Despite a super-controversial ad campaign and the fact that it stars Elisha Cuthbert, the young woman who played Jack Bauer’s hottie daughter in Fox TV’s 24, the torture/horror flick Captivity bombed at the U.S. box office on it’s opening weekend.

It earned less than $1.6 million in the U.S.

One thing I found very interesting was the fact that it brought in 2 1/2 times more money overseas (almost $3.9 million) than it did stateside. I guess since other countries are supposed to be more “enlightened” than we six-pack guzzling denizens of the U S of A, that must mean that enjoying torture on the big screen makes you a better person?

Oh, take it easy, I’m kidding.

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I just have to chime in on this one…

After Dark Films is being punished (for lack of a better word) by the MPAA for publishing an ad campaign for the upcoming film Captivity which caused an outcry from a ton of folks. You’ve probably heard about it: After Dark Films hired an ad agency to create a campaign for the upcoming film starring Elisha Cuthbert. The ad company came up with some billboard ads that depicted Cuthbert at various stages during the movie, with the captions “Abduction”, “Confinement”, “Torture” and “Termination”. Each caption had an image underneath it, with each image progressively more unsettling than the one before. I will not put the image in-line with this post, but you can view it by clicking here.

The film is along the lines of Hostel and Saw in that it is a captive/torture film.