Untraceable (18)
Unspeakable, too, if we're being honest. Diane Lane stars as an FBI agent specialising in internet crime who stumbles onto a sicko website called Killwithme.com.
It seems there's a techie-psychopath out there who's murdering people and streaming it live on the web. To visit the site makes each user an accomplice to murder, providing a pretty dubious moral about how we're all insatiable voyeurs. The problem with Hollywood films condemning the public appetite for torture is that they frequently pander to it, and this is a very lurid and unsavoury example.
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