It’s Friday the 13th, but there is no sign of Jason Voorhees at the Cineplex to help us get our ghoul on. Instead, After Dark Films in association with Lionsgate is releasing Captivity, the latest entry in the torture-horror arena made popular by movies like Saw and Hostel. This one, directed by Roland Joffee, involves a model (House of Wax hottie Elisha Cuthbert) who is kidnapped and battles her captors. Outrage over the film’s billboards that contained taglines like "Abduction," "Confinement," "Termination" and "Torture" prompted the MPAA to censure the ads last spring.
So do you think the studio played it safe this week at the premiere party at Privilege nightclub in West Hollywood with a quiet, understated affair? Yeah, right. Guests walked through a Fangoria-ish funhouse of rooms featuring blood-splattered walls, bowls of gore, strategically placed sharp implements and an array of bondage models wearing little more than electrical tape on their nipples and vinyl microshorts. Dave Navarro sat in a room with a trio of beauties … and dead pigs hanging from hooks (pictured).
Across the club, a raven-haired model had peacock feathers on long needles pierced through her back, giving a new meaning to the phrase “slave to fashion.” There were public whippings aplenty accompanied by seductive dark tunes by the likes of She Wants Revenge, The Bravery, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Goldfrapp and more. A great Grand Guignol for those who like to take a walk on the Goth side, but none of this tells this editor a lick about the quality of Captivity, which wasn’t screened for critics. Bloody hell, indeed.
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Hmmmm sounds about as unique and nuanced as an evening at IKEA, but then I did grow up in San Francisco. ;)