So much for counter programming on a “Harry Potter”-owned box-office weekend. The jackasses behind the notorious torture porn disaster “Captivity” with their misogyny-baiting parties and purposeful exploitation got their comeuppance this weekend as their Elisha Cuthbert torture vehicle couldn’t muster enough receipts to round out the top 10. “Captivity” squeezed out a miserable 1.5 million at the box office.
E! Online wrote:
Best known for a billboard campaign that tried, but failed, to spark audiences to its tagline (and accompanying photos of a distressed Elisha Cuthbert)—”Abduction. Confinement. Torture. Termination”—the so-called torture-porn movie opened, barely, in a relatively sparse 1,050 theaters, grossed an absolutely sparse $1.5 million, finished out of the top 10, and presumably began the wait for its unrated DVD release.
Any way you slice it, the opening was a disaster and after Eli Roth’s “Hostel II” failure pile, this may mean the nail has finally been put in the torture porn coffin.
When the controversy was at it’s peak, prior to the film’s open “Captivity” producer Courtney Solomon tried to capitalize with a Suicide-Girls-esque promotional party that pathetically attempted to set a new standard for the politically incorrect. “The women’s groups definitely will love it,” Mr. Solomon hinted. “I call it my personal little tribute to them.” What a class act.
Ahh, schadenfreude.
