Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, with special guest Diamanda Hagan, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT.
This time, William Malone’s feardotcom.
Detective Mike Reilly has spent the past few years in pursuit of the online serial killer who goes by the name of “the Doctor”, a murderer who streams his crimes on the internet for all to watch. Reassigned after failure to show any results, Reilly finds himself investigating a seemingly unrelated case of contagion that is spreading through New York City. However, Reilly soon discovers that the two cases are more closely linked than he could have imagined.
At time of recording, it was ranked 67th on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 13th October 2022.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
- feardotcom at the Internet Movie Database.
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- Jon O’Brien at Inverse looks back on feardotcom as an early cyber horror, August 2022.
- Meagan Navarro at Bloody Disgusting looks back on Geoffrey Rush’s performance in The House on Haunted Hill, October 2019.
- Erica Russell at Bloody Disgusting considers the legacy and impact of Kairo, February 2021.
- Wooju Chong at Inquiries considers Kairo as a techno-horror, March 2021.
- Luiz H.C. at Bloody Disgusting considers The Collingswood Story as an early example of the “screenlife” genre, August 2022.
- Timus Bekmambetov talks to IndieWire about what he sees as the future of the “screenlife” movie, August 2018.
- Anthony Grabmuglia at Dread Central looks back on The McPherson Tape as an early example of “found footage” horror, August 2022.
- Peter Bradshaw reviews My Little Eye for The Guardian, October 2002.
- Anne Billson at Horror DNA charts the evolution of cyberhorror, June 2019.
- Andrew Tarantola at Gizmodo considers the impact of O Brother, Where Art Thou? as the first film to use all-digital color grading, June 2014.
- Roger Ebert reviews feardotcom for The Chicago Sun Times, August 2002.
- Nicholas Meyer writes at Trek Movie about essentially tricking William Shatner into giving his performance in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, June 2009.
- Peter Weir and Jim Carrey discuss collaborating on The Truman Show with The Los Angeles Times, May 1998.
- Diamanda Hagan reviews Remake for Hagan Reviews, June 2018.
- David Germain at The Los Angeles Times reports on feardotcom‘s opening weekend box office, September 2002.
- Patrick Goldstein at The Los Angeles Times looks at Labour Day as a traditional “dumping” weekend, August 2002.
- Drew Taylor at Collider considers all of the movies to get an “F” CinemaScore, January 2020.
- Patrick Goldstein at The Los Angeles Times looks at how studios like Warner Bros. outsource promotional costs for movies they “dump”, October 2002.
- Michael Cieply and Claudia Eller at The Los Angeles Times look at the somewhat troubled history of Franchise Pictures, January 2003.
- Jonathan Bing at Variety considers Franchise Pictures CEO Elie Samaha, June 2003.
- Shannon Bond at NPR looks at the record-breaking success of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings on Labour Day weekend, September 2021.
- David Germain at The Orange County Register reports on the record-breaking Labour Day box office for Rob Zombie’s Halloween, September 2007.
- Thomas Lennon talks to Daily Dread about starring in the Puppet Master franchise, August 2018.
- Stephen Dorff talks to Variety about choosing to focus on supporting roles after feardotcom, November 2013.
- Stephen Dorff talks to The Independent about his opinion concerning superhero films like Black Widow, July 2021.
- Anton Bitel at Little White Lies looks back on Kill, Baby, Kill!, September 2017.
- Theodore Price discusses Toby Dammit at Film Alert 101, August 2017.
- Erin Blakemore at History looks at the origins of Frankenstein, March 2018.
- Ashley Strickland at CNN reports on how the eruption of Mount Tamboro led to “a year without summer”, September 2019.
- Sky & Telescope argue that the sky in The Scream reflected the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Krakatoa, December 2003.
- Matt Zoller Seitz at RogerEbert.com considers the artificiality of Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, January 2021.
- Mark Caro at The Los Angeles Times reflects on the explosion of serial killer media at the turn of the millennium, October 2002.
- Amy Taubin at Sight & Sound reflects on the rise and popularity of serial killer narratives in the pop culture of the nineties, November 2017.
- Jessica Murphy at BBC News reflects on the ubiquity of the serial killer in eighties news reports, August 2018.
- Clark Collis at Entertainment Weekly looks back on the history of “torture porn” as a horror subgenre, January 2021.
- Paul Bramhnall at CityOnFire considers The Men Behind the Sun, October 2016.
- The Guardian reports on the retirement of MPAA chief Jack Valenti, March 2004.
- Audra Shroeder at The Daily Dot considers how rotten.com changed the internet and wider culture, May 2016.
- Donald Richie considers In the Realm of the Senses at Criterion, April 2009.
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