I’m not really fully digging the short hair look on Diane Lane, for whom I would otherwise happily spend an afternoon washing her car (seriously, no creepy subtext… I’d just wash her car for her), but it’s not merely that which weighs down the trailer for Untraceable, a techno-thriller January 25 release from Sony Screen Gems.

The keyboard-tapping and killer-stalking-his-stalker moves all seem a bit familiar, and the boilerplate dialogue doesn’t really get one’s heart racing. Still, the film gets a bit of a benefit-of-the-doubt pass because of the involvement of director Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear), who can tease slickly efficient genre thrills out of recognizable set-ups, as he most recently did in Fracture, which was anchored by (yet another) superlative performance from Ryan Gosling. In short, my belief in Hoblit’s deftness of touch outweighs the nasty taste of Pulse and other stupid Internet thrillers still in my mouth that this trailer tangentially summons forth. The unfussy poster, meanwhile, I kind of dig: graphically simple and to the point, it sells the movie’s concept in direct fashion, and that’s refreshing. Not sure if they went with a kitschy mirror in theaters though, as I haven’t seen one there.