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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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The controversy may have piqued the curiosity of horror fans but the film is undeserving of any further attention, managing to be both nastily unpleasant and laughably ludicrous.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
07/13/07
Jason Anderson
Jason Anderson
Globe and Mail
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A spirit-sapping exercise in female degradation fantasy.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
07/13/07
Robert Abele
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
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Captivity has the compulsory quality of a straight-to-DVD movie -- and considering the fast-fading torture-porn movement, that's no doubt the destiny of similar offerings to follow.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
07/13/07
Scott Tobias
Scott Tobias
AV Club

Slick, sick sleaze.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
07/13/07
Rocco Landesman
Rocco Landesman
New York Post

What made the esteemed director of The Killing Fields and The Mission stoop to this is anybody's guess.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
07/13/07
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter

Destined to be better remembered for its grisly billboard imagery than for its relatively tame torture-porn tropes.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
07/13/07
Joe Leydon
Joe Leydon
Variety
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The film itself is sordid, unpleasant viewing, as promised, yet more tedious than terrifying.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
07/13/07
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

If critics offended by the rise of the horror-movie sub-genre they've derisively tagged 'torture porn' ever needed a prime suspect to haul before any moral court, the first 20 minutes of this brutal kidnapping thriller from Roland Joffe would work.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
07/13/07
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Only about twelve people you know are likely to ever see the film. Eleven will hate it. Avoid hanging out with the twelfth.

Full Review Source: UGO | comment Comment
07/13/07
Brian Tallerico
Brian Tallerico
UGO

. . .sitting through it is a form of torture that far outstrips anything seen on the screen.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
07/13/07
Peter Sobczynski
Peter Sobczynski
eFilmCritic.com

One has to worry about a world where there is a constant appetite for films like this one.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
07/13/07
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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...so ineptly conceived and staged it could be the first torture-porn comedy

Full Review Source: Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) | comment Comment
07/13/07
Josh Larsen
Josh Larsen
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)

I never thought I'd say this, but this movie gives torture porn a bad name.

Full Review Source: Film School Rejects | comment Comment
07/13/07
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
Film School Rejects

If this is Cuthbert's idea of being, as she claims, choosy about the horror offers she accepts, heaven help us from the ones she's turned down.

Full Review Source: Metromix.com | comment Comment
07/13/07
Matt Pais
Matt Pais
Metromix.com

a well-trotted mess

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
07/13/07
Chris Cabin
Chris Cabin
Filmcritic.com

A badly written, poorly directed and appallingly acted mess.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment 1 Comment
06/30/07
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Polished and atmospheric, but utterly vacuous.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
06/28/07
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Chillingly enjoyable.

Full Review Source: Sunday Mirror [UK] | comment 3 Comments
06/22/07
Mark Adams
Mark Adams
Sunday Mirror [UK]

Larry Cohen, an experienced horror hand, wrote this, and Joffé does his best to keep the tension boiling up to a ridiculous climax. Even so, everybody involved should be ashamed of this nasty farrago.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
06/22/07
Derek Malcolm
Derek Malcolm
This is London

Veteran writer Larry Cohen has shown a knack for claustrophobic thrillers (Phone Booth), but this tawdry effort is almost entirely lacking in stealth and suspense.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
06/22/07
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Independent
 
 
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