FearDotCom (2002)

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

The idea behind this film is very interesting, a deep website that makes people go crazy with a sinister background and development to it. This film could have created such a great story line which could have carried on for a sequel but instead it was a complete flop. The main protagonist was quite good and tried his best to act the role whereas all of the other actors were clearly very bad and cheap. Rather than just trying to create a shock factor ending it should have been a story ridden climax or cliffhanger to the story rather than just a stupid ending that doesn't make any sense. If you are considering watching this film don't!

To be honest, I was hopeful about this film. Some good scares at the beginning. Then the plot was definitely lost!The final straw for me came when we were reliably informed that the little blonde girl had been a haemophiliac. Newsflash.....only BOYS can be haemophiliacs. Total rubbish!

(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...

Maybe it's because I'm 62 years old and have seen lots of real horror in my life, but this movie was beyond boring. The usual staccato light shows that are supposed to add 'layer upon layer' of images to create a terrifying effect do nothing more than get me dizzy at which point my attention also wanes. The effect they were trying for? This definitely wasn't it. Fear is a basic human emotion, and it peaks when it involves those things we are most familiar with and that suddenly take a wrong turn. If a movie doesn't call for our imaginative participation, it falls flat, like this one did. If the setting had been some average kid's room instead of a dismal otherworldly big-city mausoleum of a flat, that might have helped. But there's just too much wrong with this movie for anyone to bother with it.