History Film / NineDead

* PrisonRape: [[spoiler:Coogan raped the captor's son.]]

* RewatchBonus: Before killing a person, the captor will whisper the reason why unless the captive is being so defiant there is no point to it (one of them straight up tells him to go fuck himself, and another jumps ahead of the line in a HeroicSacrifice). We don't get to hear what he says, but after the mystery is revealed, it's easy to decipher from the context.

* RewatchBonus: Before killing a person, the captor will whisper the reason why unless the captive is being so defiant there is no point to it (two of them straight up tell him to go fuck himself, and another jumps ahead of the line in a HeroicSacrifice). We don't get to hear what he says, but after the mystery is revealed, it's easy to decipher from the context.

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

* IRegretNothing: Sully does express some remorse for what he considers to be his worst crime, but when he finds out that the reason behind his capture is something he considered [[ButForMeItWasTuesday completely insignificant]], he proudly embraces his criminal lifestyle, telling the captor he isn't sorry for any of it.

* IRegretNothing: When Sully finds out that the reason behind his capture is something he considered [[ButForMeItWasTuesday completely insignificant]], he proudly embraces his criminal lifestyle, telling the captor he isn't sorry for any of it.

* ObviouslyEvil: Everything about Coogan's appearance (PornStache, chubby, polo shirt, etc.) and SissyVillain mannerisms just ''screams'' "child molester".

* RewatchBonus: Before killing a person, the captor will whisper the reason why unless the captive is being so defiant there is no point to it. We don't get to hear what he says, but after the mystery is revealed, it's easy to decipher from the context.

* RedHerring: Though it does show the kind of people the characters are, the reveals that [[spoiler:Leon killed his brother, Jackson helped beat a teenager to blindness, Kelly murdered her own rapist with a baseball bat, Eddie falsified papers to get his brother in law into an experimental treatment, and Sully torched a store with the owner and his grandchildren inside]] have little else in bearing to why the characters are in the room.

* KarmaHoudini: Either played straight or subverted considering the film ends before the audience finds out if [[spoiler:Kelley]] gets away with it or not.
** [[spoiler:It was however made clear that "everyone was watching." There was apparently a live broadcast of the events, so even if she does get away, she'll be on the run from the law for the rest of her life, and her main purpose for killing Jackson and Eddie was made pointless and condemned herself.]]

* TheHero: Jackson and Eddie, as they spend most of the movie trying to get the group to work together and solve the mystery.

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

* PedophilePriest: Father Francis is accused of being this while trying to find his connection to the others.[[spoiler: He isn't.]]

* VillainByProxyFallacy: The captor targets nine people who are in some way responsible for the death of [[spoiler:his beloved son]], locking them all in a room and asking them why they are there. He will kill a random person every five minutes until they either figure it out or every single one of them is dead. While you can sympathize with him for wanting to punish [[spoiler:the pedophile that infected his son with aids, the robber who used him as a FallGuy, or the prosecutor who forged evidence to get a conviction and boost her own career, he equally blames the eyeball witness and the cop who were manipulated by said prosecutor, the guy who sold a gun to the robber and the guy who borrowed him money, even an insurance investigator who couldn't break rules without losing his job.]]

* RedHerring: Though it does show the kind of people the characters are, the reveals that [[spoiler:Leon killed his brother, Jackson help beat a teenager to blindness, Eddie falsified papers to get his brother in law into an experimental treatment, and Sully torched a store with the owner and his grandchildren inside]] have little else in bearing to why the characters are in the room.

* VillainByProxyFallacy: The killer targets nine people who are in some way responsible for the death of [[spoiler:his beloved son]], locking them all in a room and asking them why they are there. He will kill a random person every five minutes until they either figure it out or every single one of them is dead. While you can sympathize with him for wanting to punish [[spoiler:the pedophile that infected his son with aids, the robber who used him as a FallGuy, or the prosecutor who forged evidence to get a conviction and boost her own career, he equally blames the eyeball witness and the cop who were manipulated by said prosecutor, the guy who sold a gun to the robber and the guy who borrowed him money, even an insurance investigator who couldn't break rules without losing his job.]]

* VillainByProxyFallacy: The killer targets nine people who are in some way responsible for the death of [[spoiler:his beloved son]], locking them all in a room and forcing them to figure out their crime while randomly killing a person every five minutes. While you can sympathize with him for wanting to punish [[spoiler:the pedophile that infected his son with aids, the robber who used him as a FallGuy, or the prosecutor who forged evidence to get a conviction and boost her own career, he equally blames the eyeball witness and the cop who were manipulated by said prosecutor, the guy who sold a gun to the robber and the guy who borrowed him money, even an insurance investigator who couldn't break rules without losing his job.]]

* AmbitionIsEvil: [[spoiler:Kelley]] planted evidence and convicted an innocent man to advance her career; and then murders the other survivors to protect it.
* AmoralAttorney: [[spoiler:Kelley]], who not only deliberately framed an innocent man, but murders Eddie and Jackson to protect her reputation.

* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Losing your son and being denied a treatment that could save him.]]

''Nine Dead'' is a 2009 OntologicalMystery Drama in which nine people with apparently no connection to each other are kidnapped, and told that one of them will die every 10 minutes unless they can tell their captor the reason why he kidnapped them.

** Leon isn't much better, considering his treatment of Chan, and ASSUMING every white person in the room is racist toward him, despite Sully being the only one to display the attitude.

* {{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 for armed robbery and the insurance company's investigation when his son was dying of [=AIDs=] after serving out his term, he should at least know the identities of Kelly (the public prosecutor), Chan (the chief witness in the trial), Eddie (the insurance investigator), and maybe Jackson (assuming that he was the investigating officer). He could have found out the identity and whereabouts of Coogan (who raped the captor's son during his stint in prison) based on information his son would have provided him and some additional research. However, he never knew anything about Christian and Sully's money deal, Leon selling the gun to Christian, Christian confessing to Father Francis that he was the real robber, or Kelley tricking Jackson into helping her commit 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.]]

* {{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.

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Jackson on his wife with Kelley.]]