History Film / Untraceable

* EveryoneKnowsMorse: Averted: Jennifer notices that a character's blinks look like morse code, but has to find somebody else to actually decipher it.

%%* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Poor Griffin.]]
%%* MurderDotCom: the untraceable website.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Every death in the movie, but special mention goes to [[spoiler: Griffin]] who is dissolved in ''battery acid''.

* StreisandEffect: InUniverse. After initially discovering [=KillWithMe.com=], the police department issues a public service announcement warning people to stay away from it. As [[GenreSavvy Jennifer]] predicted and feared, this only serves to increase the website's popularity.

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* BookEnds: the movie starts with a car ride through Portland while it rains and the radio switches from the national to the local news. The same happens in the scene before the showdown.

[[ActionGirl Jennifer Marsh]] (Diane Lane) is a single mother and an agent for the FBI's cyber crime unit with her partner [[LovableNerd Griffin Dowd]] (Colin Hanks). Their new case is tracking down and trying to bring down a new Web site, [[MurderDotCom KillWithMe.com]], which consists of streaming video of a cat put in a ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''-esque death trap, a chatroom for comments and a viewing counter which, as it rises, makes the death trap more and more dangerous for the victim inside. As the webmaster, Owen Reilly (Joseph Cross), moves up to human victims, the site's popularity grows, making the deaths on screen happen faster and faster.

%%* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler: the morsecode eye-blinking.]] Another case where it is averted is with [[spoiler: Annie's Karate skills.]]

* EveryoneKnowsMorse: averted, Jennifer notices it is morsecode, but gets somebody else to decipher it.

* ShoutOut: The weedwhacker is from {{Braindead}}.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Every male victim suffers through a slow and agonising death that even if someone managed to rescued them in time would leave lasting and obvious scarring. [[spoiler: Jennifer]] is put in a death trap that will either kill her instantly or allow her to escape untouched.

[[ActionGirl Jennifer Marsh]] (Diane Lane) is a single mother and an agent for the FBI's cyber crime unit with her partner [[LovableNerd Griffin Dowd]] (Colin Hanks). Their new case is tracking down and trying to bring down a new Web site, [[MurderDotCom KillWithMe.com]], which consists of streaming video of a cat put in a ''{{Saw}}''-esque death trap, a chatroom for comments and a viewing counter which, as it rises, makes the death trap more and more dangerous for the victim inside. As the webmaster, Owen Reilly (Joseph Cross), moves up to human victims, the site's popularity grows, making the deaths on screen happen faster and faster.

* StreisandEffect: After initially discovering [=KillWithMe.com=], the police department issues a public service announcement warning people to stay away from it. As [[GenreSavvy Jennifer]] predicted and feared, this only serves to increase the website's popularity.

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* AlwaysMurder

* ChekhovsGun: The punching bag.
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler: the morsecode eye-blinking.]] Another case where it is averted is with [[spoiler: Annie's Karate skills.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:What the whole thing turns out to be.]]

* EverythingIsOnline

* {{Fallen}}

* {{Gorn}}

* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Poor Griffin.]]
* MurderDotCom: the untraceable website.
* MurderSimulators
* PoeticSerialKiller

* SnuffFilm

* TortureCellar

* [[spoiler:{{Revenge}}: The main Motivation of the Killer.]]
* SerialKiller
** [[spoiler: PoeticSerialKiller]]

* WesternTerrorist: what the head of the field agent first makes him out to be. Including comparison to the Unabomber and Timothy [=McVeigh=]

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* TruthInTelevision: Sadly people like some of the posters online in the movie praising the killer actually exist in real life. A recent example is a [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/james-holmes-facebook-fan-page_n_1720195.html?1343677920 Facebook fanpage for the 'alleged' shooter of the Aurora Colorado theater shooting sprung up only to quickly disappear.]] A [[http://www.11alive.com/news/article/184850/3/Facebook-fan-page-for-Jamie-Hood-pops-up similar page]] was also put up for cop killer Jamie Hood.

* TruthInTelevision: Sadly people like some of the posters online in the movie praising the killer actually exist in real life. A recent example is a [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/james-holmes-facebook-fan-page_n_1720195.html?1343677920 Facebook fanpage for the 'alleged' shooter of the Aurora Colorado theater shooting sprung up only to quickly disappear.]]

* TruthInTelevision: Sadly people like some of the posters online in the movie praising the killer actually exist in real life. A Recent example is a [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/james-holmes-facebook-fan-page_n_1720195.html?1343677920 Facebook fanpage for the 'alleged' shooter of the Aurora Colorado theater shooting sprung up only to quickly disappear.]]

* TruthInTelevision: Sadly people like some of the posters online in the movie praising the killer actually exist in real life. A Recent example is a [[ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/james-holmes-facebook-fan-page_n_1720195.html?1343677920 Facebook fanpage for the 'alleged' shooter of the Aurora Colorado theater shooting sprung up only to quickly disappear.]]

[[ActionGirl Jennifer Marsh]] (Diane Lane) is a single mother and an agent for the FBI's cyber crime unit with her partner [[LovableNerd Griffin Dowd]] (Colin Hanks). Their new case is tracking down and trying to bring down a new Web site, [[MurderDotCom KillWithMe.com]], which consists of streaming video of a cat put in a ''{{Saw}}''-esque death trap, a chatroom for comments and a viewing counter which, as it rises, makes the death trap more and more dangerous for the victim inside. As the webmaster, Owen Reilly (David Cross), moves up to human victims, the site's popularity grows, making the deaths on screen happen faster and faster.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished

[[ActionGirl Jennifer Marsh]] (Diane Lane) is a single mother and an agent for the CIA's cyber crime unit with her partner [[LovableNerd Griffin Dowd]] (Colin Hanks). Their new case is tracking down and trying to bring down a new Web site, [[MurderDotCom KillWithMe.com]], which consists of streaming video of a cat put in a ''{{Saw}}''-esque death trap, a chatroom for comments and a viewing counter which, as it rises, makes the death trap more and more dangerous for the victim inside. As the webmaster, Owen Reilly (David Cross), moves up to human victims, the site's popularity grows, making the deaths on screen happen faster and faster.