Review - Feardotcom

The year is young as I review this movie (the second day of February), but thus far this is the current odds-on favorite for Best Concept Turned Into Worst Movie. The premise here is that there’s a torture-and-snuff video site on the Internet and anyone who signs onto it ends up dead within 48 hours. Even the supporting material wasn’t too bad, including several Felini-esque nightmare hallucinations experienced by those condemned to death by their curiosity. But the devil here lies in the delivery. I enjoyed the bizarre hallucination/nightmare sequences in director William Malone’s earlier outing, House on Haunted Hill. But I didn’t like them enough to want to sit through an entire movie composed of almost nothing but. There’s a good effect here and there, but nothing that actually justifies the rental price. See if desperate