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FBI Arrests Suspect in "Gone Girl" Kidnapping Cops Thought Was a Hoax

Jay Hathaway · 07/13/15 05:10PM

Back in March, a 29-year-old Vallejo, Calif., woman disappeared from her home, and her boyfriend was left tied up and drugged with a note demanding a ransom for her return. Suspicion initially fell on the boyfriend, but when the victim returned two days later and refused to cooperate with investigators, authorities thought she may have staged the whole thing, a la Gone Girl. Which brings us up to this week, when a real suspect has been charged with the “hoax” kidnapping.

Woman—I Mean "Kidnappers"—Pissed Cops Accused Her of Gone Girl Scheme

Aleksander Chan · 03/31/15 12:02PM

Vallejo, Ca., police had ruled the kidnapping and ransoming of 29-year-old Denise Huskins last week an "orchestrated event" by the woman and her boyfriend in a supposed Gone Girl-style fakeout. But now people claiming to be her captors have emailed detailed messages to California news outlets demanding credit for the supposed crime and that Huskins' good name be cleared.

The Weirdest Shit in Movies This Year

Rich Juzwiak · 12/19/14 10:05AM

If a movie is not going to show us something new, it should at least show us something different. Below are some examples, for better and certainly for worse, of some weird shit I noticed in some of my favorite and least favorite movies of 2014. (Warning: There are, I guess, spoilers below. Also, in addition to that cartoon boob is one one human boob.) Please feel free to share some of your favorite weird moments in the comments below.

Here's Ben Affleck's Dick

Rich Juzwiak · 12/11/14 05:06PM

A high-quality rip of Gone Girl has found its way to the internet. Do you know what that means? Ben Affleck's dick has leaked.

Why Gone Girl Is Great

Leah Finnegan · 10/17/14 02:25PM

I've been trying to dislike Gone Girl ever since Mary Gaitskill wrote her hatchet job of a review in Bookforum last September. Gaitskill, whose female-focused fiction (of which I am a fan) is often lurid and lightless, called the book "frightening." "I felt I was reading something truly sick and dark—and in case you don't know, I'm supposedly sick and dark," she wrote.

Here Is The Trailer for David Fincher's Adaptation of Gone Girl

Dayna Evans · 04/14/14 06:08PM

Soundtracked by a version of Elvis Costello's "She", the first official trailer for Gone Girl released on Entertainment Tonight this evening. Starring chisel-face Ben Affleck and directed by David Fincher, the movie adaptation of Gone Girl releases on October 3 of this year. Thoughts?