This is a film is no good and should be shunned and ignored. It cannot be enjoyed, even on the level that one enjoys a bad slasher flick, primarily because it is DULL and boring.  The acting is wooden and the story is random and senseless.

The director, William Malone, is the same man who gave us "The House on Haunted Hill" in 1999. That movie, while by no means the greatest film, at least had some effectively creepy images and gigglishly scary moments. In this movie he tries to use the same camera and editing tricks, but it has none of the impact or style that is needed. It is full of loud sounds and devilish fury and registers nada on the Creep-o-meter.

Bored New York detective Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff--yawn--) is working a case where people have been turning up dead with weird hemorrhaging around the eyes. They think it's a virus, but boring Department of Health worker Terry Houston (Natascha McElhone) says it's not, though she sounds so bored when she says it, I can't believe she feels very strongly one way or the other.

They figure out all the dead people had visited a particular Web site exactly 48 hours earlier, and that they died according to their worst fears. How they figured this out is still puzzling to me..

The Web site in question is www.feardotcom.com, and it is run by a crazy man called The Doctor (Stephen Rea --who just wastes his creepy talents here ). He was the suspect of Mike's one unsolved case, and now he kidnaps women and tortures and kills them live on the Internet. Mike even knows the guy's real name, yet he could never capture him. Now, the madman runs a Web site, yet apparently no one can trace it and figure out where it's coming from.

There is also a woman who is tied into the website. some strange blonde who really was never understood ( or explained well ) in the movie. So all in all it seems the people who visit the torture Web site, die as a consequence of enjoying watching death. "FearDotCom" is telling the people who would watch and enjoy "FearDotCom" that they shouldn't. And I agree. You shouldn't watch this movie -- not for mortal  or moral reasons, but because it sucks.