By Katherine Ramsland

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Solomon announced an opening night party with a raffled date with three infamous "SuicideGirls," to be broadcast via the Internet. He also planned to have people dressed in S&M torture gear wander around a West Hollywood club. That, too, made news. There's no doubt, Captivity generated buzz.

Yet the main character of this film, and most other films like it, is not a victim or even a serial killer; it's the dark side of human invention. What one person can think up to do to another can be truly atrocious. While the movie offers little development in terms of character or plot, it does serve as a reminder that there are people who live to torment others and there are innocent victims who suffer for it. Anyone can be at the wrong place at the wrong time to be grabbed. In fact, allegedly, the 850,000 people who are missing around the country every year served as the movie's inspiration. Certainly, they're not all subjected to such torture, but as we've discovered, some are, and few if any find assistance from their dream date.

Daniel Gillies (Gary)

There's plenty of gross-out in the course of 80-plus minutes, but in the end it's not just a story, it's a testament to human depravity. Despite screenwriter Larry Cohen's attempts to dress it all up as a hot, sexy game from which, finally, there's an escape, in fact, we leave the theater knowing that other such movies will follow because audiences want them. We have to wonder why.

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