Captivity

Captivity (2007)

  • 8% of critics liked it
    (76 reviews)

  • 31% of users liked it
    (328,359 ratings)

Vatel director Roland Joffé teams with screenwriters Larry Cohen and Joseph Tura to adapt an original story by Cohen concerning a fashion model (Elisha Cuthbert) and her chauffeur, who are kidnapped and held captive by a sadistic serial killer. Jennifer Tree (Cuthbert) is America's sweetheart; a… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Larry Cohen, Joseph Tura
Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Horror
In Theaters
Jul 13, 2007 Wide
After Dark Films

Critic Reviews

  • Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York

    This rank-and-file entry in the new brutality (directed by an obviously disinterested Roland Joffé) is just a snooze.

  • Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

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

  • Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader

    It's not scary because not one second is believable.

  • Tony Wong, Toronto Star

    The real horror here is how anyone, especially a two-time Oscar nominated director, could be this hard up for work.

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    Rarely have I found myself so uncomfortable viewing anything over such an extended period of time. There's nothing redeemable here. It's not tense or scary; it's just demented.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Nicki M


    Almost didn't bother watching this as it was a one star movie in the TV guide. Decided to take a chance on it anyhow. Actually didn't think it was that awful. Certainly I saw the slight twist coming a mile off, but aside from that, a grim and dark little thriller and Elisha… More

  • Lee ?


    A good but fairly routine bit of kidnap and torture horror. Nothing we haven't really seen before so there's no surprises here. Yeah there's the odd grisly moment and a somewhat guilty satisfaction seeing the arrogant, stuck-up model being made to squirm... all part of… More

  • ♥Robyn


    Elisha Cuthbert stars as Jennifer Tree a super model who has her face plastered all over the billboards for all to see.well one night while at a nightclub her drink is spiked,she wakes in a basement cell where she is physically and psychologically tortured by a hooded captor

  • Dean M


    An okay horror-thriller film, but it catches on to the 'torture porn'. There is some blood and some nasty gore but nothing like <i>Hostel</i> or even <i>Touristas</i>. It was nice to see Elisha Cuthbert doing something different, plays the lead, and… More

  • Lady D


    Way over the top in a ?Saw-like? type of way, but enjoyable all the same. Expensive contraptions and a pretty predictable outcome, but one that?s much worthier a watch to a lot of teen slasher movies, this one is based on the torture theme.

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