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NUMBERS
Box Office: $13,138,876
VHS Rentals: $3,310,000
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CONSENSUS
Stylish, incoherent mess with few scares.
CAST & CREW
Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea
Directed by William Malone
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SYNOPSIS
"Do you like to watch?" A woman's voice beckons from the computer. Images flash across the screen - parted lips, bound wrists, flesh. more...
MPAA RATING
R, violence including grisly images of torture, nudity, and language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 54 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Aug 30, 2002
Video: Jan 14, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Warner Bros.
GENRE
Horror/Suspense, Mystery, Police, New York City, Internet
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Fear Dot Com Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Death might be a release."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"About as cutting-edge as Pet Rock: The Movie."
-- Scott Von Doviak, FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
"It’s tough to be startled when you’re almost dozing."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"The only thing scary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brazen enough to attempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"The only thing to fear about “Fear Dot Com” is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
 "Feardotcom's thrills are all cheap, but they mostly work."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, DALLAS OBSERVER
"A vile, incoherent mess...a scummy ripoff of David Cronenberg's brilliant 'Videodrome.'"
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"As directed by William Malone, the man who nailed the “condemned” sign to
the front of 1999’s “The House on Haunted Hill,” “Feardotcom” is essentially
a showcase for the humiliation, mutilation and sadomasochistic torture of
women."
-- Christopher Smith, BANGOR DAILY NEWS (MAINE)
"This is rote spookiness, with nary an original idea (or role, or edit, or score, or anything, really) in sight, and the whole of the proceedings beg the question 'Why?'"
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"Malone does have a gift for generating nightmarish images that will be hard to burn out of your brain. But the movie’s narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure."
-- Nick Rogers, STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER (SPRINGFIELD, IL)
"I'll go out on a limb. It isn't quite one of the worst movies of the year. It's just merely very bad."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"A mess when it comes to the characters and writing...but works its way underneath the skin like few movies have in recent memory."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
"Aside from the fact that the film idiotically uses the website feardotcom.com or the improperly hammy performance from poor Stephen Rea, the film gets added disdain for the fact that it is nearly impossible to look at or understand."
-- David Perry, CINEMA-SCENE.COM
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"Cinematic poo."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"Summer's far too fleeting to squander on offal like this."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"Going to the website may be just as fun (and scary) as going to the film."
-- Michael Szymanski, ZAP2IT.COM
"It cannot be enjoyed, even on the level that one enjoys a bad slasher flick, primarily because it is dull. Yes, dull."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"Completely creatively stillborn and executed in a manner that I’m not sure could be a single iota worse... a soulless hunk of exploitative garbage."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"There are some fairly unsettling scenes, but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer."
-- Alex Sandell, JUICY CEREBELLUM
"Nonsensical, dull "cyber-horror" flick is a grim, hollow exercise in flat scares and bad acting."
-- James Rocchi, NETFLIX
""Feardotcom" has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal nature of the internet and the otherworldly energies it could channel, but it simply becomes a routine shocker."
-- Bryan Reesman, CITYSEARCH
"What little atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting, macabre sets, and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else."
-- John J. Puccio, DVDTOWN.COM
"Taken purely as an exercise in style, this oppressively gloomy techno-horror clambake is impossible to ignore. But as a movie, it's a humorless, disjointed mess."
-- Jonathan R. Perry, TYLER MORNING TELEGRAPH (TEXAS)
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ROTTEN 0%
Avg. Rating: 3.1/10 |
"What could have been a pointed little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of new technology loses faith in its own viability and succumbs to joyless special-effects excess."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Fear Dot Com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 seconds."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"The only upside to all of this unpleasantness is, given its Labor Day weekend upload, FearDotCom should log a minimal number of hits."
-- Michael Rechtshaffen, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Expect to be reminded of other, better films, especially Seven, which director William Malone slavishly copies."
-- John Monaghan, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"Press the delete key."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
"Anyone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally, and log on to something more user-friendly."
-- Glenn Lovell, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
"What we get in FearDotCom is more like something from a bad Clive Barker movie. In other words, it's badder than bad."
-- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"The movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase 'fatal script error.'"
-- Liam Lacey, GLOBE AND MAIL
"A depraved, incoherent, instantly disposable piece of hackery."
-- Ann Hornaday, WASHINGTON POST
"fear dot com is so rambling and disconnected it never builds any suspense."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
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"Two hours of sepia-tinted heavy metal images and surround sound effects of people moaning."
-- Mark Palermo, COAST (HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA)
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Fear Dot Com" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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