FearDotCom (2002)

Country of Origin: UK / Germany / Luxembourg / USA
Year of Production: 2001
Running Times:
Format: black and white     35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: ApolloMedia / Carousel Picture Company S.A. / Fear.Com Productions Ltd. / Milagro Films / Neverland Pictures
Executive Producers: Rudy Cohen, Mark Damon, Frank Hübner, David Saunders, Romain Schroeder
Producers: Limor Diamant, Moshe Diamant, Jan Fantl
Producer (Canada): Jean-Marc Félio
Line Producer: Yoram Barzilai
Unit Production Manager: Marc Grewe
Production Coordinator: Kerstin Dyroff
Assistant Production Coordinator: Annick Lockman

SCRIPT
Script: Josephine Coyle

DIRECTION
Director: William Malone
1st Assistant Director: Charlie Watson
2nd Assistant Director: Suzanne Nicell

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Christian Sebaldt
Gaffer: John Donoghue

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Post Production Supervisor: Christopher P. Kibbey

MUSIC
Trainee Music Editor: Owen Bartholomew

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Carlo Thoss
Boom Operator: Dirk Bombey
Cable Man: Eric Jean Francois

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Key Make Up: Zoltan Elek
Hair and Make Up Assistant: Claudine Moureaud

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Prosthetic Painter: Andrew Brown
Mould Maker: Sophie Tarver

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Cinesite Digital Laboratory; DoRo Film GmbH
Visual Effects Supervisors: Tim McGovern, Frank Wegerhoff
Visual Effects Supervisor Assistant: Melanie Göggelmann
Visual Effects Producer: Stephen Elson
Visual Effects Producer Assistant: Philip Hahn
Character Technical Director: Derek Flood
Visual Effects Editor: Daryl Jordan
Effects Animators: Tim Ketzer, Nir Loewenberg
Technical Director: Alexander Nowotny

DIGITAL EFFECTS
Digital Effects: Hypnosis VFX Ltd
CG Supervisor: Gunter Puszkar
Head of 3D: David Hofmann
3D Artist: Christof Kasper
Inferno Artist: Nastuh Abootalebi
Shake Artists: Andreas Beck, Peter Connelly, Paul Poetsch, Abraham Schneider
Domino Artist: Peter Connelly
Computer Graphics Art Director: Stephan Klotz
Head of Scanning / Recording: Matthias Scharfenberg
Scanning / Recording Assistants: Mark Dollery, Gerhard Spring
System Administration: Roger Beck, Martin Markert

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Jérôme Latour
Art Directors: Regine Freise, Markus Wollersheim
Art Director (Canada): Richard Tassé
Set Decorator: Mona Kino
Additional Set Decorator: Michaela Quast
Prop Master: Paul Purdy
Prop Makers: Hugh Fottrell, Toby Hawkes
Prop Buyers: Francois Dickes, Jan Rott
Assistant Prop Buyer: Stephane Bonato
Standby Props: Manu Demoulling
Standby Props Assistant: Lucillo Goncalves
Dressing Props: Jose Mendes, Annette "Gogo" Gollnski, Frank Lehen, Brian Davis, Harvey Perez
Dressing Props: Svet Hrouchoff
Standby Carpenter: Klaus Bienen
Head Painter / Scenic Artist: Sulamith Ater
Art Department Coordinator: Frank Godt
Storyboard Artists: Dermot Power, Tom Findrik
Illustrator: Dermot Power
Concept Artist: Igor-Alban Chevalier "The Black Frog"
Draftsmen: Makus Wollersheim, Manfred Dittrich, Irene Piel
Art Department Trainee: Joe Kotroczo
Sculpturiste: Georgina Johnson
Swing Gang: Jens Muller, Uwe Stechhan

MISCELLANEOUS
Assistant Accountants: Kristjan Hardarson, Laurence Parker
Post Production Accountant: Kristjan Hardarson
Assistant to Producer: Chani Anderson
Assistant to Director: Mascha Litterscheid
Facilities Coordinator: Gus Gouldsbrough
Driver: Svet Hrouchoff

LOCATIONS
Locations: Dommeldange, Luxembourg; Montréal, Québec, Canada
Location Manager: Philip James Morgan
Assistant Location Manager: Stephane Wasila

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Xin-Xin Xiong
Stunts: Wing Kin Yip, Vanessa Widuwilt, Babetta Schimanek, Nicolas De Pruyssenaere, Nathalie Girard, Stephane Lefebvre
Action Car Coordinator: Olivier Printz

CAST
Stephen Dorff (Mike Reilly)
Natascha McElhone (Terry Houston)
Stephen Rea (Alistair Pratt)
Udo Kier (Polidori)
Amelia Curtis (Denise)
Jeffrey Combs (Styles)
Nigel Terry (Turnbull)
Gesine Cukrowski (Jeannine)
Michael Sarrazin (Frank Bryant)
Jana Güttgemanns (little girl)
Anna Thalbach (Kate)
Siobhan Flynn (Thana Brinkman)
Evie Garratt (albino woman)
Lex Kreps (tenant)
Joan McBride (Mrs Richardson)
Isabelle Van Waes (victim)
Derek Kueter (officer 1)
Elizabeth McKechnie (Alice Turnbull)
Arnita Swanson (Barlow)
Gordon Peters (Rooney)
Nils Brunkhorst (prisoner)
Sven Pippig (Henry)
Anja Van Greuningen (Ashley)
Anjelika Khromova (Ashley's mother)
Sigal Diamant (nurse)
Matthias Schweighöfer (Dieter Schrader)
Birthe Wolter (Nina Blank)
Frances Potasnik (nurse #1)
Mascha Litterscheid (nurse #2)
Dean Gregory (maintenance man #1)
Chris Bearne (warehouse attendant)
Emma Campbell (goth-chick)
Kwasi Songhi (young detective)
Astrid Skuyat (Alistair's victim)

PLOT SUMMARY

New York Detective Mike Reilly and Department of Health researcher Terry Huston team up to investigate a series of strange killings. The only thing that links the victims is that they all dies 48 hours after visiting the feardot.com website. Reilly logs onto the site and, with just 48 hours before his own death, the race is on to discover the truth.

International
Theatrical Distributors: MDP Worldwide Entertainment Inc; Columbia Pictures

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Bros.

USA
Rating: R (for violence including grizzly images of torture, nudity and language)

TIMELINE

2002
May
10: USA - second suggested release date, but delayed

August
9: South Korea - theatrical release
30: USA - theatrical release

September
27: USA - first suggested release date, but delayed

Fear.com - early title

LINKS

SEE ALSO
Kairo (2001)

MAGAZINES

Fangoria no.212 (May 2002) pp.30-33 (USA)
illustrated interview with William Malone (Feardotcom: Plug In, Log On, Die Off)

serial killers, internet, computers, websites, police, new york