Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Expected more

Absolutely the worst movie.

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Feardotcom (2002): Dir: William Malone / Cast: Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea, Jeffrey Combs, Udo Kier: Computer virus problem taken to new extremes. When your computer addresses you in a female voice, then you need to limit the amount of alcohol you consume. Four murders are linked to a web site and one jackass is found clutching a book. He was struck by a subway train because he thought he saw a little girl on the track. This book is not an anniversary issue of Hustler either although the shock expression on his face would suggest it. Stephen Dorff plays a detective and Natascha McElhone plays a Department of Health researcher and they discover that viewers witness a murder and given 48 hours to find a girl with a ball. Well, that could be any variety of girls, especially if you watch sports. Screenplay has all the potential of a roll of toilet paper. William Malone does his best but this is about as stupid as his previous gore fest House on Haunted Hill. Besides Dorff and McElhone there is Stephen Rea and Jeffrey Combs and not one of these characters knows how to use their brain. Udo Kier even makes an appearance in this dog show, and he apparently has a reputation for making bad film choices. Viewers are urged to log onto something more entertaining such as The Simpsons, or, lord forbid, The Golden Girls. Score: 3 / 10

Following a series of strange deaths, a detective and a health officer investigating the deaths find the link to be caused through their logging onto a website haunted by the ghostly victim of a serial killer and race to stop him in order to end the rampage.Overall this one wasn't all that bad but did have a few glaring problems. Among the many problems here is the story itself is pretty weak, with the main point serving between the evil spirit and the website, as the film really has two separate plots that are put together in one of the most confusing ways possible. While the first half is a nicely drawn-up detective story about a possible killer virus, the later search for the website and its resident ghostly haunting is completely nonsensical and doesn't offer up much of anything really coherent about the connection. If the entire purpose is to find revenge on the perpetrator of her crime, which this one is certainly striving toward, then the need to haunt the website rather than go straight for the source utilizing the power of the internet seems like a waste by killing those who log on who have no connection to anything. It makes no sense at all, and only results in more split hairs trying to connect the dots of what was at stake by being so disjointed and completely out of sync. There are some rather nice moments here and there, though, that tend to make this enjoyable. The biggest plus here is that there's a couple of really decent suspense scenes along the way, from the opening in the subway station where one victim sees a young girl playing with her ball on the tracks as a train approaches, jumps down to the tracks to try to save her but disappears at the last second and he then tries to avoid the train by plastering himself against a wall. A later scene where a man goes out to his car only to find the young girl playing outside the car and it to then turn into a self-controlled vehicle that delivers a devastating crash nearby is rather enjoyable, and t he most inventive one is when a character becomes paranoid while walking up a stairwell and suddenly sees a small ball that then melts down into a ball of cockroaches that begin chasing her around the apartment in a truly creepy, frenzied scene. That all of these rather frenzied and chaotic scenes work is due to the nature of the ghosts throughout here which has a rather creepy vibe placed here that manages to overcome the somewhat obvious CGI nature of the effects and becomes quite enjoyable throughout getting that on display. Coupled with the intriguing premise and nice gore throughout here, these are enough to hold out but not to overcome the flaws.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence and Nudity.

OK what's up with all the bad feed back? This movie is awesome! It wasn't what I thought it would be but it still was a great movie! I highly recommend buying this. It's also cheap. But basically in a nutshell this movie is about a website that is controlled by a guy who torture his victims until they beg him to die. But I someone else wants revenge(his first victim). Who ever goes on Feardotcom has 48 hours of hallucinations of a little girl and when the clock strikes 48 hours the person dies by their worst FEAR! It was only 4 bucks and trust me it's worth it. But I pretty much like every horror movie. But you can trust me if there is a bad one. I'll be writing other reviews so piece out for now!

(Zero out of 3 found this review helpful...? Really...? Well then, YOU guys clearly have not seen William Malone's movies. What you need to do is most gingerly and carefully, take your head out of your own @ss, wash your face & hair, and watch 'HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL {1999} and 'PARASOMNIA' {2008} And then, if you don't like them, I will gladly put MY head up my own @ss...)(Do we have a deal...?)(Man, I'm getting WAY too snarky here - too much caffeine or Crack I think; or maybe putting too much caffeine IN my crack, I don't know...)Geez, what a way to start... Well, this film is honestly no 'HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL' or 'PARASOMNIA', but I truly felt that Malone did a fairly decent job with it. Look, maybe I'm a bit biased, but I would watch a frigg'n LEXUS commercial if Malone directed it! (Well, that MIGHT be pushing it just a bit... :) It's been a while since I've read about this film, but I THINK I remember that it was the usual MINDLESS producers interfering with Malone's 'vision', if you will, that likely watered down the effectiveness of 'What Could Have Been' with this movie (how MANY times have we heard that?) Even the MASTER Del Toro got his frigg'n nuts handed to him the first time around by the ever-so-brilliant Weinstein Brothers when he directed his first excellent U.S. film 'MIMIC' - THANKFULLY, with his current stature, he was able to go back and re-edit it, so it is even better now. Even the great, ESTABLISHED Terry Gilliam had a creative board shoved up his @ss by the Weinsteins on the very entertaining 'BROTHERS GRIMM', but it still turned out pretty good despite their meddling.Anyway, back to THIS film, sorry... PLEASE try to give this movie a decent chance. Because, despite the Studio's interference and it's flaws, I honestly feel that Malone was able to do a lot in the way of creating effective visuals and a fairly decent mood that makes the movie just good enough to enjoy...