorffMike
- Natascha McElhoneTerry
- Stephen ReaAlistair
- Udo KierPolidori
- Amelia CurtisDenise
- Jeffrey CombsStyles
- Nigel TerryTurnball
- Gesine CukrowskiJeannine
- Michael SarrazinFrank Bryant
- Jana GuttgemannsLittle Girl
Recommendations
- 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
Variety
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
TV Guide Magazine
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. - 25
New York Daily News
The story is a mess, some of the images offensive, the acting under par and the dialogue silly. - 20
The A.V. Club
Made with just enough craft to keep it from being the instantly dated camp howler its title promises, but it's quickly apparent that there's no thought or originality under its grim, familiar surface. - 10
Film Threat
This movie is plain stupid from the get go, but at least it looks good.
