FeardotCom

Infobox Film
name = FeardotCom

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caption = "FeardotCom" film poster
director = William Malone
producer =
writer = Moshe Diamant Josephine Coyle
starring = Stephen Dorff Natascha McElhone Stephen Rea
distributor = Warner Bros. (USA) Sony Pictures Releasing (non-USA)
released = August 30, 2002
runtime = 101 min.
language = English
budget = ~ US$42,000,000
music =
awards =
country = UK / Luxembourg / Germany
amg_id = 1:261806
imdb_id = 0295254

"FeardotCom" is a 2002 horror film directed by William Malone.

Cast

*Stephen Dorff – Detective Mike Reilly
*Natascha McElhone – Terry Huston
*Stephen Rea – Alistair Pratt
*Udo Kier – Polidori
*Amelia Curtis – Denise Stone
*Jeffrey Combs – Sykes

Plot

When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City, brash young detective Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff) teams with ambitious Department of Health researcher Terry Huston (Natascha McElhone) to uncover the cause behind their violent and inexplicable deaths. The only common factor shared by the victims? Each died exactly 48 hours after logging on to "feardotcom.com", a website that depicts voyeuristic torture murder. Determined to confront and destroy the evil force behind the deadly site, Mike logs on and the clock starts ticking. Now he's got 48 hours to face his own worst fears and solve the mystery, or suffer the fate of the victims before him.

Together with Terry, he delves deep into a forbidden universe of contaminated souls and shocking imagery, each step bringing them closer to the horrifying counter-reality of feardot.com - and a life-and-death confrontation with Alistair Pratt (Stephen Rea), a sadistic murderer who has eluded Mike and the FBI for years. What they discover is as mystifying as the deaths themselves and more terrifying than anything they ever dreamed.

Awards and nominations

It won the "Worst Film" at the 2003 Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards and "Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver" at 2003 Fantafestival.

It was nominated for "Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Gold" at the 2004 Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival and "Best Film" at the 2002 Catalonian International Film Festival.

Criticism

This movie was often criticized for its lack of originality. It is often said to be too derivative of "The Ring" (even though The Ring premiered a few weeks after this movie. Of course, The Ring was a remake of a previously produced Japanese horror film.) The premise is also very similar to that of Japanese film "Kairo", released in 2001, and David Cronenberg's "Videodrome".

Trivia

An excerpt of Rammstein's song Sonne, was used when the psychopathic torturist abducted an unsuspecting aspiring actress.

ee also

*"Red Room"

External links

* [http://feardotcom.warnerbros.com Official site]
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