I wasn't exactly spooked by this C-rate ghost story, because I was too busy trying to figure out the utterly incomprehensible plot. Let's just forget for a second that the main subject of the movie (a Web site that kills you 48 hours after you access it) is ripped straight out of the far creepier Ring films. What else is left includes a Hannibal Lector-esque serial killer named The Doctor (ooh, how scawy), some very silly mumbo jumbo about how the Internet can store negative/positive energy, and a couple of uninteresting detectives who are so thick headed that they actually visit the site that could supposedly kill them. Oh, and apparently www.feardotcom.com (which is a pretty dumb title) whacks its visitors with their greatest fears. One victim drowns, another winds up in a car crash, etc. There is also an ominous looking little girl that only slightly reminded me of the ominous looking little girl from THE RING. My biggest complaint about this movie, however, is that half the time I couldn't even see what was going on because everything is shot so dark and muddy. Seriously, there were times when the screen was just pitch black with dialogue and sound effects. In the end, however, it wasn't as Good Bad as much as it was Boring Bad, kind of like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I just liked pointing out the many dorky cliches littered throughout the running time, like how one of the detectives, at a loss for clues, simply goes through some video footage frame by frame and (not so surprisingly) finds something Strange and Spooky-Ooky. 1/4 stars
Review of Feardotcom
