10 Movies That Show The Dark And Evil Side Of Social Media

5. Fear Dot Com (2002)

Released in 2002 and directed by horror filmmaker William Malone, Fear Dot Com throws New York City into a permanent night storm for its duration. The movie focuses on an NYPD officer's investigation into a website that is killing anyone who visits it within a 48 hour time frame. Assisted by a researcher at the Department of Health, detective Mike Reilly deduces that the malicious domain name is linked to a prominent serial killer who has evaded the FBI for years. After deciding to visit the site themselves, the two leads become immersed in a supernatural world of pure evil. What's Dark About It? Using its already dark (albeit ridiculous) premise about a website that kills people, Fear Dot Com does its best to work in anything that anyone might find disturbing or offensive; including murder, torture, sexual violence, and voyeurism of all of the above. Lighting is kept to a bare minimum in Fear Dot Com too, meaning that the movie is also quite literally dark for pretty much its entire running period. Is It Any Good? God, no. There are faint murmurs of a competent horror film lurking around in here somewhere, but overall Fear Dot Com is an incoherent mess, containing an overstuffed abundance of scrambled imagery and an equally scrambled screenplay. It's difficult to justify this level of gratuitous violence in a capable movie, never mind in one like Fear Dot Com, which ultimately comes across as vicious and sadistic for no discernible purpose.