Just
exactly how secure is your server? FEAR.COM 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, a la snuff films.
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! Note: This is an
extremely violent, bloody, gory, upsetting, and
frightening film. There are many images, including
close-ups, of people being sadistically tortured. There
are many images of corpses in various states of decay,
gore, dismemberment, and/or autopsy. At one point a
woman reaches into a decaying corpses and pulls out some
objects. Moderate body count: one man hit by a subway,
another flies through a windshield during a car crash,
another jumps from a high window (the only death without
blood), another is impaled on a hook, one by drowning,
and several are shot. We see blood oozing (sometimes
pouring) from peoples’ eyes, noses, and mouths. Large
bugs attack people, burrowing inside their skin, even
coming out of mouths!! |
- Attractive Retail Box
- Genre: Horror, Thriller
- Rating:
R (MPAA)
- Rating Reason:
For Violence Including Grisly
Images of Torture, Nudity, and Language.
- Starring:
Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea
- Directed By:
William Malone
- Release Information:
- Studio: Warner Home Video
- Theatrical Release Date: August 30,
2002
- DVD Release Date: January 14, 2003
- Run Time: 101 minutes
- Production Company: Warner Home
Video
- Package Type: Snap Case
- Dual Layer Format
- DVD Features:
- Encoding:
Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only).
This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other
countries.
- Aspect Ratio(s):
- Widescreen anamorphic - 2.35:1
- Available Audio Tracks:
- English (Dolby Digital 5.1
Surround)
- French (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround)
- Available Subtitles: English,
French and
Spanish
- Language:
English
- Dubbed:
French (Dubbed in Quebec)
- Closed Captioned:
Yes
- Bonus Features:
- Feature-Length Commentary by Director
William Malone and Director of Photography Christian
Sebaldt
- Never-Before-Seen
Additional Scene, The Mushroom Factory
- Experience
feardotcom:
Vision of Fear featurette
- Visit the "Fear
Gallery" of Production Stills....if you
Dare!
- Star/Director/Writer Film
Highlights
- Enhanced Features for your DVD-ROM
PC*
- Interactive Features:
- Scene Access
- Interactive Menus
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