Go Shelley, go!Īnd we also have the torture porn shockers where males are targets for fiends like Hostel (2005) about American male backpackers who are tricked into traveling to Slovakia for “hot chicks” only to find themselves victims of decadent rich killers in Eli Roth’s chilling tribute to Abu Ghraib. Does Shelley Winters give a subtle, nuanced, delicate performance? Hell no, thank God. She captures and imprisons in a cage the man she holds responsible for her daughter’s unhappiness ( Bradford Dillman). ”Kitty, kitty, kitty….”Ī memorably loony made-for-TV movie- Revenge! (1971) stars an unrestrained Shelley Winters as the grief-stricken mother of daughter who committed suicide. The last twenty minutes are so horrifying, hair-raising you won’t believe what you’re seeing. But what’s with that twitching tied-up burlap sack in her apartment? What no one realizes is that Asami has experienced nightmarish abuse and is a bit touchy of men who trick her, no matter how seemingly innocuous. When he meets the shy beautiful Asami ( Eihi Shiina) he is immediately smitten. With the help of a film producer friend they advertise for actresses for a nonexistent movie so he can check out the prospects. Takashi Miike’s harrowing Audition (1999) is about a middle-aged widower ( Ryo Ishibashi) who is encouraged by his teenage son to find a new wife. If it proves to be the case Tom intends to kill him. He kidnaps, ties up Dan and extracts blood from him to see if he has the HIV strain that infected him. In The 24 th Day (2004), Tom ( Scott Speedman) holds Dan ( James Marsden) responsible for exposing him to HIV which Tom passed on to his wife with deadly results. “I want you on my show,” she sardonically says. She kidnaps him at knifepoint, ties him up and humiliates him on camera for her own psychotic reality series. I always felt bad for the writers of these films having to top themselves with more intricate, Rube Goldberg-like torture machines.Ī sleazy, womanizing, reality-show producer fatally sleeps with a woman who turns out to be his stalker in Night Vision (2011). In the influential horror film by James Wan that spawned countless sequels (and an upcoming reboot), Saw (2003), two men wake up chained in an underground room courtesy of serial killer Jigsaw who kidnaps bad people and creates fiendish contraptions for them to get out of to prove themselves worthy of a second chance. Ellen (Elliot) Page is inspired and incandescent on screen in this marvelously unnerving movie. But suddenly the tables are turned as Haley begins to reveal she has a deadly agenda of her own. In this fiendish, scalpel-sharp, thriller Hard Candy (2005) directed by David Slade, 14-year-old Haley ( Ellen Page), sets up a meet with Jeff ( Patrick Wilson), a photographer, after some lengthy internet interplay, and he invites her back to his place. He befriends a pretty sushi chef and tries to find answers about his forced captivity, which leads him down a darker rabbit hole. In the South Korean shocker- Oldboy (2003), Drunken businessman Oh Dae-su ( Choi Min-suk) is mysteriously kidnapped and imprisoned in a room for 15 years. Joan Collins plays the sexually frustrated wife, and pretty soon the family implodes, especially when they begin to suspect the man might be innocent. But when the suspected killer is set free for lack of evidence, the family decide to exact their own justice by kidnapping, beating and tying up the suspect in the basement. In the British film- Revenge (1971), the rape and death of a young girl has fractured the family of a pub owner. And for some of these films that’s what lies at the heart of the plot. I don’t know about you but, for me, there’s nothing like lying in bed at night plotting revenge. Thinking that over, I was a bit surprised to discover that there are actually quite a few films with dudes in distress, manacled and miserable. But why does it always have to be women? Why aren’t cute guys target for drooling sickos on screen? Like they are in Hollywood. Don’t you weary of films and TV procedurals where women are walking down a darkened street only to be abducted by a psycho killer? You know that it’s going to go either two ways, and even a rescue is not entirely a happy ending.
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