Real Life Horror To Become A Film

Message 1292 of 3898

Ad image for one of director Ryan's previous films

BY Robert Dominguez
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, November 18th 2009, 11:41

The kidnapping of the California girl who was held captive for 18 years by a convicted rapist is being turned into a movie - by a horror director whose credits include such low-budget films as "Amateur Porn Star Killer" and "Romance Road Killers" - and she and her loved ones are outraged.

The family of Jaycee Dugard, who was found alive this August after having been snatched off the street at age 11, expressed their strong objections to the filmmaker's plans through a representative.

"There is only one true and factual story to be told," said spokeswoman Nancy Seltzer according to etonline.com. "If and when Jaycee and her family think it is appropriate, their story will be told by them, in a forum of their choosing with the respect and thoughtfulness they so deserve. Anyone else speculating about the details of such a personal hurt, for financial gain, is exploitive, hurtful and breathtakingly unkind."

The film maker, Shane Ryan, said he planned to begin shooting the movie next month. Titled "Abducted Girl, An American Sex Slave," the story will reportedly focus on the relationship between Dugard, now 30, and Phillip Garrido, who is accused of raping her and fathering the girl's two children while she was held captive in a decrepit compound of shacks and tents in Garrido's backyard in Antioch, Calif. Garrido's wife, Nancy, has also been charged.

"We want to capture how sad this story is, but also how interesting," Ryan told a Sacramento TV station. "We're trying to figure out a way to do that so it's not exploitative."

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NOTE FROM PT: This fellow Ryan has also made a film called "Warning! Pedophile Released". I read another article about him in which he stated that he made his film "Amateur Porn Star Killer" in one day for only $20 and got national distribution. I don't know whether his other films are based on real life events (I hope not). I'm curious to hear people's opinions -- I can certainly understand why Jaycee and her family are upset that this little vulture is turning their suffering into entertainment. On the other hand, isn't censoring a film a bad precedent to set? What I'd say to Ryan is -- why can't you make another cheesy flick about something fictitious? Why do you have to do something that will hurt living people?

posted by ponytail

Somehow, I get the feeling this cheesy flick WILL be mostly fictitious.

posted by CaptainSacto
over 2 years ago

I find this completely appalling and in very poor taste. This man obviously has no taste or morals at all.
That being said - I do not like censorship of any kind. What bothers me is that this guy makes these types of things and they would probably just die on their own, but he gets publicity because of the nature of his films, and of course is going to make money from other peoples tragadies - vey sad indeed.

posted by Dottielu
over 2 years ago

You should read the member reviews of the Pornstar Killer series on IMDB...
At least very few people, of the very few who've watched that dreck, give them more than one star, and the majority seem to wish they could give it negative stars.

posted by CaptainSacto
over 2 years ago

BTW...
I live in the county where the trial is to be held. There's a least a chance I could wind up on the jury.

posted by CaptainSacto
over 2 years ago

Yeah, I think the family is just playing into the guy's hands by objecting to it -- they're inadvertently just drawing attention to his crappy film. I remember in the 70s there were gay demonstrations against William Friedkin's film "Cruising," with Al Pacino, that ended up promoting the movie. In that case, though, it was actually a fairly good film -- people objected to it showing violence against gay people, but it wasn't advocating the violence, just depicting it. Hate crimes against gay people do happen in real life, and it would have made more sense to use the film as an educational opportunity.

This movie, on the other hand, is guaranteed garbage. I wouldn't want to have the director's karma.

posted by ponytail
over 2 years ago

Too bad the family is not Islamic, then they could put a fauta(?) on the director and the producer(s).