Bloodtype Online

    Diane Lane(Unfaithful) plays Jennifer Marsh, the head of the FBI's cyber crime division. Her and her partner Griffin Dowd (Colin Hanks, Band of Brothers and Toms kid) are in charge of tackling the cyber crimes in Oregon i.e. internet predators and credit card frauds. When just another day at the office turns into something beyond their wilds imagination, the duo must hook up with local detective Eric Box (Billy Burke, Fracture) to stop a homicidal maniac.

    One day a tip is given to the FBI"S cyber unit about a guy torturing a cat via live feed on killwithme.com. As Marsh looks into the tip, she witnesses a cat stuck to a glue trap and starve to death for everyone to see. When they try to shut down the domain, they find that the twisted bastard is using different addresses from different computers to broadcast it all while remaining

    Realizing this was bait to get peoples attention, they knew it wouldn't be long before he moved on to bigger better things like people. After the cat was killed, the site went down only to return with a human held captive in some sort of Jigsawesque torture device that leaks a blood thinner via IV into the bloodstream. The anti-coagulant increases as the site receives more and more hits.

    As more victims fall to this internet predator, one is able to blink morris code with the address of his location. But the killer is one step ahead and relocated his victim and sits back to watch the FBI get so close but yet remain so far away. The killer even ups the ante but attempting to victimize one the cyber crime units very own.

    Untraceable is the latest clever attempt to top the death via electronics corner of the horror genre. In the age of ebay and email addresses, director Gregory Hoblit (Fracture, Frequency) uses the internet and its voyeurs as accomplis to murder. Every login is another nail in the victims coffin. Diane Lane and Colin Hanks compliment each other great as the computer cops while Billy Burke holds down solo as the tough street detective.

Jim Cain