By EWAN McDONALD
(Herald rating: * *)
Downloaded your patch for the Blaster? Log on to feardotcom.com, a website where mad Dr Alistair Pratt (Stephen Rea) slices up naked women for the enjoyment of online viewers. A detective (Stephen Dorff) and Health Department official (Natascha McElhone
) find the site and manage to
join the dotcoms to the doctor's victims and an outbreak of supernatural incidents.
It's all silly and all similar to the horror flick The Ring, and you won't be surprised to hear that it went straight to video ... or rather, DVD, because there are a whole bunch of techno-horror extras on the disc.
They include a commentary by director William Malone and director of photography Christian Sebaldt; FearDotCom: Visions of Fear, a behind-the-scenes short that includes interviews with actors Jeffrey Combs, McElhone and Dorff, as well as Malone; a deleted scene, cast and crew highlights, photo gallery and trailer. All of which proves that DVD is a new and different kind of medium than movies, with a different audience. But it doesn't make a bad flick any better.
