feardotcom Critic Reviews

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Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

Strange, how good feardotcom is, and how bad. The screenplay is a mess, and yet the visuals are so creative this is one of the rare bad films you might actually want to see.Read the full review

Variety | Scott FoundasAdd Critic to Favorites

Never quite realizes its potential to evoke the real horror of the Internet -- Yet, Malone has given the film a distinctive atmosphere and occasional flashes of his perverse sense of humor.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

The film squanders every opportunity (and international-coproduction cent) on by now imitative Nine Inch Nails-video-style visual Goth-goo, and, scarily, forgets to input a plot or script that makes any sense.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan RabinAdd Critic to Favorites

Made with just enough craft to keep it from being the instantly dated camp howler its title promises, but it's quickly apparent that there's no thought or originality under its grim, familiar surface.Read the full review

Washington Post | Ann HornadayAdd Critic to Favorites

A depraved, incoherent, instantly disposable piece of hackery.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Manohla DargisAdd Critic to Favorites

The story leapfrogs abruptly from scene to scene, and it makes such a mockery of narrative logic and continuity that the cast tends to look either baffled (Dorff) or as if they're trying to remain unrecognized.Read the full review

The New York Times | Stephen HoldenAdd Critic to Favorites

It is painful to watch an actor as skillful as Mr. Dorff reduced to delivering flat repetitive dialogue that would make any actor look foolish.Read the full review

Wall Street Journal | Collin LeveyAdd Critic to Favorites

For the most part, the movie serves up an incomprehensible collage of high-tech voyeurism sprinkled with every hackneyed creep-out trick in the book -- from eerie little ghost girls to melting walls and scurrying cockroaches.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites

The film is a failure in just about every way, save for its acting, which is adequate.Read the full review

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