Hostage
Year: | 1983 |
Production Co: | Frontier Films |
Director: | Frank Shields |
Producer: | Frank Shields |
Writer: | Frank Shields |
I don't know now what I liked about, but it's based on the true story of Christine Maresch, a happy-go-lucky Australian girl who falls in with a charismatic German guy. Quickly falling under the spell of his pursuit and apparent psychosis, Christine finds herself a prisoner, her husband not only a brutal emotional and physical blackmailer but a neo Nazi.
His treatment of Christine gets worse, and I can't even remember how it ends now, apart from one sign after another that she should have not only left him but slit his throat in his sleep.
Scary, interesting as a historical piece, but what the appeal was to a 17 year old boy is still beyond me.