FearDotCom

Like ''The Ring'' (released two weeks ago), this movie is also based on a Japanese horror movie (also named ''The Ring''). Instead of a video tape, the source of evil in this case is a web site. Anyone visiting the web site dies mysteriously 48 hours later, usually in the way they most feared dying. A young detective, frustrated by his inability to catch a serial killer, teams up with a researcher to solve four recent accidental deaths, which they learn are connected by the web site. The detective decides to log onto the site, leaving them with only 48 hours to solve the problem.

95 minutes.
No persons under 18 .
Mystery, Horror, Thriller

The internet is such a dangerous place these days...

Credits

Cast	Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea, Udo Kier, Amelia Curtis
Director	William Malone
Screenplay	Josephine Coyle, Moshe Diamant
Music	Nicholas Pike
Cinematography	Christian Sebaldt
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Made in	2002
Produced by	A consortium of USA, Canadian, German and Luxembourg companies

Official Site

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
The Moviesite Ian Douglas	1
Cape Argus Derek Wilson	1
The Star	4
Die Burger Gottfried Maas	5
Tygerburger Mariana Malan	5
Sunday Times Barry Ronge	5
Rapport Barrie Hough	14
Total Movie Sue Mitchell	15
eye Weekly Adam Nayman	1
Box Office Tim Cogshell	5
What the People say
Internet 1122 Netizens	7
Average .. 29%	6

Visitor Comments

Ian Douglas: Geez, what a confused mish mash. Towards the end, all logic (even by Hollywood standards) flies out the window and is replaced by a bizarre collage of images. Hollywood is starting to get a clue about how computers work, but is all at sea regarding the Net (ever heard of DNS and traceroute?), and especially, bandwidth issues. This miseducation is not helping. The real problem with this movie is the script, which seems to have left out bits, apart from having serious logic flaws and no idea of how to resolve the story.

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FearDotCom

Credits

Ratings

What the Critics say

What the People say

Average .. 29%

Visitor Comments