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Griffin is kidnapped after investigating a lead based on his hunch as to the killer's identity and receiving a phone call from the killer disguising his voice and posing as one of Griffin's jilted blind dates. In the killer's basement, he is submerged up to his neck in a vat of water with his mouth
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and progressively lowering her to her death as more people enter the website. Jennifer escapes by swinging out of the way and grabbing a pillar to pull herself onto the ground. She breaks free and pins down the murderer, fatally shooting Owen as the police arrive. Owen's death was being broadcast,
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Jennifer follows up on the morse code message to discover that the victims were not random: they were involved in broadcasting 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
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After the cat's death, KillWithMe.com's webmaster graduates to human victims, kidnapping them and placing them in death traps that are progressively activated by the number of hits the website receives. The first victim is a helicopter pilot Herbert Miller (bled to death by injections of
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was shot both on the actual bridge as well as at the studio. A faux diner was built underneath the Broadway bridge, which was used in the movie. The birthday party for Perla Haney-Jardine's character Annie was filmed in the roller skating rink of
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released, he decided to take revenge and prove a point: that the public's interest in the suffering of others is insatiable, as well as to wreak vengeance on those he felt had exploited his father's death.
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The police raid Owen's house but he is not present. Owen has been following Jennifer because he is now obsessed with her. He captures and places Jennifer in a makeshift death trap: hanging her above a
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dwindles, statements are made such as "You go girl!", "glad the killer is dead" and another one saying "a genius died today". The final comment asks where the video can be downloaded.
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being tortured and killed. The website cannot be shut down, as the creator knew that someone would try, and built into it a fail-safe; every time the server is closed, a
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The film opened poorly, with an opening weekend of $ 11.3 million, below the $ 35 million budget. It grossed $ 53 million worldwide, on theatrical release.
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and similar crimes. One night, an anonymous tip leads them to a website called KillWithMe.com. The site features a streaming video of a
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gives the film a score of 16% based on 149 reviews, with the site's consensus being, "Despite Diane Lane's earnest effort,
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gave the film a strongly negative review, giving it zero stars and insisting readers to not watch the film.
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home with her daughter, Annie Haskins, and her mother, Stella Marsh. At night, she works in the FBI's
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manages to be nothing more than a run-of-the-mill thriller with a hypocritical message".
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The film was shot in and around Portland, Oregon. A temporary studio was constructed in
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who rigs contraptions that kill his victims based on the number of hits received by a
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just like his father's. Jennifer then displays her FBI badge to the webcam.
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of the victim. Millions of people log on, hastening the victims' deaths.
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taped shut; the death trap introduces into the water a concentration of
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Several critics viewed the film as hypocritical for indulging in the "
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gave the film a favorable review, giving the film a 3 star rating.
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received negative reviews from critics. Review aggregation website
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clichés. Lane was praised for her performance in the film.
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Index


Gregory Hoblit
Robert Fyvolent
Allison Burnett
Tom Rosenberg
Gary Lucchesi
Hawk Koch
Diane Lane
Billy Burke
Colin Hanks
Joseph Cross
Mary Beth Hurt
David Rosenbloom
Christopher Young
Screen Gems
Lakeshore Entertainment
Sony Pictures Releasing
psychological thriller film
Gregory Hoblit
Diane Lane
Colin Hanks
Billy Burke
Joseph Cross
Screen Gems
Portland, Oregon
serial killer
website
streaming video
FBI
widowed

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