Purely Joyful Movie!

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

A cop investigating a string of deaths discovers a website seemingly haunted by a ghost seeking revenge on her killer. Upon visiting the site the visitor has 48 hours to find said killer or the vengeful spirit will kill them. At least, I think thats what happened. FeardotCom manages to take a very silly but simple storyline and make it both confusing and frustrating to watch, all whilst boring its audience half to death. About 50% of the film made me feel like I was watching a cheap, early 2000's music video for a Nine Inch Nails cover band. I think they may have been going for something similar to Se7en in tone but fell very, very short of the mark. The one redeeming feature of this film is its internet naivety - its set shortly before the whole Web 2.0 thing and because of this the titular scary website appears to be hosted on an angelfire or tripod site which I found amusing. No dancing baby gif's unfortunately. The C-list cast each delivers a suitably ropey performance and there is very little in the way of scares. Perhaps BoringdotCom might have been a more apt title.

This is honestly a movie that I have loved since I've been probably 7 or 8 years old. I seen it around that time so that could be a reason why I give it a good rating. It is just one of those movies that has stuck to me through the years. The film is about people who log onto Feardotcom.com and end up mysteriously dying 48 hours later. A detective and a woman who studies viruses team up to stop the girl behind the computer as they logged on.One thing that always gets me is how this movie actually isn't any more popular due to it coming out when computers were getting big. I find the film haunting beautiful since it is shot in a rainy New York scene for all of the movie. The woman portraying the girl on the screen is good at doing a seductive killer who is haunting yet beautiful. I will say the acting is good but Natasha slightly lacks expression. If you know me, I am a big Stephen Dorff fan and this is just another movie he has excelled in.

Maybe it's because I'm 62 years old and have seen lots of real horror in my life, but this movie was beyond boring. The usual staccato light shows that are supposed to add 'layer upon layer' of images to create a terrifying effect do nothing more than get me dizzy at which point my attention also wanes. The effect they were trying for? This definitely wasn't it. Fear is a basic human emotion, and it peaks when it involves those things we are most familiar with and that suddenly take a wrong turn. If a movie doesn't call for our imaginative participation, it falls flat, like this one did. If the setting had been some average kid's room instead of a dismal otherworldly big-city mausoleum of a flat, that might have helped. But there's just too much wrong with this movie for anyone to bother with it.

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!