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20 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertStrange, how good feardotcom is, and how bad. The screenplay is a mess, and yet the visuals are so creative this is one of the rare bad films you might actually want to see.
- 40New Times (L.A.)Luke Y. ThompsonNew Times (L.A.)Luke Y. ThompsonIf sudden loud noises, relentless strobe lights, digital hallucinations and mutilated corpses make you jump, and you feel that nothing more is required for a good time at the movies, welcome to Feardotcom.
- 40VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasNever quite realizes its potential to evoke the real horror of the Internet -- Yet, Malone has given the film a distinctive atmosphere and occasional flashes of his perverse sense of humor.
- 30TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThere's a germ of an interesting idea here, but it's smothered by gloomy cinematography a la "Seven" (1995) and grating implausibilities, like the fact that everyone lives in the kind of cavernous, dankly art-directed dumps that only internet millionaires and trust fund twinkies can afford in the real New York.
- 25New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickA low-rent, slow-witted horror flick notable chiefly for its hilariously unsuccessful attempt to pass off Luxembourg City as New York City.
- 25New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardThe story is a mess, some of the images offensive, the acting under par and the dialogue silly.
- 20The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinMade with just enough craft to keep it from being the instantly dated camp howler its title promises, but it's quickly apparent that there's no thought or originality under its grim, familiar surface.
- 10Film ThreatFilm ThreatThis movie is plain stupid from the get go, but at least it looks good.
- 10Los Angeles TimesManohla DargisLos Angeles TimesManohla DargisThe story leapfrogs abruptly from scene to scene, and it makes such a mockery of narrative logic and continuity that the cast tends to look either baffled (Dorff) or as if they're trying to remain unrecognized.
- 10L.A. WeeklyErnest HardyL.A. WeeklyErnest HardyThe film, whose clumsy editing and dearth of establishing shots keep the viewer in an unintended state of confusion, is a corpse in its own right: It’s filled with the rotting ideas of far better movies.