Held for Ransom

Year: 2000

Runtime: 88 mins

Language: English

Director: Lee Stanley

Thriller

Released direct‑to‑video in 2000, Held for Ransom follows five high‑school students who are abducted and taken to a remote Florida swamp, where their captors demand a ransom. The thriller, based on Lois Duncan’s novel, was both written and directed by Lee Stanley and carries the ominous tagline “They Pay or They Die.”

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