.com for Murder (2002)

User Rating:

2.5/10   

Director:

Nico Mastorakis

Writers:

Nico Mastorakis (story)
Nico Mastorakis (screenplay) ...

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

In cyberspace no one can hear you scream

Plot:

This high-tech, psychological thriller is set in the shadowy world of the Internet. Sondra Brummel is...

Plot Keywords:

Internet | FBI | Internet Chat | Shower Scene | Video Footage

Cast

Nastassja Kinski	...	Sondra Brummel
Nicollette Sheridan	...	Misty Brummel
Roger Daltrey	...	Ben
Huey Lewis	...	Matheson
Jeffery Dean	...	Werther
Kim Valentine	...	Lynn
Melinda Clarke	...	Michelle Williams
Roger W. Morgan	...	DJ (voice)
Julie Strain	...	Internet Stripper
Vicky Harris	...	Julie
Shelley Michelle	...	Internet Stripper
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Simon Cutmore	...	Woman on the phone (voice)
Sandra Ramírez

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Germany:16 (video premiere) | USA:Unrated | South Korea:18

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Omega Entertainment

Quotes:

Sondra Brummel: Misty, we are such sluts. Let's invite some strangers that we met on the computer over!
Misty Brummel: [sings] Everybody get raped tonight!

Movie Connections:

References Dial M for Murder (1954)

A worth seeing cyber age thriller

This psychological thriller is something like "Rear Window of the cyber age". Nastassja Kinski is the beautiful Sondra Brummel who got stuck in a wheel chair due to some ski accident while her boyfriend Ben (rock singer Roger Daltrey) goes out of town. Misty Brummel (Nicolette Sheridan of "Knots Landing") comes over to help Sondra recover, and the two sisters spend some time together on the web, using Ben's password to sneak in some private chatroom. The Internet chitchats seem to be enjoyable until Sondra and Misty accidentally watch some suspicious guy threaten to rape and kill a girl (Kim Valentine). Not only they fail to convince an FBI agent (pop star Huey Lewis) into thwarting a virtual crime, they even put themselves in serious danger, because the psychotic killer (Jeffrey Dean) happens to be a vicious hacker who wastes no time tracking them down to their own residence...

Obviously scriptwriter and director Nico Mastorakis has done everything to make this movie an entertaining high-tech thriller. The website stripping scenes with porn star Julie Strain and "body double" Shelley Michelle are just appetizers to a lot of exciting and mysterious features that we can expect from (and should be watchful about) the Internet, and the digital visual effects and sounds do help make them more believable. As always, Nastassja Kinski gives a solid performance, while Nicolette Sheridan and the rest of the cast do their best as well (even Melinda Clarke is pretty cool in her minor role as FBI agent Williams). Although the DVD doesn't have any special features or commentaries, etc..., its widescreen and Dolby sound suffice to make ".com for Murder" a not-so-perfect but worth seeing movie. If you think such high-tech thrillers as "Hackers" or "StrangeLand" are good, you may like this one because it's somehow better.