Untraceable

Film Review by Kevin McHugh | 20 Jun 2008
Film title: Untraceable
Director: Gregory Holbit
Starring: Diane Lane, Billy Burke, Colin Hanks
Release date: 23 Jun 2008
Certificate: 18

We've all visited websites we shouldn't have, usually late at night when we're on our own and feeling a little lonely. The makers of Untraceable have taken the taboo to the next level with an exceptionally gory thriller. Diane Lane stars as the head of an FBI internet task force whose job it is to investigate illegal websites. One day she receives a tip regarding a new site where people are filmed on a webcam being slowly killed. The hook is, the more people who log on, the faster they're bumped off, and in ever more inventive and gruesome ways. Director Holbit, of last year's enjoyable Fracture, has crafted a chilly, dark and atmospheric thriller. Not your typical torture porn, it's not the gore that disturbs so much as the unsettling thought that it's probably only a matter of time before a website like this really appears.

An entertaining thriller for the Youtube generation.