A tone of lurid idiocy permeates Trapped, a Z-grade woman-in-peril thriller starring scenery-chewing Kevin Bacon as a scruffy sadist who kidnaps the children of doctors and their attractive trophy wives. Queen Of The Damned's Stuart Townsend and Charlize Theron co-star as Bacon's latest victims, a wealthy doctor and his textile-designer wife. Bacon fancies himself an evil genius for pulling off four previous kidnappings, but he and accomplices Courtney Love and Pruitt Taylor Vance make for an incompetent criminal team: They're less criminal masterminds than the gang that couldn't think straight. Director Luis Mandoki allows Townsend and Theron to out-maneuver their tormentors at every turn: The film's central war of wits is less a game of cat-and-mouse than the intellectual equivalent of Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. It doesn't help that the film's emotional and moral canvas is painted entirely in black and white: The upper-class couple is unrelentingly moral, resourceful, and movie-star beautiful, while Bacon and Love are sex-crazed, rodent-like, and as gullible as high-school freshmen. The director of Message In A Bottle, Angel Eyes, and When A Man Loves A Woman, Mandoki makes what are generally considered women's films. Appropriately, Trapped feels like a bad made-for-Lifetime kidnapping drama given free reign to explore such unsavory topics as castration and sexual assault. The filmmakers resort to putting an asthmatic moppet in constant danger—not to mention their heavy-handed intimations of sexual assault—in an attempt to generate suspense, but Trapped boasts more unintentional laughs than shocks.