With a month gone since we saw a trailer for Chris Shadley’s cool looking mystery/thriller NINE DEAD, we finally have a kickass new poster for the damn thing!
Making his directorial debut after serving as video assist operator on such big budget outings as CLOVERFIELD and SPIDER-MAN 2, Shadley turns his crime laden first feature about:
A masked gunman on the prowl, kidnapping seemingly random victims without hesitation or remorse. First, a Vegas club owner, then a Hollywood actor, then a Los Angeles District Attorney; all taken in the blink of an eye with expert precision. The police are helpless and baffled by the kidnapper’s motive, even as one of their own detectives falls victim to the one-man crime-wave. The true number of kidnapped victims and the assailant’s motive comes to a haunting reality when nine strangers find themselves handcuffed to nine separate poles in a bunker built by the masked gunman who is hell bent on revenge.
But the gun in his hand and the threat of death are just tools in his forced act of attrition. If the Gunman is going to succeed, he needs someone to live. “I have brought the nine of you here for a reason. Your survival depends on you figuring out what that reason is. I will leave you alone for you discussions but I will return over ten minutes and kill one of you until you figure out why I have brought you here, or until you are all dead.” And with his single deadly statement, the gunman closes the bunker door, leaving the nine strangers scared, desperate and unsure of who will be the first one killed or if any will live.
They confess their worst crimes, sins and innermost fears hoping to find the connection that will keep them alive. As each ten-minute period expires, the gunman re-enters the bunker and asks his one simple question. “Why are you here?” If they don’t have every piece of his twisted puzzle, a single gunshot kills one of the nine, resetting the clock giving survivors another chance to uncover the gunman’s truth. Criminals, everyday citizens, a cop, a lawyer and a priest have all been extracted from their lives and thrust into a world of betrayal, deceit and murder.
Unsure who to trust and what to believe, the nine must rely on each other before the clock on the next victims life runs down to zero. Can their differences and prejudices be put asides? Will the answers come out? Who of the nine lives and who dies? Only time will tell. You have ten minutes.
And with that, just about the longest plot synopsis we may have ever seen, how can you say you’re not the least bit intrigued by this flick? Even if an abysmal failure (which is always a good possibility), it sounds pretty damn sweet. Seriously!
NINE DEAD hits DVD in January of 2010.