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Actors: Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Fear Dot Com |
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A psychopath kidnaps women. Live, on the internet, he tortures them and then he kills them. Every person that visits his website, feardotcom.com, dies from their worst fears exactly 48 hours later. A cop and a scientist must find and stop the killer. With the help of a ghost the scientist finds one of the victim's body. They learn the killer's location. They arrive just in time to stop him from killing a woman. The killer kills the cop, but the scientist rescues the girl. The killer accidentally views his website and gets killed by the ghosts of his victims.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar
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This is a horrible and disturbing movie that I wouldn't recommend to anyone. It revolves around a psychopathic doctor who abducts young women and then tortures and kills them--online, while web surfers watch. The only problem is, once viewers go to the website, they die within a few days, and what they die from just happens to be their greatest fear--whatever that might be. For example, a man who is terrified of dying in a car accident does just that. A women who is extremely arachnophobic is driven to jump out of her high-rise window (to her death) to escape an invasion of bugs.
The two "good guys" of this movie, both involved in law enforcement/public safety, end up figuring out what's happening, however, they have to visit the website in order to find the doctor, who is holding a woman hostage, preparing to torture and kill her online.
--Mary Ann, Resident Scholar
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Detective Mike Reilly and Terry Huston inspect the mysterious deaths of 4 New Yorkers. The only thing they had in common was a visit to feardotcom.com. They also all died exactly 48 hours to the minute since they accessed the site. Mike and Terry view the site and have 48 hours to solve the mystery before they die of their worst fears.
--Dashaun Montanez, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Fear Dot Com |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- computer info
Horror film?
Yes
Horror Plotlets:
- mad guy with knife likes to slice
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- red
Hair style
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- average (woman)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- killer
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- fat (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
Misc setting
- sewers/subways
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 4 (a fair amount)
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- mental battles
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- fright
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
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