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Captivity (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 71

Fresh: 5

Rotten:66

Average Rating: 2.7/10

Consensus: Lacking scares or psychological insight, Captivity is a distasteful entry in the 'torture porn' subgenre.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong violence, torture, pervasive terror, grisly images, language and some sexual material.

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:Jul 13, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $2,626,800

Synopsis: Top cover girl and fashion model, Jennifer Tree (ELISHA CUTHBERT) has it all - beauty, fame, money and power. Her face appears on covers of hundreds of magazines. At the top of her game, Jennifer... Top cover girl and fashion model, Jennifer Tree (ELISHA CUTHBERT) has it all - beauty, fame, money and power. Her face appears on covers of hundreds of magazines. At the top of her game, Jennifer is America's sweetheart. She is loved and adored and sought after. Everyone wants her. But someone out there has been watching and waiting. Someone wants her in the worst way. Out alone at a charity event in Soho, Jennifer is drugged and taken. Held captive in a cell, Jennifer is subjected to a series of terrifying, life-threatening tortures that could only be conceived by a twisted, sadistic mind. Inspired by the fact that over 850,000 are reported missing every year in the United States, many of whom are never seen again, CAPTIVITY follows the story of one woman who is abducted and tortured, held against her will in a place where days turn into weeks. Her will to escape and survive is challenged every moment by a maniac's desire to demoralize innocent victims and play out his sick game that has been played many times before Jennifer was taken. A combination of SAW and HOSTEL meets SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, CAPTIVITY is a psychological thriller/horror film that shows us the true terror of the crimes of abduction and confinement that are committed every day by serial killers and psychopaths at large. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Roland Joffe (THE KILLING FIELDS, THE MISSION), CAPTIVITY delves deeply into the minds of both captor and victim with a fresh and terrifying view of this epidemic horror. Being released this summer in theatres nation-wide, CAPTIVITY has been called one of the most controversial films of the year. It's a disturbing and raw, yet classy and thought provoking film which will leave you terrified, and looking over your shoulder as you leave the theatre wondering if you could be next. --© After Dark Films [More]

Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Laz Alonso, Daniel Gillies

Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Laz Alonso, Daniel Gillies, Michael Harney, Mark Damon

Director: Roland Joffé

Director: Roland Joffé
Screenwriter: Larry Cohen, Joseph Tura
Producer: Mark Damon
Composer: Marco Beltrami
Studio: After Dark Films

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Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
08/07/08
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

Without even calling into question the morals of a film which seems to exist only to depict the suffering of multiple women through hideous tortures, the film is still an empty mess, offering only a minor afterthought of an explanation to who is doing the

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
05/01/08
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Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
01/18/08
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York

Inexplicável, como o director de A Missão pode ser também o responsável por este filme vazio, estúpido e repleto de momentos acidentalmente hilários em função de sua imbecilidade.

Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | comment Comment
01/02/08
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

You can afford to avoid Captivity.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
09/22/07
Kim Newman
Jam! Movies

Even in the fetid swamp of the torture porn genre, it stands out as a particularly awful movie.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
09/12/07
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

Here we have little more than a grungy-looking TV movie of the week with some pointless gore tossed in.

Full Review Source: FEARnet | comment Comment
08/06/07
Scott Weinberg
FEARnet

Plunges the viewer almost directly into its nightmarish scenario.

Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | comment 1 Comment
07/28/07
Jeremy Heilman
MovieMartyr.com

What could have at least been a halfway decent house-of-horrors scary movie digresses into a puddle of fake blood in this stale little thriller that peaks when its resident baddie mixes a batch of eyeballs in an electric blender.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
07/26/07
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

The picture isn't scary, or even disgusting, really; it's oppressive -- dark and unpleasant in a depressingly unimaginative way.

Full Review Source: MTV | comment Comment
07/24/07
Kurt Loder
MTV

The worst, stupidest, and most pointless movie I've seen in a very long time.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
07/23/07
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

This isn't filmmaking it's shock treatment.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
07/21/07
Jim Hemphill
Reel.com

Captivity is the kind of film that gives torture porn a bad name. It's disturbing in the most unpleasant ways possible outside of Abu Ghraib or battlefield snuff films.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
07/20/07
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle

Screw the culture cops who freaked out over Captivity’s graphic poster and always cry 'torture porn' -- this is a gleefully nasty piece of red meat for horror hounds that delivers as promised.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
07/19/07
Luke Y. Thompson
L.A. Weekly

[Joffe] brings an artful video-grunge look, and not much else, to this Saw clone.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
07/18/07
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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Lands with a resounding splat somewhere between the realm of the truly repellent and the unintentionally funny.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
07/18/07
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

The irony is that Captivity is ABOUT the things it's hated for - a culture that views women as objects, fascination with death and mutilation, turning to the misery of others for our entertainment.

Full Review Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | comment Comment
07/17/07
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

The first audience member stood up when battery acid was about to be poured on a young girl’s face...

Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | comment Comment
07/17/07
Brent Simon
FilmStew.com

With the exception of ramming my head into a brick wall, then backing up and repeating the exercise, I can't think of anything I'd rather not be doing on a Friday afternoon.

Full Review Source: San Antonio Express-News | comment 1 Comment
07/16/07
Larry Ratliff
San Antonio Express-News

A poseur Grand Guignol, artistically indefensible and rank without purpose.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
07/16/07
Rob Humanick
Slant Magazine
 
 
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