When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City, brash young detective Mike Reilly teams with ambitious Department of Health researcher Terry Huston to uncover the cause behind their violent and inexplicable deaths. The only common factor shared by the victims? Each died exactly 48 hours after logging onto a website called feardotcom.
Production
Gross-out practical effects that aged like milk on purpose.
Direction
William Malone commits to every unhinged choice.
Director
William Malone
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The actual domain feardotcom.com was registered and used for marketing; visitors saw creepy imagery and a countdown, mirroring the film's cursed site.
Released alongside The Ring, this box office bomb represents Hollywood's panicked attempt to make 'the internet' scary before broadband made that laughable.
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