Strange '60's Thing...

SCARE THEIR PANTS OFF!-1968-A woman is attacked on the street at night. She is saved by a guy who takes her home and then drugs her. She wakes up in a chair where someone in an iron mask and hood talks to her in a Darth Vader like voice. They have sex while the guy who rescued her watches from another room. When the dude takes off his mask his face looks like it was smeared with oatmeal. After the girl faints it's revealed his scarred face was a mask too. Later in a diner, the guy puts something in a woman's drink and she passes out. The guy pretends to be a doctor and somehow the woman wind ups where the previous one was. Only this time the other guy is wearing a fake wig and mustache and a toga talking about a sacrifice to their god. The other guy comes out and does a really weird dance before raping her. Later they drug another woman in a taxi and submit her to a Nazi like interrogation. 

Apparently the two idiots kidnap the women to play out stupid fantasies and then pack them in the back seat of a car send them off to The Statue of Liberty! They go off to plan their next kidnapping. The End. Most of this has the feel of a depraved unfunny comedy short. Filmed in NYC by writer/director John Maddox who also worked on the music documentary MONTEREY POP. Producer Ronald Sullivan went on to make hundreds of porno movies (sometimes under the name Henri Pachard).

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CAPTIVITY-2007-Another in the seemingly unending treadmill of torture-horror-bullshit overrated hits like SAW have inspired. Now more than ever I feel the people who churn out crap like this really need psychiatric help. Don't get me started on the audience!

Jennifer (Elisha Cuthbert from HOUSE OF WAX and THE GIRL NEXT DOOR) is a top fashion model who's drugged at bar and kidnapped and imprisoned by a sadistic nut (Pruitt Taylor Vince). Occasionally she's forced to watch films of the killer torturing previous victims (and also of herself being interviewed). Eventually she meets another captive named Gary (Daniel Gillies; John Jameson in SPIDER-MAN 2). They try to escape a couple of times but don't succeed (unfortunately for the audience). The loony kills her dog and subjects her and Gary to a bunch of disturbing mind games (while watching them on video).

 It has to do with two brothers (Oh! What a giveaway!) who were molested by their druggie mother as kids. Things take a real stupid turn when 2 FBI agents show up. 

One of the screenwriters was Larry Cohen who once made good B-type movies (IT'S ALIVE, THE STUFF, Q). Director Roland Jaffe made films like THE KILLING FIELDS and THE MISSION, so like what happened?

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