.com for Murder
Year: 2002
Runtime: 96 mins
Language: English
Director: Nico Mastorakis
In cyberspace no one can hear you scream. This high‑tech psychological thriller explores the dark side of the Internet. While recuperating from a skiing accident at her boyfriend’s mansion, Sondra Brummel unintentionally contacts a possible murderer through an online chatroom. She and her friend Misty then dive into a virtual game that soon blurs the line between simulation and reality, pulling them into a deadly real‑world confrontation.
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Ben [Roger Daltrey] is a successful and wealthy architect living in Los Angeles. Sondra [Nastassja Kinski] is his beloved wife, who has broken a leg while skiing. As Ben is about to leave town for work, Sondra accesses his intelligent house computer Hal and discovers that Ben has been chatting on American Love Online. Posing as him, she chats with one online friend, Lynn [Kim Valentine], and they agree to meet that night. Hacker Werther [Jeffery Dean] rudely joins the conversation and later shuts out Sondra, and starts chatting in Ben’s name. Sondra is meanwhile joined by her sister Misty [Nicollette Sheridan], who comes to look after her. Later that night Werther kills Lynn in her house, showing an online live feed of the murder to Sondra and Misty. Werther is shown to be a psychopath who loves to quote from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe and calls his victims by the name Lotte.
Sondra and Misty call the police and eventually speak with FBI agent Matheson [Huey Lewis]. When they send him the file of the murder, it appears to be encrypted. On the advice of agent Matheson, Sondra and Misty invite a computer expert to decrypt the file. As the expert arrives at the door, Werther calls them, pretending to be the expert. Sondra and Misty thus send the real expert away, believing he is the killer. A short while later, Werther shows up at the house, keeping his disguise. After he finishes the decrypting job and leaves the house, Misty walks after him to inform him that the gate is jammed. Werther suddenly turns towards her and cuts her left wrist slightly, just enough to keep her living for another 20 minutes, all the while viewed by Sondra from the computer. Werther then turns to enter the house and kill Sondra, but Sondra manages to lock the main entrance in time to prevent this. Werther then tries to open the pool door but is electrocuted with 22,000 volts by Hal.
Sondra bandages Misty’s wrist and tries to restore power to the house. Werther turns out not to be dead and in the meantime takes Misty. Carrying a passive night vision device that amplifies light 60,000 times, he is stunned by a lightning flash and falls off the second floor, coming to his death. Agent Matheson, his assistant agent Williams, and the police finally arrive at the scene, after electronic disinformation by Werther had previously sent them to the other end of town.
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