Movie · 2018 · Drama, TV Movie, Crime · 1h 27m · PG-13 · English
Curator score: 5.7/10 (19.7K ratings)
Overview
On the night she plans on taking her own life, 17-year-old 'Lisa McVey' is kidnapped and finds herself fighting to stay alive and is raped. She manages to talk her attacker into releasing her, but when she returns home, no one believes her story except for one detective, who suspects she was abducted by a serial killer. Based on horrifying true events.
Ratings
Curator score: 5.7/10
IMDb: 7.2/10
TMDB: 8.0/10
Director
Jim Donovan
Production
Cineflix Productions
Cast
Katie Douglas, David James Elliott, Rossif Sutherland, Amanda Arcuri, Chris Owens, Bruno Verdoni, Megan Fahlenbock, Leo Petrus, Jamie Robinson, Kim Horsman, Marvin Hinz, Deanna Interbartolo, Kiera Scharf, Catherine Tait, Kerry Griffin, Milton Barnes, Zach Smadu, Nneka Elliott, Christopher Marren, Patrice Goodman
Where to watch
Hulu, Lifetime Movie Club
Curator Review
Verdict
A tense, upsetting true-crime survival drama anchored by a strong lead performance and a compelling victim-centered perspective. It’s worth watching if you want a fact-based abduction story with emotional stakes, but the TV-movie presentation and familiar procedural beats keep it from feeling fully distinctive.
Best for
true-crime viewers
survival drama fans
audiences interested in victim-centered stories
viewers who don’t mind made-for-TV aesthetics
Skip if
you’re sensitive to rape/abduction content
you want polished theatrical filmmaking
you prefer subtle, character-driven crime dramas over procedural true-story retellings
Overview
This is one of those true-crime films that lives or dies on the viewer’s tolerance for grim subject matter and TV-movie execution. The story itself is harrowing and inherently gripping, and the film’s greatest strength is its focus on Lisa’s intelligence, resilience, and ability to outthink her captor under impossible pressure.
Worth noting
Katie Douglas gives the movie real urgency, and the ending’s emphasis on the real Lisa McVey adds a hard-earned emotional payoff. The detective subplot also gives the film a procedural spine, though it can feel schematic and a little too neatly assembled compared with the horror of the events it depicts.
Bottom line
As a piece of filmmaking, it’s functional rather than memorable: efficient, earnest, and occasionally blunt. But as a victim-centered survival story, it lands because the central ordeal is so extraordinary and because the film refuses to treat Lisa as passive in her own story.
Top Letterboxd reviews
senna laura (2.5★) · 1296 likes
fuck the female police officers who didn't believe her and thought she was making this whole thing up...FUCK THEM!!
yazi 🇵🇸 · 648 likes
this mf after kidnapping, assaulting, r*ping and murdering numerous innocent women: there’s something wrong with me i know that 💔😔
anjelica (3.5★) · 562 likes
why the fuck did no one believe her???? no one would make that shit up for shits and giggles, fuck the police
earfp (3.5★) · 395 likes
why do men
claire <3 (3★) · 325 likes
it sucks that katie douglas acting has been reduced to fucking ginny and georgia because she is genuinely so talented and needs to be recognized more
2016 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 1h 52m · R · Curator 1.7/10 (438.1K ratings) · Where to watch: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
A darker, trauma-inflected mystery about credibility, memory, and the way women’s testimony is dismissed.
Topics
true crime, survival thriller, rape-revenge-adjacent, kidnapping, procedural drama, trauma, female resilience, made-for-TV, serial killer, based on a true story