Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Aphex Nobody There is so much wrong with Feardotcom that it's hard to know where to start, but the most cardinal of sins that it commits is that it fails on pretty much every level to be even remotely scary or, indeed, horrific.Seasoned gore-hounds will find the sub-Event Horizon body horror blink-and-you'll-miss-it bondage gear montages laughably tame, whilst the completely incoherent script rob the film of any sort of atmosphere that could possibly rescue it from the celluloid scrap heap; really, the script is quite staggeringly bad - characters seem to communicate primarily through non-sequiturs, with the two leads seemingly falling in love (? - like so much in this picture, this is never particularly clear) via the single utterance "please don't go look at that site" only for the very next scene to be Stephen Dorff's cardboard cutout of Brad Pitt in Se7en doing exactly that. The site, so the story tells us, is something akin to the tape in The Ring; a cursed url that brings the unsuspecting viewer into contact with the spirit of a victim of Stephen Dorff's imaginatively-named serial killer, "The Doctor", given unlife by the collective energies of the internet (bear with me, this gets even less coherent) in order to exact revenge for her livestreamed torture-death by... killing anyone who watches it in 48 hours. Why this ghost, manifesting most often as a decidedly unfrightening little girl with ludicrous hair, is intent on murdering random people instead of the actual man who killed her is never adequately explained.Said victim, by the way, was a haemophiliac with a fear of knives, whose mother inexplicably alllowed her to play at an abandoned steel mill (which, you guessed it, is where "The Doctor" has taken his latest victim, a terminally stupid cinema usher who decided to go to a creepy abandoned theater because said creepy serial killer said he would cast her in a movie upon first interacting with her, with predictable results), and thus her method of supernatural murder is to kill people via their worst fears, causing them to stroke out and bleed profusely from the eyes.So we get Udo Kier hurling himself in front of a subway train for no apparent reason, a forensic programmer swarmed by poor CGI bugs hurling herself out of a window, a character introduced randomly then inexplicably translocated to the abandoned steel mill so that the ghost can spiritually drive his car into a wall, and lingering shots of a german student's corpses nipples after she apparently thought she was drowing in a bath tub. None of this is handled in any way scarily; we don't care about any of these characters, we are given no reason to care about them when the ghost unceremoniously offs them, and their deaths are so poorly-handled we care nothing for them afterwards.Anyway, back to the plot! Natasha McElhone's CDC investigator rushes to the psych ward where Stephen Dorff's detective has been - without explanation - committed, screams randomly at a nonplussed receptionist, is directed to his room, where he is in the throes of a fit that no doctors are present administering to. She recieves a phone call from the ghost, for some reason. I can't actually remember if this is before or after she herself visits the eponymous website for no apparent reason.She then goes to the abandoned steel mill in order to encounter the spoooooky blind old woman (who takes no further part in the plot in any way and is just hanging out in a run down industrial complex to be spooky to Natasha McElhone for some reason) and finds the corpse of the victim-cum-murder ghost. Yay! The haunting's over! ...Nope. Despite the movie outright yelling at us that this would end the haunting, it doesn't. Why? I don't know.Anyway, despite being the absolute worst detectives in the world, Dorff and McElhone finally track down "The Doctor" and rescue his latest victim, in the process Dorff gets offed and "The Doctor" gets Top Dollar from The Crow'd to death by the internet ghost. We end on McElhone, alone again, recieving a phone call. Is it Dorff? The Doctor? The Ghostly Victim Girl apologising for murdering the shit out of a bunch of random people?No! It's just the sound of static! What a fittingly stupid end to a 'horror' film in which the second most shocking thing present is the exposed nipples of a murder victim, and the first most shocking is the absolutely incomprehensibly bad script. Watch only if drunk and with friends, for some MST3K action, otherwise find something more productive and horrifying to do with your time like clip your toenails or grout the bathroom. Oh, and Jeffrey Coombs (the rather excellent Weyoun from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) is entirely wasted as Dorff's asshole partner who communicates almost solely through orphaned sentences that have no relevance to anything going on around him.An absolute stinker, and legtimately one of the worst horror films I've ever seen. I'd rather watch Manos: The Hands of Fate twice back-to-back than subject myself to this cinematic turd again.

pcarmona-87899 True. It has flaws beyond bad or anything known as bad within this dimension within time and space we live in. But you know what? For a film as bad as Alone In The Dark (AITD movie has a 1% on Rotten Tomatoes), it probably comes nowhere as near or even close. True, this movie is very bad and literally has a mixture of too much plot with absolutely no plot at all, has literally either too many clichés or beyond too many for that matter, the acting,writing, and screenplay is sometimes very,very,very poor for a movie that made on a "very unquestionable budget of $40M-42M dollars", and yes, in itself, this is a horror movie, like The Fog remake, that has really questionable quality, and that this movie is a rip-off of Se7en, The Ring (both the original Japanese 1998 movie and it's American remake which came out the year this one came out), Kairo, Videodrome, and last but not least, the 1998 movie Strangeland. But do you want to know something? For a movie that seems to have 0% genius, this movie is as if it were made by someone who was just maybe, just maybe a genius, during the silent era, or at least the German Expressionist era. I guess this movie does seem to at least have some genius. 4.0 would probably be a better rating for this on this site.

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.

TheLittleSongbird There was a good story somewhere in Feardotcom and the actors involved do have some halfway-decent talent. Plus the poster for the movie was great. It is such a shame that the execution was as bad as it turned out.The best thing about Feardotcom is Stephen Dorff, he was quite decent in his role. Gesine Cukrowski also brings a touch of creepiness to her role but is not in the movie anywhere near long enough to save it. The rest of the acting is terrible, with Udo Keir and Jeffrey Coombs completely wasted and to say that Natascha McElhone's atrocious here is being kind. Stephen Rea is a very anaemic villain and didn't seem very involved, this did hurt Feardotcom a lot because it focuses a fair bit on him(too much perhaps) and not enough on anyone else. And when the villain fails to grab you, that gives you an idea of how painfully underdeveloped and unconvincing all the characters were, some even came across as pointless.Story-wise, Feardotcom had a good idea going for it, but is let down by it being structured in a very jumpy and borderline incoherent way, a number of scenes where very little happens and went on too long and a complete lack of suspense scares or atmosphere. The music is little more than a stereotypically loud drone that crescendos in parts meant to be scary or suspenseful, which dilutes their impact and makes them predictable instead. The script is weak, structurally it's confused and it does little with giving personality to the characters, some of the dialogue is forced it's enough to make one cringe and induces unintentional humour in a number of places. The movie neither looks great or cheap, there was clearly effort into making it but it came across as the director/photographer trying too hard to please, some of it looks garish and blurry in alternative to clear and a lot of the camera work is incredibly random.Overall, not as bad as has been said here but a very bad movie all round apart from Dorff that wastes the potential that it had. 2/10 Bethany Cox