Captivity

R

Released Jul 13, 2007

1h 25m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

List

9%

77 Reviews

Tomatometer

23%

250,000+ Ratings

Audience Score

Jennifer, a model, is on top of the world. Her highly sought-after image adorns magazine covers and billboards. When she is alone at a charity event, she is abducted and put into a cell with another prisoner. Their captor subjects the two to torture, and they must find a way out of the chamber of horrors before he kills them.

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Critics Consensus

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

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Audience Member

Marvelous melodramatic movie!! I don’t understand the bad reviews. Great acting, no lulls or slow parts where I lost interest. A sensational psychological thriller with a couple of unexpected twists towards the end. Great movie!! 😊

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/03/24

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Jeffrey P

Gorefest of blood and torture, with no clear motives and a plot that takes too long to materialize. When the motives are finally revealed, they are sick and twisted but severely lacking. Without no plot or clear motives the ending is just a ‘whatever.' At least its not melodramatic with some sort of greater meaning and social agenda, that would be sick.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/13/23

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Steve D

Cuthbert had better material in 24 season 2...

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Audience Member

Very underrated horror movie with good acting.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Audience Member

Fans of gore and the films hostel and saw will enjoy

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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rafael f

Elisha Cuthbert is a great actress and scream queen!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Roland Joffé

Director

Elisha Cuthbert

Jennifer

Pruitt Taylor Vince

Ben

Laz Alonso

DiSantos

Michael Harney

Bettiger

Rebekah Ryan

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

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.

Rated: 0/5

Jul 20, 2007

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

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

Rated: C-

Jul 18, 2007

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Rob Humanick

Slant Magazine

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

Rated: .5/4

Jul 16, 2007

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Kaleem Aftab

The List

The current plight of Paris Hilton makes you suspect that the heiress' jail sentence is an elaborate marketing ploy for Captivity. If only the once great director Roland Joffe and writer Larry Cohen behind Captivity could show such imagination.

Rated: 2/5

Nov 3, 2018

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Scott Weinberg

TheHorrorShow

Little more than a grungy-looking TV movie of the week with some pointless gore tossed in.

Aug 28, 2015

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David Keyes

Cinemaphile.org

What a loathsome, reckless and sickening glimpse into madness this is.

Rated: 0/4

Oct 25, 2014

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Synopsis

Jennifer, a model, is on top of the world. Her highly sought-after image adorns magazine covers and billboards. When she is alone at a charity event, she is abducted and put into a cell with another prisoner. Their captor subjects the two to torture, and they must find a way out of the chamber of horrors before he kills them.

Director: Roland Joffé
Producer: Valery Chumak, Courtney Solomon
Screenwriter: Larry Cohen, Joseph Tura
Distributor: After Dark Films, Lionsgate Films
Production Co: Ramco Films, Captivity Productions, Foresight Unlimited
Rating: R (Language|Grisly Images|Torture|Pervasive Terror|Some Sexual Material|Strong Violence)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 13, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 16, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $2.6M
Runtime: 1h 25m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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