The slasher genre goes high-tech via a plot where the killer lurks on the internet in this shocker, which didn't "make the least bit of sense" when we saw it at the cinema. You may still be none the wiser after listening to director William Malone's commentary on the DVD.

Certainly his film has not inspired much from the DVD producers, who have only conjured up dull static menus that lead to an unadventurous selection of extra features. The main one of these is the commentary with Malone and his cinematographer Christian Sebaldt.

Their conversation isn't riveting, but it does expose the film's weaknesses as they discuss more and more ideas that came to them during the shoot, which then had to be incorporated into the finished result. Sebaldt's technical chat will prove informative to anyone interested in cinematography, but otherwise there's not much to learn apart from general scene-by-scene breakdowns.

The featurette, FearDotCom: Visions of Fear, only furthers the suspicion that this film was a mix of ideas that were never going to work. Malone talks about how he wanted 30s art design throughout to contrast with the starkness of the modern technology in the movie. But he never explains why this was a good idea. Equally he doesn't offer a reason why the one deleted scene on the disc (of mushrooms turning into people) was dropped from the film!

Still you may not care about the confused plot (although the mushroom people will haunt your dreams), so if it's just the film you want to see, then the 5.1 presentation of the movie should creep you out.

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This DVD was reviewed on a JVC XV-N5 DVD player.