Abducted (1986)
4/10
Woah
15 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I love saying the name of the director of this movie. Boon Collins.

He also directed Spirit of the Eagle, Abducted II: The Reunion, The Protector and Sleepover Nightmare. But he also wrote the story and screenplay of Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker, so wow, you know? He wrote this, too, along with Lindsey Bourne, who also wrote the sequel.

Renee (Roberta Weiss) is a city girl trying to jog in the Canadian Rockies who is being chased by a crazed mountain man named Vern (Lawrence King-Phillips) who finally takes her to his cabin in the middle of nowhere. But Vern didn't count on the fact that his father Joe (Dan Haggerty) would help Renee escape.

Based on a true story, well, Joe eventually gets hurt, Renee loses her pants and Vern goes shithouse. Actually, I buried the lead because it's totally based on a true story, the one about Kari Swenson, a pretty major athlete who was a bronze medal winner as a member of the 1984 U. S. relay team competing in the first women's Biathlon World Championships in Chamonix, France.

Following the 1984 biathlon season, Swenson took a job at a Big Sky, Montana ranch where she could also Also our country doesn't do enough for our Olympic athletes. That said, one day as she was training, she was abducted by Don Nichols who wanted to make her his son Dan's wife. As twenty people searched for her, Don warned that he would shoot anyone who tried to take her. When they got close, Swenson yelled to warn the searchers away. Don Nichols ordered his son to shut her up and shoot her. He did and she survived - thanks to her breathing abilities as a runner - when the bullet collapsed her lung.

Swenson hated how the men were presented in the media as mythical mountain men, as she only saw them as criminals. There was another movie, The Abduction of Kari Swenson, made for NBC with Tracy Pollan in the lead and Swenson as a technical advisor.

She returned to training, earning a spot on the United States Biathlon team again and competed in the 1986 biathlon competition in Oslo, Norway. She finished fourth, retired and became a veterinarian.

I really have to see the sequel because it gets supernatural and has Jan-Michael Vincent and Debbie Rochon in it.
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