Originally intended for Zalman King? The director of Blue Sunshine? Damn, why could that have not worked out?
FeardotCom has been an oft referenced film on this blog, one of which I have always wanted to see. I love this little subgenre, niche, whatever you want to call it, where a new technology comes out and that is the focus of the terror. I mean, is not Slenderman a somewhat recent, somewhat example of this? Social media used as the source of the scares.
FeardotCom stars Stephen Dorff, Natasha McElhone, Jeffrey Combs and Stephen Rea is the story of a ghostly evil website where people go to and witness live kills... Or something. Its at least implied that's what they're doing on the website, never definitely shown, and sometimes it just seems as though you click around and then you are doomed to die in 48 hours. Detectives Dorff and McElhone investigate, and we go from there.
This movie was not the obnoxiously stupid movie I wanted it to be, it got kinda close, but it was too boring and slow. I wanted a gloriously early 2000s idiot-fest full of awful CGI, jargon talk about the internet, and nu metal. But this is too plot driven with too many boring investigation scenes. Again, this reminds me of the middle of the Hellraiser run. I mean, literally replace the girl on the website with Pinhead and this movie is that. They never do explain how the girl on the website would know the characters names, but obviously we know Pinhead would know that.
FeardotCom does have the hilarous website of FeardotCom.com in the movie, likely because the actual fear.com was taken. So it is fucking stupid, and just not fun stupid. Which means it gets like a 2.
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