Untraceable (2008)


Diane Lane              Jennifer Marsh
Billy Burke             Detective Eric Box
Colin Hanks             Griffin Dowd
Joseph Cross            Owen Reilly
Mary Beth Hurt          Stella Marsh
Erin Carufel            Melanie
Tim deZarn              Herbert Miller
Perla Haney-Jardine     Annie Haskins
Katie O'Grady           Portland Reporter #2
Dan Callahan            Trey Restom
Ryan Deal               Cop #1
Peter Lewis (III)       Richard Brooks
Gray Eubank             Ray
Jamal Qutub             Young Stoner
Tyrone Giordano         Tim Wilks
Christopher Cousins     David Williams
Jesse Tyler Ferguson    Arthur James Elmer
Zack Hoffman            Chief of Police Michael Bagley
Len Huynh               Tom Park

Directed by:            Gregory Hoblit
Produced by:            Richard Wright (VII), Eric Reid (II), James McQuaide


Within the FBI, there exists a division dedicated to investigating and prosecuting criminals 
on the internet. Welcome to the front lines of the war on cybercrime, where Special Agent Jennifer 
Marsh has seen it all--until now. A tech-savvy internet predator is displaying his graphic murders 
on his own website--and the fate of each of his tormented captives is left in the hands on the 
public: the more hits his site gets, the faster his victims die. When this game of cat and mouse 
becomes personal, Marsh and her team must race against the clock to track down this technical 
mastermind who is virtually untraceable. 

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A secret service agent, Jennifer Marsh, gets caught in a very personal and deadly cat-and-mouse game 
with a serial killer who knows that people (being what they are - both curious and drawn to the dark 
side of things) will log onto an "untraceable" website where he conducts violent and painful murders 
LIVE on the net. The more people who log on and enter the website, the quicker and more violently 
the victim dies.

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Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) is a widowed single parent living in a suburban Portland home with her 
daughter Annie Haskins (Perla Haney-Jardine). By night, she works in the FBI's cybercrime division 
with Griffin Dowd (Colin Hanks), fighting identity theft and similar crimes. One night, an anonymous 
tip leads them to a website called killwithme.com. The site features a streaming video of a kitten 
being tortured and killed.

After the kitten's death, killwithme's webmaster (Joseph Cross) 'graduates' to human victims and makes 
their deaths correlate directly with the number of hits the site receives. At a press conference, the 
public is urged to avoid killwithme but, as Marsh feared, this only increases the site's popularity. 
The videos are recorded in the killer's basement and his various victims include a helicopter pilot 
(who is bled to death by injections of anticoagulant), a newscaster (burnt by heat lamps) and Dowd 
(killed by slowly increasing the concentration of sulfuric acid solution in which he is submerged).

At first it seems the victims were randomly chosen, but this is not the case. The first two victims 
were chosen because they were part of filming or presenting the suicide of a junior college teacher. 
The teacher's unstable, techno-prodigy son, Owen Reilly, broke down and was admitted to a psychiatric 
hospital. When released, he decided to prove a point (that the public is insatiable for the suffering 
of others), as well as wreak vengeance on those he felt had exploited his father's tragedy. Dowd was 
killed because he came close to the truth of who the murderer was. Marsh, who figures this out, is 
soon targeted as well.

Captured by Reilly, Marsh escapes her death-by-mulcher by swinging out of the way while dangling from 
the ceiling. She ends up breaking free and gunning down the murderer just as the other police show up, 
Marsh kills Reilly on his own website. As the film ends, the website receives numerous requests for a 
video of Reilly's death.