When Jaycee Lee Dugard was 11 she was abducted from a bus stop outside her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. The search to recover her was frantic but fruitless and it seemed like the little girl would be lost to her family forever. That is until a now 29-year-old Dugard was able to emerge from her captor and alert authorities as to the unbelievable life she had been forced to endure since her kidnapping. For 18 years she was held against her will by a psychotic husband and wife duo who repeatedly abused and raped her, which resulted in Dugard giving birth to two of her captor's children, the first of whom would have been born when the poor girl was 14 years old.

It's a hell of a frightening story and now it's set to become the subject of a film called Abducted Girl, An American Sex Slave, only unlike most biographic pictures, the family of Jaycee Dugard desperately wishes it wouldn't exist. A representative for the family explained, "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 exploitative, hurtful and breathtakingly unkind."

And if you have any doubt that the maker of Abducted Girl, Shane Ryan, has anything but exploitative ambitions, take a look at his no-budget, z-grade horror movie filmography: Amateur Porn Star Killer 1-4 (the latest of which was in 3D!), So, We Killed Our Parents, Warning!!! Pedophile Released and Sex Kids Party aka The More the Better. Which brings up a sad question: What if a person doesn't want their story told?

It's a common enough gimmick for horror movies to boast a "Based on Real Events" title card to draw in an audience, but even films like Open Water and The Strangers don't pinpoint whose story they're telling, whereas it will be quite obvious whose life Abducted Girl is about even if they change the family's name, which I assume they will. I honestly hadn't given it much thought before, but it makes me wonder how the families of all of Law & Order's "ripped from the headlines" episodes feel seeing their own personal tragedies done up for mass consumption.

I personally find this turn of events to be remarkably unsavory and it stuns me that, even with his history, Shane Ryan has the gall to exploit Jaycee Dugard's life this way; despite his claim that her's is just 'an interesting story'. I suppose the only saving grace here is that, as with all of his other films, most people will never see or even hear of Abducted Girl. I guess this is one of those rare times were having only ever made dreadful, unwatchable, hate-filled films has what can, unfortunately, be described as a silver lining.