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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/feardotcom.jpg]]
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3	''[=FeardotCom=]'' is a 2002 American/Luxembourgian horror film directed by William Malone and starring Creator/StephenDorff, Creator/NataschaMcElhone and Creator/StephenRea, while Creator/UdoKier and Creator/JeffreyCombs appear in minor roles.
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5	Four dead bodies are found in [[BigApplesauce New York City]]. The coincidence? They all died 48 hours after logging on to a site named feardotcom.com. Tough homicide detective Mike Reilly (Dorff) teams up with Department of Health associate Terry Huston ([=McElhone=]) to research these mysterious deaths. But the only way to find out what really happened is to enter the site itself...
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8	!!Tropes applying to ''[=FeardotCom=]'':
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10	* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: At the end of the film, Terry gets a phone call with nothing but static. It's never revealed if this is Jeannie calling to "thank" her, or Mike trying to communicate with her]].
11	* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Pratt]].
12	* ColdBloodedTorture: What the website features.
13	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Technically, the website is called feardotcom.com.
14	* DisproportionateRetribution: The website will kill ''anyone'' who accesses it, regardless of their intent. Polidori and [[spoiler: Denise]] are both cursed simply for investigating the site. This is especially harsh, as the site is ''interactive'', and allows people to [[DeadPersonConversation directly communicate with Jeannie]] before cursing them.
15	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Denise]]. Their death confuses Mike at first because it ''doesn't'' fit the 48-hour pattern.
16	* ExplosiveOverclocking: The website destroys any computer that accesses it.
17	* HauntedTechnology: The website was hijacked by the ghost of one of the victims of Alistair Pratt.
18	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Pratt is killed after Mike shows him Jeannie's website, which happens to be the site Pratt used to broadcast Jeannie's torture and murder]].
19	* KickTheDog: Jeannie appears to Polidori as he's dying, first in her child form, then her ghost form. This is ''after'' he tried to save her child form from being hit by a train.
20	* MurderDotCom: The titular website, feardotcom.com.
21	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Polidori is killed trying to save Child!Jeannie from an oncoming train.
22	* OminousVisualGlitch:
23	** Whenever people click on the site, it first manifests as a dark blot spreading across the screen.
24	** [[spoiler: At the end of the film, when Jeannie traps Pratt's soul in {{Cyberspace}}, it's shown as a [[DeliberatelyMonochrome sepia]] version of reality which is constantly glitching and shimmering]].
25	* RiddleForTheAges: [[spoiler: It's never revealed why Terry gets a phone call at the end]].
26	* SerialKiller / DeadlyDoctor: Alistair "The Doctor" Pratt.
27	* ShoutOut:
28	** The underwater sequence where Terry [[spoiler: finds Jeannie's body in a flooded steel mill]] is clearly inspired by ''[[Film/Inferno1980 Inferno]]''.
29	** Jeannie's child form, a little girl with platinum blonde hair and a white ball, is taken directly from ''[[Film/SpiritsOfTheDead Toby Dammit]]''.
30	* TooDumbToLive: The man who goes directly into the path of the subway train.
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