By Katherine Ramsland
(Continued) In another case, David Parker Ray kept a "toy box" in New Mexico, a trailer in which he raped and tortured women with all manner of sexual implements, while in Kansas City, Robert Berdella bound and tormented a series of young men for his pleasure and kept detailed notes. After killing them, he dumped their parts in the garbage. What's different about these brutal slavemasters is that they liked their torture up close and personal, not from an observer's distance. They had not devised high tech cages but had instead found ways to get right into their victims' faces as they applied various creative implements. All were discovered because someone managed to escape. How many such situations there actually are is anyone's guess.
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| Elisha Cuthbert (Jennifer) |
In Captivity, Jennifer tries to resist her possssive captor and to outthink him, but of course he has all the advantages. He has her in a cage of his own design, knows when things will happen and where cameras are placed, and controls the choreography of events, while she's left guessing and unable to find resources — except for Gary, the handsome hunk in the next cell (Daniel Gillies). At this point, it seems a bit strange that she manages to fall for him while she's panicking over whether she will live or die, but there it is. Together they brainstorm about what to do.
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| Captivity Poster |
Before this film was even released, it was already controversial. Parents' and women's groups objected to explicit ads for Captivity placed on public display in Los Angeles and New York. When the incident was investigated, entrepreneur Courtney Solomon, owner of After Dark Films, claimed that the wrong materials had been sent to the printer and the billboards and posters were already up before anyone realized the mistake (yeah, we believe that). The MPAA suspended the ratings process for a month, and without a rating, the movie would not get distribution, so it missed its original release date in May. Then Bob Weinstein traded its next date, June 22, for 1408, so Captivity ended up as a mid-July release.
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