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Feardotcom

Feardotcom is a film so undeniably UNscary, I don’t even think a group of Amish people would get the willies. That is all that really needs to be said about a film that is not awful or amateurish, but deadly dull. However, in case I haven’t warned you sufficiently how bad you’ll feel after shelling out $9.00 to see this film, I will continue: The plot involves a website run by a doctor (Stephen Rea) who tortures and kills women online. Anyone who logs on to his site is dead within 48 hours, which leads to a bit of a health crisis for the cop (Stephen Dorff) and the doctor (Natasha McElhone) who have to stop the killing.

This is not a bad premise for a film. In fact, you will see something similar in October when Dreamworks rolls out The Ring, a film based on a Japanese film of the same name. The problem with this film is that it has no reason to exist. It can’t be to make money, because no one is going to watch this. It’s boring. Nothing makes sense. The performances are nonexistent. The cheesy effects are ripped off from better movies, and the extras are made to look like performers in an old Marilyn Manson video. The film even wants us to believe that Germany and Prague, where the film was shot, can actually double for New York. Who are these people kidding? In the end, the only thing frightening about Feardotcom is that it was actually made at all.

Submitted 07 September 02. Posted 14 September 02.

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