BA_Harrison A serial killer known as The Doctor (Stephen Rea) is streaming his gruesome handiwork live over the internet for the entertainment of twisted individuals. Meanwhile, the spirit of one of The Doctor's previous victims has set up her own online torture portal (don't ask me how), punishing those who are tempted to watch by killing them 48 hours later. New York cop Mike (Stephen Dorff) is on the case, aided by Department of Health worker Terry (Natascha McElhone).Director William Malone gave us the entertaining 1999 remake of House on Haunted Hill, but his follow-up, Feardotcom, is far less satisfying: the plot is wholly unoriginal (it's basically The Ring, with a website instead of a video, plus a bit of torture porn), the convoluted script is a mess, the performances are weak, and the whole affair is given an aesthetic guaranteed to get my goat-trite blue and orange palette, rapid editing, and lots of dark imagery with flickering lighting (just like 90% of horror films from the same decade).In the film's most ridiculous scenes, both Mike and Terry visit feardotcom.com (why the double .com? See IMDb's trivia for the lame reason) despite being well aware of what will happen to them in two days' time. That's dedication beyond the call of duty, but also pretty damned stupid. As is this film.

videorama-759-859391 This dark and muddled movie almost gives a bad name to the internet. Underused actor Stephen 'Crying Game' Rea is completely wasted as a master psycho controller of a web site, which if you visit, shortly after, you die. The premise is interesting but is too unbelievable where there's a lot of dark slow moments. 'Power Of One' child actor Dorff puts the C in cool, in a strong and interesting 'tough guy' character performance, where a dim future awaits. He's accompanied by a very well played lead, where you hope, a sexual fling or relationship will develop. The film is ultimately bad and comes across as ludicrous, another malfunction of a film. There's hardly any violence on the whole, again a 'high level violence' warning as in how it's displayed, is a joke. The film comes up short on many things, and this one, on the latest view around, surprise surprise, I didn't like it anymore, as I liked it last time. Sadly it's Rea, who you only see in a number of scenes, who lucks out, in this with a genuine evil performance, with a voice to match. It's a performance that will go unnoticed or be forgotten, cause of the film's stuff ups or dislike for it. Yes, it's a site you don't want to visit, or the movie itself too.

kirawolfcub I saw this movie late one night where a friend and I decided to hold a bad movie night. In a way we got with we wanted. The scares are cheap and easy to guess, the actors all seem like they wish they could escape from it, and one of my biggest problems who the illness they decided to give the ghost girl Jean Marie. I will give hemophilia does make an interesting weakness for a person to have, but it's like that writers just heard of it and decided 'perfect! this is what we're gonna go with'. For starters it's a sexist submissive gene, meaning that woman are usually carriers where men are affected. You have to be super unlucky as a woman to get it. Second, they play it up to that Jean was just afraid of sharp things cause she could bleed to bleed id she cut herself. Hemophiliacs can bleed to death from bruises without their meds. So the fact that they claim she was tortured for hours is just crap.It was a movie with potential but it failed to deliver.

ParentTrap98 I caught this movie on Lifetime (my favorite channel along with WeTV) and I thought since it was on their (they have such good taste for REAL dramas) network that it must be great. Instead this movie offended me. For one this movie was so scary that I was afraid to get on my computer for days, much less the internet! When I was watching this I had to turn on all my lights! I don't like getting scared! Plus this was too internet themed! I think it is a bad idea exploiting women like this! The only reason I gave it a point five was because Lifetime has great taste. Maybe they saw something in this? I didn't. Anyways don't see this movie! It's too scary, and too internet themed!