FeardotCom
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 FeardotCom film poster |
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| Directed by | William Malone |
| Written by | Moshe Diamant Josephine Coyle |
| Starring | Stephen Dorff Natascha McElhone Stephen Rea |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. (USA) Sony Pictures Releasing (non-USA) |
| Release date(s) | August 30, 2002 |
| Running time | 101 min. |
| Country | UK / Luxembourg / Germany |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ~ US$42,000,000 |
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FeardotCom is a 2002 horror film directed by William Malone.
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[edit] Cast
- Stephen Dorff – Detective Mike Reilly
- Natascha McElhone – Terry Huston
- Stephen Rea – Alistair Pratt
- Udo Kier – Polidori
- Amelia Curtis – Denise Stone
- Jeffrey Combs – Sykes
[edit] Plot
Four people died mysteriously in New York City and the only connection is the fact that all of them died within 48 hours of logging on to "feardotcom.com", a website that depicts voyeuristic torture murder.
Detective Mike Reilly teams up with Steve Gouin, a Department of Health researcher, to uncover the cause behind the unexplained deaths. They discover that it is evil, vengeful spirits. Steve Gouin eventually gets really scared and decides he cannot help with the case. Later on he logs onto the website and dies a gruesome death.
[edit] Tagline
- Tagline: Feardot.com.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Criticism
The movie was often criticized for its lack of originality. It is often said to be too derivative of The Ring even though it premiered a few weeks earlier. The premise is also very similar to that of Japanese film Kairo, released in 2001, and David Cronenberg's Videodrome.
[edit] Trivia
An excerpt of Rammstein's song Sonne, was used when the psychopathic torturist abducted an unsuspecting aspiring actress.
