FeardotCom
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| Directed by | William Malone |
| Produced by | Limor Diamant Moshe Diamant Jean-Marc Félio |
| Written by | Moshe Diamant Josephine Coyle |
| Starring |
Stephen Dorff Natascha McElhone Stephen Rea |
| Music by | Nicholas Pike |
| Cinematography | Christian Sebaldt |
| Edited by | Alan Strachan |
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Production
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MDP Worldwide
ApolloMedia Fear.Com Productions Ltd. Carousel Film Company Film Fund Luxembourg DoRo Fiction Film GmbH Filmyard Underwaterdeco Franchise Pictures Luxembourg Film Fund Milagro Films Signature Pictures |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time
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101 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom Germany Luxembourg United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $40 million |
| Box office | $18.9 million |
FeardotCom is a 2002 American horror film directed by William Malone and starring Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone and Stephen Rea. The plot details a New York City detective investigating a series of mysterious deaths connected to a disturbing website.
Shot on location in Luxembourg, the film was released in mid-2002 and received extremely negative reviews from critics and was a box office failure, grossing only $18,902,015 against its $40 million budget.
Mike Black Reilly (Stephen Dorff) is an NYPD detective who is called to the scene of a mysterious death in the subway system. The victim, Polidori (Udo Kier), exhibits bleeding from his eyes and other orifices and, by the frozen look on his face, appears to have seen something horrifying before being hit by a train.
Department of Health researcher Terry Huston (Natascha McElhone) is intrigued by the find as well, particularly when several more victims show up with identical symptoms.
When a contagious virus is ruled out, Terry and Mike team up to discover what might be killing these people. Initially they are unable to find anything to connect the deaths together; after some more digging for clues, they eventually discover that all of the victims' computers crashed shortly before their passings. They send each of the victims' hard drives to Mike's friend, Denise Stone (Amelia Curtis), who is a forensic specialist.
Denise discovers that all of the victims had visited a website called Feardotcom, which depicts voyeuristic torture murder. Upon looking at the site herself, Denise is subjected to various sights and sounds of torture that eventually drive her crazy and result in her falling to her death from her apartment window.
Mike feels guilty, thinking that he should have never gotten Denise involved in the case. Terry figures out that people who visit the website die within 48 hours, apparently from what they feared most in their lives. Despite such dangerous knowledge, both she and Mike visit the site in order to figure out what is happening.
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