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* BrokenAesop: The film was created with the intention of sending the message that the Internet is dangerous. However the unintended message also comes across that if you don't keep your mouth shut and come forward with incriminating information about a predator, you'll be [[spoiler: kidnapped, raped and buried alive.]]
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: The film was created with the intention of sending the message that the Internet is dangerous. However the unintended message also comes across that if you don't keep your mouth shut and come forward with incriminating information about a predator, you'll be [[spoiler: kidnapped, raped and buried alive.]]
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* BrokenAesop: The film was created with the intention of sending the message that the Internet is dangerous. However the unintended message also comes across that if you don't keep your mouth shut and come forward with incriminating information about a predator, you'll be [[spoiler: kidnapped, raped and buried alive.]]
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* BrokenBird: Megan [[spoiler: who was raped and molested both by her stepfather and a camp counselor.]]
* [[CantHoldHisLiquor Can't Hold Her Liquor]]: Amy at the party.
** Earlier on, while playing with Amy's new camera, Megan gives an autobiographical interview for a mockumentary, which starts out lighthearted and bubbly [[spoiler: but then takes a sudden dramatic turn when she describes [[TearJerker being molested by her stepfather, followed by her mother blaming her for him going to jail]]. She finishes the interview in tears and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming immediately receives a comforting hug from Amy]].]]
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* StepfordSmiler: Megan, who is the most popular girl at school but is actually extremely miserable with her life.
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* WildTeenParty: The house party at the beginning of the film, where Megan performs fellatio and Amy [[VomitIndiscretionShot pukes]] [[CantHoldHisLiquor after drinking too much]].
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* AbusiveParents: Megan's mother is extremely verbally and psychologically abusive, throwing tantrums and breaking her stuff when she gets angry. And let's not even get started on [[ParentalIncest her stepfather...]]
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Amy is a Type 1 to all of Megan's other friends due to her longtime friendship with Megan.
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* ScareEmStraight: The film's basic message towards teenage girls is to never ever talk to a stranger online or else [[spoiler: you will be kidnapped, raped, tortured, murdered, and [[BodyInABreadbox stuffed into a barrel]].]]
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* DuelingMovies: With ''Film/{{Trust}}'', another independent film dealing with the subject of online predators that was released around the same time. The films differ widely in their presentation of the topic, though, with ''Trust'' focusing more on the [[RapeAsDrama dramatic effects of rape]] and ''Megan Is Missing'' being more of a ScareEmStraight-type film [[spoiler: complete with a far more darker and {{Squick}}ier ending.]]
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* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: The contraption that Josh puts Megan in after he kidnaps her.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Josh stuffs a naked Amy into a barrel with Megan's dead and decaying body, then buries her alive. He isn't caught, either.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: Amy, we know you've gone through hell, but [[spoiler:was it really the best idea to go off all by yourself in a secluded area RIGHT AFTER reporting who you believe to be potentially dangerous kidnapper? And it was already insinuated that you might be in danger?]]
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* TooDumbToLive: Amy, we know you've gone through hell, but [[spoiler:was it really the best idea to go off all by yourself in a secluded area area, ''twice'', RIGHT AFTER reporting who you believe to be potentially dangerous kidnapper? And it was already insinuated that you might be in danger?]]danger? And Josh said that he might come after you?]]
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* NeverMyFault: Lexie blames everything about Megan's kidnapping on Amy despite the fact that Megan's communication with Josh would have never happened had it not been for her.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Who hasn't gotten oral sex from Megan?
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* {{Hypocrite}}: The director has a long message on the film's website complaining about, in part, how the media focuses too much on white victims. This film is all about a missing white girl. Even the LampshadeHanging doesn't excuse that he's buying in to the same thing he's complaining about.
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* StarterVillain: The boys from the party.
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* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: Parodied during one of the news reports, where several minutes are devoted to updates on the search for Megan and memories from her friends and family. At the end of the report, a black boy who also went missing gets little more than an offhand comment.
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''Megan is Missing'' is about two teenage girls named Megan Stewart and Amy Herman; Megan is a promiscuous young 14 year old who has a troubled past while Amy is a goody-good girl who's led a rather sheltered life. Somehow, the two girls manage to be best friends. Eventually, Megan begins talking to a guy named Josh online. She tells Amy about him and agrees to meet him. She vanishes after and Amy begins to make a video log about her feelings toward the turn of events. [[ItGotWorse It does not go well.]]
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''Megan is Missing'' is about two teenage girls named Megan Stewart and Amy Herman; Megan is a promiscuous young 14 year old who has a troubled past while Amy is a goody-good girl who's led a rather sheltered life. Somehow, the two girls manage to be best friends. Eventually, Megan begins talking to a guy named Josh online. She tells Amy about him and agrees to meet him. She vanishes after and Amy begins to make a video log about her feelings toward the turn of events. [[ItGotWorse It does not go well.]]
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* BannedInChina: The film is banned in UsefulNotes/NewZealand. According to [[http://kristianzhe.com/tag/megan-is-missing/ this article]], the country's Film and Video Labeling Board "claimed that it contained sexual violence and sexual conduct involving young people to such an extent and degree, and in such a manner that if it was released it would be ‘injurious to the public good’. They went on to say that it relished in the spectacle of one girl’s ordeal, including a three-minute rape scene. They also stated that it sexualised the lives of young teenage girls to a ‘highly exploitative degree’.”.
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* SnuffFilm: [[spoiler: The last twenty minutes.]]
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''Megan is Missing'' is about two teenage girls named Megan Stewart and Amy Stewart; Herman; Megan is a promiscuous young 14 year old who has a troubled past while Amy is a goody-good girl who's led a rather sheltered life. Somehow, the two girls manage to be best friends. Eventually, Megan begins talking to a guy named Josh online. She tells Amy about him and agrees to meet him. She vanishes after and Amy begins to make a video log about her feelings toward the turn of events. [[ItGotWorse It does not go well.]]
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''Megan is Missing'' is about two teenage girls named Megan Stewart and Amy Stewart; Megan is a promiscuous young 14 year old who has a troubled past while Amy is a goody-good girl who's led a rather sheltered life. Somehow, the two girls manage to be best friends. Eventually, Megan begins talking to a guy named Josh online. She tells Amy about him and agrees to meet him. She vanishes after and Amy begins to make a video log about her feelings toward the turn of events. [[ItGotWorse It does not go well.]]
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* AdultFear: This movie is ALL about the fear of losing children to online predators and boy does it hammer the point home. Over and over...
* AnAesop: Don't always trust who you meet online.
* BasedOnATrueStory: The whole film is based on six separate incidents involving teenage girls and sexual predators.
* BeingWatched: Amy gets this treatment after she reports "Josh" to the police and media.
* BlatantLies: Josh's excuses for not showing his face on webcam.
* BreakTheCutie: Amy.
* BuriedAlive: [[spoiler: Amy suffers this fate at the end.]]
* DaylightHorror: [[spoiler: Several instances, like when Josh is watching Amy in the background of the bridge scene, or more disturbingly, after he finishes burying her alive, when he turns around to leave, the sun has just started coming up.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Josh stuffs Amy into a barrel with Megan's dead and decaying body, then buries her alive. He isn't caught, either.]]
* InfantImmortality: Averted severely.
* JitterCam: There's a bit of this when it comes to the cell phone footage.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: When Amy first goes to the bridge, you can see a man in the background, watching her if you look carefully.
* NothingIsScarier: After Megan's second webcam chat with Josh, she leaves her room, but the camera remains on, giving the feeling that Josh is still silently watching. It lasts for about 15 seconds and is just...creepy.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Josh never gets caught.]]
* ParentalIncest: Megan's (unseen) stepfather.
* PresentDayPast: Set in 2007, but features technology more common now: most glaring is that the characters have video chats on their phones. While smartphones with this feature did exist in 2007, it seems unlikely that the characters would have such a phone at 13/14 years old at that time (being that the phones in question would be ridiculously expensive). It was probably done for ease of storytelling, and possibly slightly justified as the characters are mentioned as living in a relatively wealthy area of California.
* RapeAsDrama
* TortureCellar: Josh's chambers definitely count.
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!!Esxamples in this film:
* AdultFear: This movie is ALL about the fear of losing children to online predators and boy does it hammer the point home. Over and over...
* AnAesop: Don't always trust who you meet online.
* BasedOnATrueStory: The whole film is based on six separate incidents involving teenage girls and sexual predators.
* BeingWatched: Amy gets this treatment after she reports "Josh" to the police and media.
* BlatantLies: Josh's excuses for not showing his face on webcam.
* BreakTheCutie: Amy.
* BuriedAlive: [[spoiler: Amy suffers this fate at the end.]]
* DaylightHorror: [[spoiler: Several instances, like when Josh is watching Amy in the background of the bridge scene, or more disturbingly, after he finishes burying her alive, when he turns around to leave, the sun has just started coming up.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Josh stuffs Amy into a barrel with Megan's dead and decaying body, then buries her alive. He isn't caught, either.]]
* InfantImmortality: Averted severely.
* JitterCam: There's a bit of this when it comes to the cell phone footage.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: When Amy first goes to the bridge, you can see a man in the background, watching her if you look carefully.
* NothingIsScarier: After Megan's second webcam chat with Josh, she leaves her room, but the camera remains on, giving the feeling that Josh is still silently watching. It lasts for about 15 seconds and is just...creepy.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Josh never gets caught.]]
* ParentalIncest: Megan's (unseen) stepfather.
* PresentDayPast: Set in 2007, but features technology more common now: most glaring is that the characters have video chats on their phones. While smartphones with this feature did exist in 2007, it seems unlikely that the characters would have such a phone at 13/14 years old at that time (being that the phones in question would be ridiculously expensive). It was probably done for ease of storytelling, and possibly slightly justified as the characters are mentioned as living in a relatively wealthy area of California.
* RapeAsDrama
* TortureCellar: Josh's chambers definitely count.
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