One of the best of these abduction thrillers is Carla Norton's debut, The Edge of Normal, the story of a former
kidnapping victim who uses her experience to help a fellow victim.
What lifts it above movie - of - the - week status is Lenny Abrahamson's sensitive direction, eliciting powerful performances from Brie Larson as
a kidnapping victim who's been held in a garden shed for seven years and Jacob Tremblay as her 5 - year - old son, whose young mind can't even conceive of a world outside «Room.»
Not exact matches
When we perpetuate the myth that they must be
kidnapped or chained to be trafficked, we confuse those
who are truly
victims, but assume they're not because they can technically walk out the door.
Exodus 21:16 «Anyone
who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the
victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper's possession.»
Musa
who was paraded alongside 10 other members of his syndicate at the Ogun State Police headquarters, confessed that his gang had
kidnapped four
victims and their relatives paid different sums of money for their release.
Makama
who later conducted journalists on an inspection of vehicles, weapons, ammunitions, weeds suspected to be Indian hemp, money and charms said to have been recovered during the August 6, 2016 operation at Gbishe and others, said the police recovered N1m from one of Ghana's boys as part of the ransom on a
victim, Mrs Nwobodo
who was
kidnapped in Katsna - Ala.
During intensive investigation and reach, two male suspects were arrested,
who let out the cat out of the bag as operatives were stunned to discover that the
victim was the architect of the fathom
kidnap.
The hideout located at Omoku in Rivers State also contained a shrine where 10 skulls of
victims of
kidnapping and ritualists»
who had been sacrificed -LSB-...]
Also, the police arrested 2
kidnapping suspects
who forced their
victim to -LSB-...]
«In another coordinated operation based on credible intelligence generated by Operatives of the intelligence Response Team, three members of a dare - devil
kidnap gang that abducted Mrs. Mayo Ohemi, Nichodemus Kadiri and Miss Victoria Abdul from Acharu Egume area of Kogi State were arrested and their confession led to the rescue of the
victims who were incacerated in the kidnapers» camp from where they demanded a ransom of twenty million naira.
«As soon as the
kidnapping incident was over, some Gbagyi and Adara Youths decided to attack the nearest nomadic settlements
who were also
victims of the incident.
On sighting the Operatives, the armed guards
who were stationed by the gang to keep watch over their
victims opened fire on the Police and the operatives responded and overpowered them in a tactical operation that saw three members of the
kidnap gang suffer fatal injuries while their
victim was rescued unhurt.
Obi,
who called on the people of the state to dismiss as a ruse Ngige's claim that he was coming to the governorship seat to strengthen the security of the state, said that it was even ironical that Ngige was also the first
victim of
kidnapping in the state.
The chemistry between Megamind and his fish - like protector Minion (David Case) livens up the screen as does the witty, sarcastic banter between Megamind and his frequent
kidnapping victim, the reporter Roxanne Ritchi (Tina Fey),
who may or may not be Metro Man's girlfriend.
In «Carnage Park,» the surviving perpetrator and the
kidnapping victim of a botched bank robbery become the prey of a crazed Vietnam vet
who has a built a giant prison out of an uninhabited expanse of California desert.
LA detectives are on the hunt for a mysterious serial killer
who kidnaps and kills his
victims.
The film revolves a disgraced cop,
who finds himself in a race against time to find a
kidnap victim.
«Room» actress Brie Larson reveals what she learned from real life
victims who had been
kidnapped and abused.
The story is about a gang of psychopaths
who kidnap and brutalize a couple of teenagers, before unwittingly staying overnight at the same house as one of the
victim's parents.
Kris (Seimetz) is drugged,
kidnapped, her body tampered with, her life taken over, and she is lost until she meets a man, Jeff (Carruth)
who seems to be
victim of the same obscure forces.
The acting in the film is nothing to write home about, and that's a shame considering it stars an Oscar winner (Berry) and an Oscar nominee (Abigail Breslin as the
kidnap victim,
who is disturbingly sexualized in the film).
A former district attorney and her kids are
kidnapped by a man
who has escaped from prison and poses as the
victim of a car accident.
(In English and Pashtu with subtitles) The Human Centipede 2 (Unrated) Howl - inducing horror sequel revolving around a mentally - disturbed loner (Laurence R. Harvey)
who becomes obsessed with replicating the exploits of the diabolical doctor
who created a human centipede in the original by sewing his helpless
kidnap victims together, one behind the other on their knees, in mouth - to - anus fashion.
Scudder hunts two sadists
who kidnap wives and children of drug dealers, figuring their
victims won't call the police.
It's Brooks
who plays gregarious host to the murder mystery party, having contracted specialists to stage a faux
kidnap and ransom of one of the players, with bread - crumb clues and a scavenger hunt to save the «
victim.»
The story of a
kidnap victim's tortuous 15 - year wait to discover
who has framed for the murder of his wife, is no easy watch (at least one octopus was definitely harmed in the making of this film).
«I think he just possesses something that so many other actors don't have, some kind of innate subtlety and sensitivity,» Haigh said of Plummer,
who is soon to appear as wealthy
kidnap victim John Paul Getty III in Ridley Scott's «All the Money in the World.»
Norton is also the author of the true crime bestseller Perfect
Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box, which details the true story of Colleen Stan, a 20 - year - old girl
who was
kidnapped and tortured in captivity for seven years.
The rescue of a
kidnap victim, an Indonesian teenage boy, from an Afghan village, yields a bonus in the form of MacD Lawless, a former U.S. Army Ranger,
who proves of immediate value.
A Book & Movie Review of A House In The Sky by Amanda Lindhout / Sarah Corbett Meet Amanda A House in the Sky is a first - person recount from the
victim of a
kidnapping in Somalia
who was held in captivity for fifteen months.
«We accompany three populations within the world of migration: those
who have been
victims of serious crime like torture,
kidnapping, and imprisonment; solicitors of asylum,
who we accompany in a smaller proportion but also help; and defenders of migrants» human rights,
who've been threatened, displaced, and even killed.»
This is most commonly found in people
who grew up with abusive or neglectful parents, but also happens to
kidnapping victims, prisoners of war, and people in abusive sexual or «romantic» relationships.
The Connecticut statute imposed certain registration requirements upon anyone
who was convicted or found not guilty by reason of a mental defect of certain offenses, which included not only violent and nonviolent sex offenses, but also other nonsexual crimes including those whose
victim is a minor (i.e.,
kidnapping).