History Film / TheHitList

* DangerTakesABackSeat: After Gates is murdered, Allan tries to phone Brian Feltzer, the next name on the list, to warn him. Unable to reach him, Allan jumps in his car, intending to drive to where Brian-is to warn him in person. However, Jonas is waiting in the back seat of Allan's car and claps a gun to Allan's head before explaining that now he is started killing, the only way for Allan to stop him murdering all five people on the list will be for Allan to kill him.

* BloodIsSquickerInWater:

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: A little over two days. The film starts late at night as Jonas decides not to complete his current contract and goes off to murder O'Bannion. The following day Allan suffers his HumiliationConga and meets Jonas in a bar that night. The next day Jonas starts killing the people on Allan's hit list. The siege at the police station occurs that night, and the film on the aftermath the next morning.

* BloodTrail: Jonas tracks Allan and Sydney through the police station by following the blood trail from Sydney's wounded leg.

* PunkInTheTrunk: Jonas leaves Mike Dodd's in the trunk of the police cruiser he parks outside the station, rigged with a bomb set to go off shortly after the trunk is opened.

Allan Campbell (Hauser), a man who has suffered a TraumaCongaLine, goes to a bar to drown his sorrows. While there,he meets Jonas Arbor (Gooding), who claims to be a ProfessionalKiller. In a drunken moment of bonding, and believing that Arbor is joking, Allan provides him with a list of five people he wishes were dead. Allan thinks no more about it until the people on his list start turning up dead. Detective Neil [=McKay=] ([=LaPaglia=]) investigates and Allan becomes his prime suspect. No longer believing the events to be a practical joke, Allan must set out to put a stop to the killings before it is too late for his wife, who happens to be the last name on the list.

* TraumaCongaLine: Allan Campbell, a man desperate for a promotion to escape the clutches of a LoanShark, spills coffee on his shirt just before his meeting with his boss. In the meeting, the boss gives the promotion to an annoying JerkAss with less seniority whom Allan believes stole his idea. Heading home, he finds his wife screwing his best friend. Then he heads out to a bar to drown his sorrows, where he meets a mysterious stranger who offers to kill five people for him...

* TraumaCongaLine: Allan Campbell, a man desperate for a promotion to escape the clutches of a LoanShark, spills coffee on his shirt just before his meeting with his boss. In the meeting, the boss gives the promotion to an annoying JerkAss with less seniority whom Allan believes stole his idea. Heading home, he finds his wife screwing his best friend. Then he heads out to a bar to drown his sorrows, where he meets a mysterious stranger who offers to kill five people for him...

Allan Campbell (Hauser), a man who has suffered a TraumaCongaLine, goes to a bar to drown his sorrows. While there,he meets Jonas Arbor (Gooding), who claims to be a ProfessionalKiller. In a drunken moment of bonding, and believing that Arbor is joking, Allan provides him with a list of five people he wishes were dead. Allan thinks no more about it until the people on his list start turning up dead. Detective Neil [=McKay=] ([=LaPaglia=]) investigates and Allan becomes his prime suspect. Mo longer believing the events to be a practical joke, Allan must set out to put a stop to the killings before it is too late for his wife, who happens to be the last name on the list.

* DoomedNewClothes: Just before going into an important meeting with his boss, Allan spills coffee over his pristine white shirt, forcing him to borrow a shirt from a coworker.