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-Stephen
Dorff
FEAR.COM
just
may
be
the
cure
for
the
common
addiction
to
surfing
the
net.
Leave
it
to
William
Malone,
the
director
of
the
relentlessly
mortifying
HOUSE
ON
HAUNTED
HILL
to
take
a
scary
situation
and
make
it
infinitely
worse.
This
time
it's
not
the
house
that's
haunted,
it's
the
computer,
and
it
is
actually
killing
people
too.
Stephen
Dorff
and
Natasha
McElhone
play
two
insipid
but
earnest
cops
on
the
trail
of a
virtual
murder
suspect,
while
the
deeply
unsettling
Stephen
Rea
is a
torture
fiend
who
lures
bafflingly
dim-witted
women
into
the
most
horrifying
locations
he
can
find
and
gets
it
all
on
tape.
FEAR.COM
borrows
the
noirish
overtones
of
David
Fincher's
SEVEN,
the
graphic
imagery
of
Tarsem
Singh's
THE
CELL
and
some
of
the
so-called
realistic,
handheld
video
techniques
of
the
first
BLAIR
WITCH.
There
are
many
promising
combinations
of
psychological
imagery
here,
suggesting
Malone
may
be
hitting
his
stride
after
successfully
breaking
free
of
the
Hollywood
haunted
house
domain.
FEAR.COM
is
not
for
the
faint
of
heart
(though
HOUSE
ON
HAUNTED
HILL
was
arguably
more
violent
and
disturbing).
If
you
love
a
good
horror
flick
there
are
a
few
serious
freak-outs
here
you
simply
would
not
want
to
miss.
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