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Charlie (Jennifer Sky), Emma (Laura Regan), Matt (Sean CW Johnson),
Danny (Stephen O'Reilly) & Rex (Kris Lemche) are, for a
reality-internet-webcast, locked together inside a house in the middle
of nowhere & have to stay in for 6 months in order to get their
hands on 1 million Dollars, & if only one of them leaves the house
before that time, they all end up empty handed. But as the 6 months draw
to a close, the (never actually seen, anonymous) company behind the
webcast seems more & more reluctant to pay up, as they start to
seriously annoy the five, tearing them apart. It starts with them
getting bricks instead of their provisions, along with a note that
Danny's grandfather died & the funeral is just days before
the 6 months are over (hence no money for all of them). Danny can - of
course - be persuaded to stay, & the five of them start to believe
the company is playing tricks on them. Their suspicions are further
nurtured when on the next day, along with the provisions, they get a gun
with 5 bullets, one for each, & when Emma wakes up the next day, she
finds a bloody hammer beside her on her pillow. Though they are wuite
sure this is all the making of the company, they get more & more at
each others thjroats, & when, that very same evening, a stranger,
Travis (Bradley Cooper), drops by who seems terribly unfazued by all the
webcams installed everywhere & has no problems getting Charlie laid,
that doesn't help the situation all that much either, rather making all
the male participants jealous. Travis leaves the very next day, but to
their horror, they soon find his bloody backpack just nearby ... &
then Danny hangs himself. But the quintet are still very reluctant to
leave the house, a mere day before they can get the money. But, they
have finally found a way to get online & are now looking for their
own site ... which proves to be incredibly hard to find & is finally
revealed to be nothing more than an illegal betting & possible snuff
site. Finally, the surviving quartet is really alerted & they decide
to post guards for the last night, but while guarding, Matt
suddenly kills Charlie with a plastic bag & soon afterwards
decapitates Rex with an axe - it turns out he is a psycho-killer,
planted by the company among the others to really give the subscribers
to the site their money's worth. Emma is still ignorant to that fact
though & is thus willing to lock herself in with Matt when he tells
her they are under attack. But when she rejects to having sex with him,
he wants to kill her, too, but in the ensueing struggle, she can gethis
gun & wound him. When she escapes to the outside, a policecar
arrives & she even thinjks she is saved ... until she is badly
wounded & locked in by the cop (Nick Mennell) of course, who was
part of the company's plan all along, actually the company is just him
& Travis, & to not leave any witnesses behind, he soon shoots
collaborator Matt, then finishing off Emma. The winner is the company
... & the perverse snuff-site subscriber who got his money's worth. Interestingb
thriller based on reality-tv & -webcast formats, in which ordinary
people would do just about everything to get their undeserved 15 minutes
of fame - acutally, this is almost a cynical satire, devoid of any irony
though. To heighten the webcast-aspects of the story, the
camerawork of the movie resembles that of mounted webcams (with the
automatic zoom of the cameras audible on many an occasion), & the
whole screen is designed rather like an internet site than an actual
movie screen, with the actual goings-on just filling a quarter of it
while the rest is taken up by various buttons & the betting rates
for the cast.
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