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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. |
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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. |
31 | %%* UnfinishedBusiness |
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