Why Hollywood Won't Cast Elisha Cuthbert Anymore

After enduring a few movies that tanked at the box office or displeased film critics (or both), Elisha Cuthbert's modest big-screen career hit its absolute low point with the 2007 horror flick Captivity. In this Saw-like bit of nihilistic drudgery, Cuthbert plays a model who is drugged, kidnapped, and relentlessly, savagely, psychologically tortured. Captivity's 9 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating indicates a near-universal critical loathing. Tony Delgado of Digital Spy called Captivity "truly awful" and "so ill-conceived and woeful that it effectively serves as a device of torture itself device — on the viewer." 

Not-so-shockingly, the movie also tanked at the box office, finishing in 12th place its opening weekend on its way to a disastrous $2.6 million domestic gross. Even worse, the film was nominated for three Razzies that year, including, yep, a worst actress nomination for Cuthbert. She lost to Lindsay Lohan for I Know Who Killed Me, but still, starring in one of the most poorly-received films in recent memory isn't a good look.

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