History Film / NineDead

* Hypocrite: Leon becomes sullen and angry when he's called a racial slur...it's hard to feel sorry for him considering the racial slurs he himself was hurling only a second before.

** [[spoiler:Sully is a racist, mysogynist, mob-connected loan shark from Vegas who firebombs the homes of those who don't pay back their debts on time.]]

* {{Plothole}}: The captor's plan largely depends on him knowing information that he simply did not possess or had access to. [[spoiler:Having presumably witnessed his son's trial and the insurance company's investigation, he should at least know the identities of Kelly, Chan, Eddie, and maybe Jackson (if he was the investigating officer). He could have found out the identity and whereabouts of Coogan based on information his son would have provided him and some additional research. However, he never knew anything about Christian and Sulley's deal, Leon selling the gun to Christian, Christian confessing to Father Francis that he was the real robber, or Kelley and Jackson committing legal fraud, nor could he have known without being omniscient. This is poorly handwaved by the captor explaining his scheme took two years of planning.]]

* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Ironically, The Kidnapper's [[DisproprtionateRetribution murder spree]] ends up revealing to the public that the biggest monster in the room is [[spoiler:Kelly]], having betrayed and murdered everyone.

* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Ironically, The Kidnapper's [[DisproprtionateRetribution murder spree]] ends up revealing that the biggest monster in the room is [[spoiler:Kelly]], having betrayed and murdered everyone.

* LawOfInverseFertility: [[spoiler:Kelly's son Billy is actually Jackson's as well, resulting from their affair. Before that Jackson had been trying to conceive a child with his wife, with no success.]]

* NWordPrivileges: Chan fires an n-bomb off at Leon when provoked to speak English.

* IrrationalHatred: The captor has this towards most of the captives, as he simply seems to be looking for someone, ''anyone'' to blame for [[spoiler:the death of his son, no matter how reponsible they really were. Kelly (for framing Wade to advance herself), Coogan (for raping Wade and giving him AIDS), and Christian (for letting an innocent go to prison so he can remain free) are the only ones directly responsible for the death of his son. From his point of view, any intervention would've saved Wade.]]

** [[spoiler:Father Francis is bound by his oath to God not to reveal the contents of his confessions.]]

* Asspull: [[spoiler:Eddie realizing Coogan had aids, based on a comment made right before he got shot, at the critical point where everyone but Coogan and Eddie's involvement was accounted for.]]

* Asspull: [[spoiler:Eddie realizing Coogan had AIDs, based on a comment made right before he got shot, at the critical point where everyone but Coogan and Eddie's involvement was accounted for.]]

* spoiler:SympatheticMurderer: Not at first, but [[spoiler:his actions are entirely motivated by the death of his son.]]

* [[spoiler:SympatheticMurderer]]: Not at first, but after TheReveal, it's hard not to feel a little bad for the captor.

* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:Father Francis' TakingTheBullet for Eddie. He dies anyway.]]

* IrrationalHatred: The captor has this towards most of the captives, as he simply seems to be looking for someone, ''anyone'' to blame for [[spoiler:the death of his son, no matter how reponsible they really were. Kelly (for framing Wade to advance herself), Coogan (for raping Wade and giving him AIDS), and Christian (for letting an innocent go to prison so he can remain free) are the only ones directly responsible for the death of his son.]]

* LoanShark: Sully. [[spoiler:This later turns out to be the key plot point in the mystery, as it was his loan that Christian had to pay back by any means that set the entire story in motion.]]

* [[spoiler:AmoralAttorney: Kelley, who not only deliberately framed an innocent man, but murders Eddie and Jackson to protect her reputation.]]
%%* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Sully, Leon, and Coogan.]]

* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Turned on its head as the only reason Kelley is the FinalGirl is because she kills the other two survivors.]]
* TheHero: Arguably, Jackson and Eddie as they spend most of the movie trying to get the group to work together and solve the mystery.

%%* AmbitionIsEvil: [[spoiler:Kelley]]
%%* AmoralAttorney: [[spoiler: Kelley]]

* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Leon]] killed his brother.

** Sully and Leon aren't particularly nice guys, but even they are disgusted at the [[AxCrazy Ax Crazy]] Coogan

%%* RapeAsBackstory: Kelley and [[spoiler:the captors son.]]

%%* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler:Christian.]]

* NoEnding: The film ends with [[spoiler: Kelley overpowers and kills the Captor, then turns and murders the last two of her fellow captives to keep her own secret. Then against all logic(She's supposed to be a lawyer) wanders through the building and out the back door as the cops burst in the front door and find the bodies in the room. Then, cut to black.]]

* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler:The Kidnapper wants revenge against his nine captives for the role they played in the death of his son. These include the man who raped him thus giving him AIDS and the lawyer who framed him for a liquor store robbery. Also includes the guy who was owed money by the REAL robber, and a priest who heard the Confession of the robber.]]

* IrrationalHatred: The captor has this towards most of the captives, as he simply seems to be looking for someone, ''anyone'' to blame for [[spoiler:the death of his son, no matter how reponsible they really were. Kelly (for framing Wade to advance herself), Coogan (for raping Wade and giving him aids), and Christian (for letting an innocent go to prison so he can remain free) are the only ones directly responsible for the death of his son.]]

* ViewersAreMorons: While the film does use occasional flashbacks to earlier lines of dialogue when the characters figure something out, two flashbacks to dialogue from the captor appear no less than five minutes after he actually says them.

* IrrationalHatred: The captor has this towards most of the captives, as he simply seems to be looking for someone, ''anyone'' to blame for [[spoiler:the death of his son, no matter how reponsible they really were. Kelly (for framing Wade to advance herself), Coogan (for raping Wade and giving him aids), and Christian (for letting an innocent go to prison so he can remain free) are the only ones directly responsible for the death of his son. Sully and Leon are remorseless criminals, but only tangentially related to his son's death. Chan made a genuine mistake and didn't intend any harm (if you know Chinese, she even says in her death scene that Kelly manipulated her into selecting Wade from the line-up), Father Francis is bound by his oath to God not to reveal the contents of his confessions, Eddie had no choice but to follow his company's rules or be fired, and Jackson was being manipulated by Kelly and didn't even ''know'' the evidence used to convict Wade was false]].

* AmbitionIsEvil: [[spoiler:Kelley]]
* AmoralAttorney: [[spoiler: Kelley]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Sully, Leon, and Coogan.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: Sully. Coogan to a far more passive aggresive degree.

* {{Jerkass}}: Basically everyone, but [[spoiler:Kelley]], Leon, Sully and Coogan pretty much take the cake.

* OntologicalMystery

* RapeAsBackstory: Kelley and [[spoiler:the captors son.]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler:Christian.]]

* [[spoiler:FinalGirl]]: [[spoiler:Turned on its head as the only reason Kelley is the FinalGirl is because she kills the other two survivors.]]

* [[spoiler: PapaWolf:]] It turns out that the abductor's motivation [[spoiler:is to get revenge on the ones he views as responsible for his son's death.]]