Nine Dead

2010 Ontological Mystery Drama in which nine people with apparently no connection to each other are kidnapped, and told that one of them will die every 10 minutes unless they can tell him(their captor) why they are all there.

As an Ontological Mystery, much of this page is spoiler-tagged. Highlight at your own risk.


 * Amoral Attorney:
 * Asshole Victim:
 * Deadpan Snarker: Sully. Coogan and Leon also have their moments.
 * Even Evil Has Standards:
 * Sully and Leon aren't particularly nice guys, but even they are disgusted at the Ax Crazy Coogan
 * Even Sully is disgusted when Kelley reveals
 * Extremely Short Timespan: Aside from a few short scenes at the beginning about how the nine captives were abducted, the entire film takes place over the course of about 80 minutes.
 * Face Death with Dignity:.
 * Faux Affably Evil: Sully. Coogan to a far more passive aggresive degree.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: It's Sabrina!
 * Irrational Hatred: The captor has this towards most of the captives, as he simply seems to be looking for someone, anyone to blame for.
 * Jerkass: Basically everyone, but Leon, Sully and Coogan pretty much take the cake.
 * Law of Inverse Fertility:
 * Loan Shark: Sully
 * Plot Hole: The captor's plan largely depends on him knowing information that he simply did not possess or had access to.
 * Politically-Incorrect Villain: Sully.
 * Ontological Mystery
 * No Ending: The film ends with
 * Shut UP, Hannibal:  gets an incredible speech, before he dies, telling his captor that he doesn't care about his vengeance and dies a happy man.
 * Redemption Equals Death:.
 * Shut UP, Hannibal:  gets an incredible speech, before he dies, telling his captor that he doesn't care about his vengeance and dies a happy man.
 * Redemption Equals Death:.