First off, I heard this movie was horrible so I had pretty low expectations. The movie has a lot of similarities to the American version of "Ring", except Feardotcom's plot is ultimately incomprehensible, even though its cinematography's a lot more interesting. The female lead's acting is wooden and was infinitely more cringe worthy than the homicides in the film. The other acting is passable. Movie is slow-moving and goes in too many directions. This movie is surprisingly low on gore, but has a high squirm factor, with its torture scenes. It definitely needed several more script rewrites as it follows every horror movie cliche but still doesn't make sense at the end. You could navigate the Titanic through some of this movie's plotholes. An epilogue would be nice, too. But seeing as many horror movies forgo this, that was definitely not unforgivable. The movie's atmosphere, which was created by some great camerawork and visuals, is what sells this film. At times the camerawork, blocking and shots were reminiscent of the exorcist, chinatown, and seven. Sure, most of the good shots were "borrowed" in their entirety, but if you're going to do something, do it right. Not a bad movie, not a good movie, but a decidedly mediocre one with a very poor script and one wooden lead. If you're a horror genre buff or want to see some pretty quirky cinematography you might want to rent it, or better yet watch it when it's on cable TV. Otherwise, you should probably avoid this.
Review of Feardotcom
