The sought-after images of top model Jennifer adorn magazine covers and billboards worldwide. When alone at a club, she is abducted and incarcerated in a cell with another prisoner. When their captor subjects the two to torture, they commit to escaping the chamber of horrors before they're killed.
Acting
Elisha Cuthbert commits to material beneath her
Direction
Joffé's Oscar-nominated talent utterly wasted
Production
Grimy cell aesthetic, competently grim
Director
Roland Joffé
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The MPAA initially rejected the poster for showing a 'torture porn' image of a woman's face behind plastic wrap—unprecedented for marketing controversy.
Released during Hollywood's 'torture porn' boom post-'Saw' and 'Hostel,' this film helped kill the cycle through sheer critical annihilation and box office failure.
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