A “very disturbing” true-crime movie branded “dreary torture porn” is getting released in the UK after six years.
Later this month, Paramount+ will add the film, titledGirl in the Box, to its streaming library.
However, it’s being noted that this film is not a new release and actually premiered on Lifetime in the US back in 2016.
The film tells the real-life story of a girl named Colleen Stan (Addison Timlin) who, while hitchhiking in 1977, is kidnapped and kept in a coffin-sized box for 23 hours a day.
When her captors, married couple Cameron and Janice Hooker, let her out of the box, they abuse her. Colleen’s ordeal lasted for seven years, during which time she was tortured and forced to sign a “slave contract”.
Having been manipulated by Cameron (Zane Holtz) into believing there were outside forces preventing her escape, she was finally encouraged to escape by Janice, who...
Later this month, Paramount+ will add the film, titledGirl in the Box, to its streaming library.
However, it’s being noted that this film is not a new release and actually premiered on Lifetime in the US back in 2016.
The film tells the real-life story of a girl named Colleen Stan (Addison Timlin) who, while hitchhiking in 1977, is kidnapped and kept in a coffin-sized box for 23 hours a day.
When her captors, married couple Cameron and Janice Hooker, let her out of the box, they abuse her. Colleen’s ordeal lasted for seven years, during which time she was tortured and forced to sign a “slave contract”.
Having been manipulated by Cameron (Zane Holtz) into believing there were outside forces preventing her escape, she was finally encouraged to escape by Janice, who...
- 9/4/2022
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
Lifetime has greenlighted the original movie Girl in the Bunker, based on the true story of Elizabeth Shoaf, who was abducted in 2006 and held captive in a hidden underground bunker. From Girl in the Box‘s writer-director-executive producer Steven Kemp and executive producer Charles Tremayne, the dark, psychological drama stars Henry Thomas (E.T.), Julia Lalonde (Anne of Green Gables) and Moira Kelly (One Tree Hill).
Set to premiere at 8 Pm on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, the film will be followed at 10 Pm by the docu-special Elizabeth Shoaf: The Girl in a Bunker, which recounts the terrifying true story in Shoaf’s own words. Featuring news footage and interviews with firsthand accounts from Shoaf, her parents and police officials, the special takes viewers through Shoaf’s journey to a new beginning.
The description, per Lifetime: While Elizabeth (Lalonde) is walking home from the school bus stop, a man dressed as...
Set to premiere at 8 Pm on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, the film will be followed at 10 Pm by the docu-special Elizabeth Shoaf: The Girl in a Bunker, which recounts the terrifying true story in Shoaf’s own words. Featuring news footage and interviews with firsthand accounts from Shoaf, her parents and police officials, the special takes viewers through Shoaf’s journey to a new beginning.
The description, per Lifetime: While Elizabeth (Lalonde) is walking home from the school bus stop, a man dressed as...
- 4/5/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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