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  • Captivity
  • Opened July 13, 2007 | Runtime:1 hr. 38 min.
  • R
    strong violence, torture, pervasive terror, grisly images, language and some sexual material
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says not for kids. Read More
  • A serial killer torments a fashion model (Elisha Cuthbert) and a chauffeur while holding them captive in a small room. While the madman methodically terrorizes them, the victims draw strength from each other and fall in love.
  • Cast: Elisha Cuthbert, Daniel Gillies, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Michael Harney, Laz Alonso
  • Director: Roland Joffé
  • Genres: Horror, Suspense/Thriller

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  • Pruitt Taylor Vince in "Captivity."
  • Daniel Gillies in "Captivity."
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Captivity Recent Fan Reviews

  • Must Go!

    Totally Delivers!

    by Squid33

    I have to start by saying that I don't believe "critics" should be allowed to review horror genre films. It's not high art. It's gore, and scare, and squirming in your seat. These critics probably haven't eaten a hot dog in a while either-but they're still all-American. With that said, we saw Captivity last night and it TOTALLY delivered on all counts. Plenty of scare, plenty of gore, and definitely plenty of squirming. This is what we go to this kind of film to see. Period. It's a fun ride, cheesy in some respects, yes, but in the best way. And for the idiots who are "offended" by the film because it "promotes misogyny"-get over yourselves. I'm a woman - strong, independent, certainly not a victim, and I can separate fantasy from reality. Nobody who sees this movie (except the sociopaths who are already too far gone to give a crap about anyway) is going to get any new ideas about how to harm women. Spend your energy trying to change things in the Middle East...

  • Must Go!

    Unpleasantly Surprised, in a good way

    by vawagg

    I didn?t really want to see this movie. I?m not much into the genre and frankly I was kind of angered by the billboards that got taken down. But there was not much else to go see if you?re not a Harry Potter fan. I was pleasantly, rather, unpleasantly surprised.

    This is good thriller. I loved Elisha Cuthbert. I thought she did a great job. I was plenty scared and truly worried for her. There is some pretty hot stuff between her and Daniel Gilles. Gilles has a chance to be another Hollywood heartthrob. I believed in her character and cared about what happened to her.

    It?s not at all what I expected from this movie. Though there are pretty gratuitous torture scenes most of the movie was internal and really tackled fear unlike I?ve seen in a movie before. It not anything like Hostel or Saw both of which I didn?t care for.

    I?d recommend this for anyone who wants a good thrill and doesn?t mind blood and gore.

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    Captivity, Not Really Torture Porn

    by zekelyndon

    It would have been much more honest of the production company, After Dark Films, to say it was a thriller with slight torture porn inklings (very slight). Maybe, the folks at After Dark didn?t actually see the movie. What I saw was psychological in nature and dealt much more with assaults on the mind of those captive than it did with actual assaults on the bodies of those captive. Yes, there is some blood and some nasty gore but nothing like Saw or Hostel or even Touristas.
    It?s not a great movie but adequate. A solid B-movie endeavor. Fun, kind of stupid at times, pretty good acting by the luscious Elisha Cuthbert and the director, Roland Joffe imbued the entire film with a look that worked very well to be creepy and ominous. It moves fairly quickly, lags a bit in the middle and ends with a slightly predictable twist but really you don?t care at that point because, surprise, you?ve been entertained. Well, at least I was even though my hunger for gore was only slightly abated.

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Captivity Critic Reviews

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  • 70
    Village Voice |

    Roland Joff creates a visually interesting and aurally unsettling vibe, and the...

  • 50
    Variety | Joe Leydon

    Destined to be better remembered for its grisly billboard imagery than for its...

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Roland Joff brings an artful video-grunge look, and not much else, to this...

  • 30
    The New York Times | Jeannette Catsoulis

    The movie has been thoroughly eclipsed by "Captivity" the marketing.

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