Fear dot crap

This is one of those movies that isn't supposed to be funny but is. The premise is this: a psychopathic doctor tortures and kills young women, then broadcasts it over the Internet. In a quest for revenge, the soul of a woman he murdered has taken to living through a site called fear.com.\nUnfortunately, this Internet soul woman has also taken to making people die from their worst fears. A cop and some other government-type (the character's actual relevance is a riddle -- she is supposed to be the heroine, but the actress is cleverly disguised as someone we wish had been in retail instead of acting) spend the majority of the movie trying to stop the cyber-ghost.\nThe movie is so awful that it's tempting to give away the ending, but in case you have a penchant for horror films that take themselves far too seriously, I will refrain. You know how at the end of lottery commercials someone tells you rapidly that the lottery is for fun only and not to be used for investment purposes? This movie is the same. By the end of the film, I was sure there was going to be a disclaimer like, "This movie is for amusement purposes only, not to be used for insight, personal growth or mental stimulation of any kind."\nAlthough there were a few genuinely creepy moments, "Feardotcom" was overwhelmed by the unnecessarily bad acting of Stephen Dorff and Natascha McElhone, who were both completely flat. \nIt's almost worth seeing this movie just to hear parts of the awful script, such as, "Oh that's the steel mill. Little Jeanie played there all the time as a child," spoken in all seriousness by a mother about her murdered daughter. I could be wrong, but most children I know don't make habits of playing in enormous, scary, deserted factories full of pointy, rusty, ominous looking things.\nOverall, some of the special effects are visually interesting, and the movie has some potential as a psychological thriller. But the psycho wasn't all that scary, and the director seemed much more interested in filming the victim's breasts than anything relevant to the torture scenes. In other words, if your options are spending $8 on this movie or a Mexican jumping bean, I'd go for the bean… you'll get more out of it.