Product Details

• Actors: Gabrielle Anwar, William Forsythe, Tony Todd, Frank Grillo, Terri Colombino
• Directors: Robbie Bryan
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: ANCHOR BAY
• DVD Release Date: October 13, 2009
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002GRMVIO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #158,550 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "iMurders" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Gabrielle Anwar,Billy Dee Williams
Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 10/13/09
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Won Best Picture at Chicago Horror Fest!, September 30, 2009

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Jym Cherry "Writing Under The Influence of Ro... (Wheaton, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: iMurders (DVD)

I saw iMurders at the Chicago Horror festival where some of the cast and crew was in attendance and director Robbie Bryan was awarded the best feature length picture of the festival.

iMurders is about seven friends who are members of a chat room on FaceSpace, a combination of Facebook and Myspace, one of their number is a Hollywood special effects artist with a flare for the theatrical and every month he invents a new game for them to play. When they start playing his latest game, members of the chatroom start turning up dead, and in gruesome ways. While none of the murders is especially explicit there is a fair amount of gore but most of the shock is supplied by quick edits and what you think you may see. I don't think it will disappoint enthusiasts of the genre.

The casting is also outstanding. William Forsthye stars and his voice and his presence on screen is a sinister menace. Another casting coup is Charles Durning with a small role as a psychiatrist. And Tony Todd of Candyman fame extends his horror credentials here, but not as the murderer (that would be too obvious!) plays FBI agent Washington, who is trying to solve the mystery before the entire chatroom is murdered.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars iLiked it!, October 16, 2009

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Matt (Denver, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: iMurders (DVD)

iMurders is a film about a small group of cyber-friends that meet-up once a week for an online chat. In their voice/video/text chats, the host (a special effects artist) chooses a game to play that lasts all month long. The winner of the final round gets a prize from the host's memorabilia collection.

But being iMurders, things obviously go a lot further than that premise. The month's game is supposed to be a Survivor style game, in which chat members are "knocked off" one by one for saying the pre-determined code word. However, the host of this game is very quickly incapacitated, and the self-ordained replacement host decides the new rules of staying alive in this game.

This film struck me with the number of character actors present... it runs the gamut from Tony Todd and Frank Grillo to the wonderful Gabrielle Anwar. However, even though those names get first billing, the spotlight here is placed on the less recognizable actors, such as Terri Colombino (the lead in iMurders).

Ironically, Colombino bears a striking resemblance to Diane Lane, star of the similarly-themed (if much worse film) Untraceable.

So, with all of these familiar actors finally getting their due, does the film do them justice? For the most part, it actually does! The plot is very interesting, and more interweaving than it seems to be in the first hour of the movie. There haven't been many good movies made about the dangers of "cyber-friends" that you've never met in person. And while the line-writing struggles to express any character's knowledge of the internet (multiple characters stiffly insert the word "computer" in front of other technology-based words, just in case you don't know what a chat room or keyboard is), ultimately the plot matters more than the believability.

By the end, you only have so many options for who the chat room killer may be, and the reveal came way out of left field. It doesn't explain everything in the end though, which leaves you hanging with some plot gaps (such as the FBI's immediate knowledge of the chat room... the FBI didn't even know how to stop 9/11 from happening, so you can't tell me they caught on to the chat room the second its visitors started becoming victims), but I can forgive some things ultimately because the rest of the movie makes up for it easily.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars How Brooke Lewis and Tony Todd ALMOST saved this film!, December 5, 2009

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Trevor Wright (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: iMurders (DVD)

Being a big fan of indie films, especially horror and suspense, I had heard a lot of talk about iMurders. So I bought it sight unseen. It should have been a rental. I would love to explain the plot (s) to you but I'm afraid if I even attempt it my head will explode. Yes, it's that nonsensical! Something about a contest amongst webcam friends and then there is a murderer picking them off one by one. Oh, and then Charles Durning and some Asian chick show up in therapy sessions followed by Billy Dee Williams and Gabrielle Anwar doing something else. But then William Forsythe comes in as a horny college professor followed by the star of the film (some blonde, I forget her name) who happens to be dating the guy down the hall (a reclusive former cop) ... oh, and then some more stuff happens. Look, rent this movie and if you have to buy it buy it for the fact that the hottest actress in recent memory, Brooke Lewis (no offense, Jennifer Love Hewitt) shows that she's not only great to look at but that she can hold her own with the big boys, namely Tony Todd, yes Candyman himself. Together, they're FBI partners on the trail of the film's killer. Which by the way is the only subplot that made a lick of sense. I would love to see a movie with just Brooke Lewis and Tony Todd playing the same roles but in a MUCH better film with MUCH more screen time. They ALMOST saved this movie from being a waste, and would have, had they had more time to showcase their talents. Rent it.