History Film / TheDen

* DropTheHammer: Elizabeth wrests a hammer away from an attacker and uses it to down others.

''The Den'' is a 2014 horror movie about Elizabeth Benton, a university student who is writing her graduate thesis on the habits of online video-chatters. After logging onto a site known as [[TitleDrop ''The Den'']], Elizabeth witnesses a murder. She quickly becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind what she saw, only to find the killers coming after her and her loved ones.

* TheCracker: The killers have a fair amount of skill at hacking other peoples computers and accounts as well as sending viruses.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Elizabeth is murdered by the gang of killers, who are revealed to have done this hundreds of times before, and it's implied that they plan to do the same to the British woman who witnesses Elizabeth's death. And the ending where a man pays to watch the killers stalk, harass, and eventually kill the woman implies that [[InferredHolocaust they don't plan on stopping anytime soon.]]]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: After Elizabeth witnesses the online murder, she attempts to inform the police. [[PoliceAreUseless Naturally, she's completely brushed off]], but the officer does point out that most of the 'murders' witnessed online are faked, and there isn't any reason to believe this one is not. Additionally, even if it was real, they still don't know where or when the murder took place.

* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:Elizabeth's sister and her unborn child]] are the only survivors among [[spoiler:Elizabeth's]] loved ones, albeit only because the attackers are interrupted.

'''''The Den''''' is a 2014 horror movie about Elizabeth Benton, a university student who is writing her graduate thesis on the habits of online video-chatters. After logging onto a site known as [[TitleDrop ''The Den'']], Elizabeth witnesses a murder. She quickly becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind what she saw, only to find the killers coming after her and her loved ones.

* SnuffFilm [[spoiler: The ultimate goal of the killers is to create snuff films, which they sell online.]]

* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: It's costly, though, as Elizabeth kills or severely injures several of the killers before they finally take her down.]]

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: Elizabeth is murdered by the gang of killers and it's implied that they plan to do the same to the British woman they have witness Elizabeth's death. And the ending where a man pays to watch the killers stalk, harass, and eventually kill the woman implies that [[InferredHolocaust they don't plan on stopping anytime soon.]]]]

* [[spoiler: KillerCop: One of the snuff film ring is either a police officer or a crime scene technician and retrieves the camera used in the attack on Elizabeth's sister under the ruse of collecting it as evidence.]]

'''''The Den''''' is a 2014 horror movie about Elizabeth Benton, a university student who is writing her graduate thesis on the habits of online video-chatters. After logging onto a site known as [[TitleDrop ''The Den'']] (a clone of Chatroulette), Elizabeth witnesses a murder. She quickly becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind what she saw, only to find the killers coming after her and her loved ones.

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: During the film's climax Elizabeth steals one of the gang's cars and seems to be in the clear until they broadside the fleeing vehicle with the truck shown a few seconds earlier.]]

* ShoutOut: [[spoiler:The police officer guarding Elizabeth]] is strung up in chains similar to Frank Cotton's fate in
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** During the chase through the hideout there's a brief glimpse of a white wall with red markings that resembles the face of Jigsaw's doll from the {{film/Saw Saw films.}}

* ShoutOut: [[spoiler:The police officer guarding Elizabeth]] is strung up in chains similar to Frank Cotton's fate in [[film/Hellraiser Hellraiser.]]
** During the chase through the hideout there's a brief glimpse of a white wall with red markings that resembles the face of Jigsaw's doll from the [[film/Saw Saw films.]]

* [[spoiler: KillerCop: One of the snuff film ring is either a police officer or a crime scene technician and retrieves it following the attack on Elizabeth's sister under the guise of collecting it as evidence.]]

* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins]]

* MakeItLookLikeASuicide: The killer stages [[spoiler: Jenni's death]] to be a suicide by using [[spoiler: her]] e-mail account to send Elizabeth a suicide note.

* SchmuckBait: At one point, Elizabeth's close friend has disappeared, but his online account is still active and sending her sinister messages. She is then sent a link by this aforementioned account, which supposedly will tell her what happened to her friend. She clicks it . . . and her computer is immediately wiped clean.