Otis (film)
Encyclopedia
Otis is a 2008
direct-to-DVD horror
-comedy
directed by Tony Krantz. It is the fourth Raw Feed
horror film from Warner Home Video
.
), goes missing. When her desperate parents, Will and Kate (Daniel Stern
and Illeana Douglas
), are contacted by her kidnapper, an insufferable FBI Special Agent (Jere Burns
) takes charge of the case. But, from deep within the psychopathic subterranean world created by Otis (Bostin Christopher
), Riley turns the tables on her tormentor, manages to escape and to contact her parents. Fed up with the inability of the FBI to find their girl, Will, Kate, and Riley's brother, Reed (Jared Kusnitz) decide to take matters – and justice – into their own hands.
) when she receives a phone call inviting her to the "prom." Otis describes to her the tuxedo he has for the occasion and asks her if it makes her "wet." She refuses to play along into his demented game of re-living his High school prom date and he punishes her by turning up the heat lamps suspended over her bed to try and make her comply. She hangs up, then grabs a bottle of lotion and smears it onto the camera lenses he uses to keep surveillance on her from an upstairs room and pretends to use the chains that keep her bound to the room to hang herself. Otis rushes downstairs to stop her, as he approaches the door she uses the loose end of the chain that she broke away from the floor and swings it around, smashing him in the face as he enters. A struggle ensues, and her life ends when she falls back into the bathtub and the lamp falls in, electrocuting her.
After watching her fry to death, Otis yells "No! No! No! Stupid!" then remarks on how frustrated he is that he wasted six weeks holding her captive before setting to work cutting her limbs off with a hacksaw
.
It is revealed shortly thereafter that Otis has a job as a pizza delivery
man; it is when he delivers to the Lawson household that he sets eyes on Riley (Ashley Johnson
) for the first time and immediately becomes infatuated
with her, even going as far as to hold the dollar bill she gave him as a tip up to his nose and inhale deeply.
The next morning, while she leaves the house to wait for the bus to school he abducts
her in broad daylight, forcing a bag over her head to stifle her screams and throwing her into the back of his hatchback before taking off and driving past right in front of her parents as they leave for work.
The movie progresses as more is revealed about Otis' mentality and his psychotic fantasy to abduct beautiful teenage girls to hold hostage to re-enact his High school prom. He insists on calling Riley "Kim," the girl that ditched him on prom night and ultimately married his brother. Riley wakes up in Otis's basement dressed in an old cheerleader uniform that previous victims wore and is forced to act out one of his many scenarios, much to her horror & humiliation. She quickly learns that by resisting him and denying him of re-living the experience causes him to hurt her; however by playing along with his recreated scenarios she eventually finds the chance to escape after the scenario of prom night. When Otis' brother Elmo (Kevin Pollack) comes over for his customary surprise visits to criticize Otis' house and scream at him (usually accompanied with a slap across the face,) Otis must put Riley back in her room but forgets to secure her chains to the floor. She uses the wire from inside her bra to short-circuit the electric fence that seals off the air duct, then crawls through it to the outside and to a local convenience store to call her mother Kate (Illeana Douglas
) and tell her everything about her captor and where to find her.
It is then that Kate makes her daughter promise to repeat to NO ONE the address of her captor, or his name. She then tells her husband Will (Daniel Stern
) and son Reed (Jared Kusnitz) and they plot to take their own revenge and not include dimwit and perverted FBI detective Agent Hotchkiss (Jere Burns
) who had been bungling the case all along out of the picture.
After visiting Riley at the hospital, the trio break into the house at the address Riley told them and wait for Otis to come home, armed with a shovel, a baseball bat and a large kitchen knife. But what Riley didn't tell them was Otis' physical description, so when his brother Elmo popped in for his regular home intrusions to deliver groceries and insults he was greeted by the three attackers in a hilarious effort to attack and incapacitate him.
The scene cuts back in with Elmo unconscious and bound to a chair while the three Lawsons hover around him, thinking of different ways to torture and mutilate him. Father Will runs a wire from inside his rectum to an electrical socket, electrocuting him within inches of his life. Mother Kate holds a mason jar containing chemicals that jolted him awake when it was held to his face and breathed in. Brother Reed cracks him across the face with a 5-iron
then shoves a smoking hot curling iron down his throat while Kate prepares to chop off his fingers and toes to put in a blender and then force him to drink.
Little do they know that the same cameras that Otis used to keep surveillance on his victims are still active, although they are not pointed at where Elmo is being tortured they still record all the of the audio occurring. So when Riley finally cracks to Agent Hotchkiss' constant questions of what she knows of her abductor, he contacts the father's cell phone and gives them Otis' description.
Realizing their captive (now dead) was NOT the 6'3", 350 lb. man described to them, they checked his wallet for an I.D. to realize what Elmo had tried to tell them all along - they had the wrong Broth. They then scramble to clean up the mess they made and cut up his body to put into separate garbage bags, which they then load up into Will's pickup truck and ditch in a local dumpster.
Otis comes home to find his house a mess, and that Riley's gone. He then reviews his cameras to hear the family torturing and killing his brother and loses it. Meanwhile Agent Hotchkiss greets the family at the hospital where they are about to bring Riley home from after being released and asks them to meet with him in the hospital's chapel. It is here that he reveals to them the cameras they confiscated from the house (the movie never shows it, but it is presumed the descent of FBI agents was delayed until long after Otis discovered what had happened and left) and tells the family he will not let it get out, that he was glad they got their revenge (thinking they killed Otis and not Elmo) and leaves them to their business. It is when they all return home that Riley tells her family that the man that abducted her was the same man that delivers the pizza, while her mother and father debate on whether to hunt him down again or to move and not let Otis seek his revenge, Reed grabs a shotgun and calls the pizza place to order for a delivery. When the family hears a knock at the door, he asks who it is. When he hears the response of "pizza delivery" he fires four rounds through the door, then opens it to reveal a dead body with the face obliterated by the shotgun blasts lying on the front walkway. Kate asks, "Is it him?"
2008 in film
This is a list of all major films made in 2008.-Highest-grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2008...
direct-to-DVD horror
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
-comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
directed by Tony Krantz. It is the fourth Raw Feed
Raw Feed
Raw Feed is the label of Warner Premiere the direct-to-DVD division of Warner Home Video, that focuses on releasing films of the horror genre, many of them unrated.- History :...
horror film from Warner Home Video
Warner Home Video
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.
Plot synopsis
In the midst of a serial abductor/killer's rampage, a beautiful young teen, Riley Lawson (Ashley JohnsonAshley Johnson
Ashley Suzanne Johnson is an American actress, best known for her two-season role as Chrissy Seaver in the TV show Growing Pains, and for her voice work in television series such as Teen Titans and Ben 10 Alien Force....
), goes missing. When her desperate parents, Will and Kate (Daniel Stern
Daniel Stern (actor)
Daniel Jacob Stern is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles in the Hollywood films C.H.U.D., Diner, City Slickers and the first two Home Alone films, and as the narrator for the television series The Wonder Years.-Early life:Stern was born in Bethesda, Maryland to a...
and Illeana Douglas
Illeana Douglas
Illeana Douglas is an American actress, director, screenwriter, and producer.-Background:Douglas is a granddaughter of the actor Melvyn Douglas and his first wife, artist Rosalind Hightower, and has said that her grandfather's performance in Being There, in particular, was influential on her own...
), are contacted by her kidnapper, an insufferable FBI Special Agent (Jere Burns
Jere Burns
Jerald Eugene "Jere" Burns II is an American actor who has appeared in theatre productions and on television and is best known for his role as ladies' man Kirk Morris on the television series, Dear John.-Early life:...
) takes charge of the case. But, from deep within the psychopathic subterranean world created by Otis (Bostin Christopher
Bostin Christopher
Bostin Christopher is an American actor most known for his role as Otis Broth in the 2008 film Otis. He was cast in the title role of Billy in the 2009 Short Film 'Billy's in Love' Written & Directed by John Larkin. He has also been featured in television shows such as Law & Order and Wonderland....
), Riley turns the tables on her tormentor, manages to escape and to contact her parents. Fed up with the inability of the FBI to find their girl, Will, Kate, and Riley's brother, Reed (Jared Kusnitz) decide to take matters – and justice – into their own hands.
Plot summary
The movie begins with a young teen being held captive in the basement of serial kidnapper/killer Otis Broth (Bostin ChristopherBostin Christopher
Bostin Christopher is an American actor most known for his role as Otis Broth in the 2008 film Otis. He was cast in the title role of Billy in the 2009 Short Film 'Billy's in Love' Written & Directed by John Larkin. He has also been featured in television shows such as Law & Order and Wonderland....
) when she receives a phone call inviting her to the "prom." Otis describes to her the tuxedo he has for the occasion and asks her if it makes her "wet." She refuses to play along into his demented game of re-living his High school prom date and he punishes her by turning up the heat lamps suspended over her bed to try and make her comply. She hangs up, then grabs a bottle of lotion and smears it onto the camera lenses he uses to keep surveillance on her from an upstairs room and pretends to use the chains that keep her bound to the room to hang herself. Otis rushes downstairs to stop her, as he approaches the door she uses the loose end of the chain that she broke away from the floor and swings it around, smashing him in the face as he enters. A struggle ensues, and her life ends when she falls back into the bathtub and the lamp falls in, electrocuting her.
After watching her fry to death, Otis yells "No! No! No! Stupid!" then remarks on how frustrated he is that he wasted six weeks holding her captive before setting to work cutting her limbs off with a hacksaw
Hacksaw
A hacksaw is a fine-tooth saw with a blade under tension in a frame, used for cutting materials such as metal or plastics. Hand-held hacksaws consist of a metal arch with a handle, usually a pistol grip, with pins for attaching a narrow disposable blade. A screw or other mechanism is used to put...
.
It is revealed shortly thereafter that Otis has a job as a pizza delivery
Pizza delivery
Pizza delivery is a service in which a pizzeria delivers a pizza to a customer. Delivery is normally made with an automobile, motor scooter, or bicycle.- Ordering :...
man; it is when he delivers to the Lawson household that he sets eyes on Riley (Ashley Johnson
Ashley Johnson
Ashley Suzanne Johnson is an American actress, best known for her two-season role as Chrissy Seaver in the TV show Growing Pains, and for her voice work in television series such as Teen Titans and Ben 10 Alien Force....
) for the first time and immediately becomes infatuated
Limerence
Limerence is a term coined c. 1977 by the psychologist Dorothy Tennov to describe an involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a romantic attraction to another person combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated...
with her, even going as far as to hold the dollar bill she gave him as a tip up to his nose and inhale deeply.
The next morning, while she leaves the house to wait for the bus to school he abducts
Kidnapping
In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away or transportation of a person against that person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment, a confinement without legal authority...
her in broad daylight, forcing a bag over her head to stifle her screams and throwing her into the back of his hatchback before taking off and driving past right in front of her parents as they leave for work.
The movie progresses as more is revealed about Otis' mentality and his psychotic fantasy to abduct beautiful teenage girls to hold hostage to re-enact his High school prom. He insists on calling Riley "Kim," the girl that ditched him on prom night and ultimately married his brother. Riley wakes up in Otis's basement dressed in an old cheerleader uniform that previous victims wore and is forced to act out one of his many scenarios, much to her horror & humiliation. She quickly learns that by resisting him and denying him of re-living the experience causes him to hurt her; however by playing along with his recreated scenarios she eventually finds the chance to escape after the scenario of prom night. When Otis' brother Elmo (Kevin Pollack) comes over for his customary surprise visits to criticize Otis' house and scream at him (usually accompanied with a slap across the face,) Otis must put Riley back in her room but forgets to secure her chains to the floor. She uses the wire from inside her bra to short-circuit the electric fence that seals off the air duct, then crawls through it to the outside and to a local convenience store to call her mother Kate (Illeana Douglas
Illeana Douglas
Illeana Douglas is an American actress, director, screenwriter, and producer.-Background:Douglas is a granddaughter of the actor Melvyn Douglas and his first wife, artist Rosalind Hightower, and has said that her grandfather's performance in Being There, in particular, was influential on her own...
) and tell her everything about her captor and where to find her.
It is then that Kate makes her daughter promise to repeat to NO ONE the address of her captor, or his name. She then tells her husband Will (Daniel Stern
Daniel Stern (actor)
Daniel Jacob Stern is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles in the Hollywood films C.H.U.D., Diner, City Slickers and the first two Home Alone films, and as the narrator for the television series The Wonder Years.-Early life:Stern was born in Bethesda, Maryland to a...
) and son Reed (Jared Kusnitz) and they plot to take their own revenge and not include dimwit and perverted FBI detective Agent Hotchkiss (Jere Burns
Jere Burns
Jerald Eugene "Jere" Burns II is an American actor who has appeared in theatre productions and on television and is best known for his role as ladies' man Kirk Morris on the television series, Dear John.-Early life:...
) who had been bungling the case all along out of the picture.
After visiting Riley at the hospital, the trio break into the house at the address Riley told them and wait for Otis to come home, armed with a shovel, a baseball bat and a large kitchen knife. But what Riley didn't tell them was Otis' physical description, so when his brother Elmo popped in for his regular home intrusions to deliver groceries and insults he was greeted by the three attackers in a hilarious effort to attack and incapacitate him.
The scene cuts back in with Elmo unconscious and bound to a chair while the three Lawsons hover around him, thinking of different ways to torture and mutilate him. Father Will runs a wire from inside his rectum to an electrical socket, electrocuting him within inches of his life. Mother Kate holds a mason jar containing chemicals that jolted him awake when it was held to his face and breathed in. Brother Reed cracks him across the face with a 5-iron
Iron (golf)
An iron is a type of club used in the sport of golf to propel the ball towards the hole. They are so-called because historically the clubhead was generally made from iron. Whilst the vast majority of modern irons are still made from iron, it is almost always its stronger and more durable alloy,...
then shoves a smoking hot curling iron down his throat while Kate prepares to chop off his fingers and toes to put in a blender and then force him to drink.
Little do they know that the same cameras that Otis used to keep surveillance on his victims are still active, although they are not pointed at where Elmo is being tortured they still record all the of the audio occurring. So when Riley finally cracks to Agent Hotchkiss' constant questions of what she knows of her abductor, he contacts the father's cell phone and gives them Otis' description.
Realizing their captive (now dead) was NOT the 6'3", 350 lb. man described to them, they checked his wallet for an I.D. to realize what Elmo had tried to tell them all along - they had the wrong Broth. They then scramble to clean up the mess they made and cut up his body to put into separate garbage bags, which they then load up into Will's pickup truck and ditch in a local dumpster.
Otis comes home to find his house a mess, and that Riley's gone. He then reviews his cameras to hear the family torturing and killing his brother and loses it. Meanwhile Agent Hotchkiss greets the family at the hospital where they are about to bring Riley home from after being released and asks them to meet with him in the hospital's chapel. It is here that he reveals to them the cameras they confiscated from the house (the movie never shows it, but it is presumed the descent of FBI agents was delayed until long after Otis discovered what had happened and left) and tells the family he will not let it get out, that he was glad they got their revenge (thinking they killed Otis and not Elmo) and leaves them to their business. It is when they all return home that Riley tells her family that the man that abducted her was the same man that delivers the pizza, while her mother and father debate on whether to hunt him down again or to move and not let Otis seek his revenge, Reed grabs a shotgun and calls the pizza place to order for a delivery. When the family hears a knock at the door, he asks who it is. When he hears the response of "pizza delivery" he fires four rounds through the door, then opens it to reveal a dead body with the face obliterated by the shotgun blasts lying on the front walkway. Kate asks, "Is it him?"