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Caught in the Web

Synopsis

"Caught in the Web" is a psychological horror/thriller following the investigations of a series of teen suicides. What the detective soon learns, is that they are not suicides, but homicides. The killers use the internet as a weapon, trapping the girls in a "suicide support" website and gaining the trust under the alias "Julie". They rape and murder their victims, making it look like suicide using evidence on the website of depression, and forged suicide notes. The case becomes personal for the detective when his daughter becomes their next victim, but will he stop them in time? Or will he also get caught in the web?

Preliminary Task

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Research into similar genres

Again, I had put this on the group blog, so refer to that if there is any stuff you want to see, (look for the "Laura" label..) We watched a few openings, but it was hard to find the actual openings that weren't remakes by random people. We looked at films with suicide as a theme, and there were only about 20 or so.
This is a list of "films about suicide" according to Wikipedia.

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  • The Bridge (2006 film)
  • Dead Man on Campus
  • The Happening (2008 film)
  • Harold and Maude
  • Hatter's Castle (film)
  • Heathers
  • The Kovak Box
  • Last Days (film)
  • Leaving Las Vegas
  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
  • On the Beach (1959 film)
  • Psychomania
  • Rails & Ties
  • The Sea Inside
  • Suicide Club (film)
  • Taste of Cherry
  • The Chumscrubber
  • Der Todesking
  • The Virgin Suicides (film)

We chose three of these to watch clips from (the openings) and we looked at the trailers to get an idea of the feel of the film. Surprisingly the ones we watched didn't have a very sinister air about them in the opening.. (this is all on the group blog)

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