
Remember that
Elisha Cuthbert flick that was causing
all sorts of uproar because of his MPAA-rejected billboards that (somehow) got plastered all over California
anyway? Well, it sure looks like Lionsgate is feeling no ill effects from the
marketing gimmick ratings board's disapproval, because
Captivity is still locked in for a May 18 release date. (That'd place it opposite
Shrek the Third, although I highly doubt they're going for the same audience.) ComingSoon.net's
new horror site has the first look at the just-released
Captivity trailer, and while it doesn't give up much in the plot department, it is overloaded with screechy sound effects and a lot of Cuthbert cleavage. Plus you just gotta love how Lionsgate managed to incorporate the "billboard controversy" in the
Captivity marketing campaign.
Although the "abduct & torture" motif might feel like it comes from a rough and grungy young upstart, the flick actually comes from a pair of seasoned pros: The director is
Roland Joffe, who once directed
The Killing Fields,
The Mission and ...
The Scarlet Letter. (Yikes.) The screenwriter is
Larry Cohen, old-school genre pro who also penned
Cellular,
Phone Booth and a
wholebunchofsolidgenreflicks from the 1970s and '80s. The plot synopsis sounds a whole lot like the original
Saw, only this one's a whole lot different: One of the abductees is a
female. (And what a female she is!)