Together with four corpses in his palms, New York City gumshoe Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff) teams together with Department of Health worker Terry Huston (Natascha McElhone) to monitor a homicidal sadist who telecasts shocking acts of torture on the Internet. Nevertheless they got their work cut out: '' It seems the victims' single link is that each of them went feet up 48 hours after logging onto a website called feardotcom.com. Stephen Rea also celebrities in this thriller.