Captivity (Unrated Widescreen Edition) | 
| Actor: Elisha Cuthbert
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 12944
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 85 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 22179
UPC: 031398221791
EAN: 0031398221791
ASIN: B000V4UH0I
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: October 30, 2007
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Product Description
Top cover girl and fashion model, Jennifer Tree 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.
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 Expectedly terrible. June 30, 2009
Kate Stokes (Atlanta, GA)
I expected this movie to be terrible, and it met my expectations. I imagine this is how the idea was pitched to the producer: "It's 'Saw' meets 'Hostel' with a little bit of 'Dexter' thrown in." The movie manages to borrow heavily--and poorly--from the 'Saw' and 'Hostel' franchises and blatantly steals--again poorly--from 'Dexter.'
This movie is so terrible that I honestly believe in the years/decades to come it will be seen as the film that killed the current horror trend. The horror genre is one that comes in and out of fashion with the general movie-going public and I believe this film might just be responsible for ending the most recent movement just as 'Saw' can be said to have sparked it. It's a true trend-killer; the film is so bad that it literally casts a bad light on the entire genre--that bad. It will be a few years before the next horror trend is kicked off and my guess is that the genre will go in a different direction from the extreme violence/gore/torture trajectory typified in films such as 'Saw,' 'Wolf Creek' and 'Hostel' which dominated the 2004-2007 horror landscape.
Don't get me wrong: I am not knocking the aforementioned trend. I am merely arguing that this film is so terrible that it destroyed the trend by showing everyone just how bad the trend could be if taken to its logical extreme. 'Touristas' and 'Hostel 2' also did their part in that respect, too; this dreck just happened to be the straw the broke the camel's back.
 It's no 'Saw' or 'Hostel', but it tries to be June 25, 2009
Richard Ross
What is 'Killing Fields' director Roland Joffe doing throwing his hat in the torture porn ring? In the 'making of' included on the DVD, he sounds so pleased with himself that he's made a serious film that attempts to explore the dynamic of the captor and captive. Any serious analysis goes out the window when we're treated to scenes of heroine Jennifer Tree (Elisha Cuthbert), being fed a blood shake with a detached retina, a severed ear, and other pieces of gristle, or when she's showered with the exploding entrails of her obnoxious dog. Joffe lets up on the gore for a few minutes and subjects Jennifer to psychological torture by having her being buried alive in a sand box or thinking her skin is being melted off thanks to an acid shower. Just call the film what it is : a bad 'Saw' knockoff. We never get to know Jennifer enough to truly care about her. True, no one deserves this kind of punishment but we can't fully empathize with her since the only glimpses we get of her are courtesy of some dumb interviews that she's given where she comes off as a dumb blonde. The subplot about the other captive Gary (Daniel Gillies), is the only thing that works in the movie. I'm not talking about the bogus romance. If you just had your teeth extracted with a pliers would your immediate concern be getting laid? No, the twist as to who Gary really is is what makes the last half hour the most exciting part of the movie. My personal movie rule is that if a film starts off bad and you're ready to write it off but then things pick up in the last half hour and it ends on an exciting note, than it's not a complete failure. That's how I would rank 'Captivity'.
I don't know if it's the best. Let's say good June 9, 2009
Sid the Elf (North Pole)
Out of the past few years of the "8 Films to Die For Series" this one actually was placed into a mainstream audience. Most of the films have been shown in select theaters in certain cities but Captivity was everywhere. It stars hockey player groupie Elisha Cuthbert best known for her roles in Old School and The Girl Next Door. Being that she's easy on the eyes and it's her first horror film Sid said oh man I gotta get in on that.
It starts off at a charity event where well know model Jennifer Tree (Elisha Cuthbert) winds up being drugged. When she wakes up she's in a dark basement with different rooms set. She see's a man in a room next to her and they work together in attempting an escape. However it's tough due to the fact that they're under constant surveillance by the sadistic killer. As the try to find a way out they're put trough many different mind games with torture involved. As the film goes on you will see that not everything is as it seems in this situation.
The film does borrow ideas from Saw & Hostel but most in the genre do. How many different ways can you torture people anyway? Most of the reviews for the film are poor to average at best, but we thought it was pretty decent. It's not anything groundbreaking or even close to original but it was still a fun watch. We PROBABLY would have enjoyed this one back in the glory days.
 WAS I WATCHING THE SAME MOVIE? May 13, 2009
C. Nevin (PLGHHT!)
Please check this out for yourself by renting it. I can't believe how many bad reviews this got. What do people want from horror these days?
Seriously, this film will freak you out. If you even liked Hostel or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, do yourself a favor and check this out.
It's not the best of it's genre but it is very good to me, and I'm pretty picky about my horror flicks.
Pretty Vile...Not in a Good Way. May 7, 2009
The JuRK (Our Vast, Cultural Desert)
I'm kind of at a loss watching a movie like this.
Having grown up in the 1970s and 1980s, near the twilight of the cheap drive-in grindhouse era and the beginning of the direct-to-VHS B-movie in a crippling climate of political correctness, I'm a little confused by the "torture porn" movies I see these days. Back in the day, we used to watch terrible horror movies because you were going to get a couple of jolts, a couple of chuckles, and some quality nudity. I didn't make the rules, that's just what bad cheap horror movies supplied.
So I'm a little dismayed by the modern "horror" movie. The violence is grotesquely and lovingly portrayed. Scenes are awash in blood and stomach-churning special effects. Humor? I'd hate to know anyone who found any of these torture porn movies amusing. And the quality nudity? Just doesn't happen. These movies are just as incredibly chaste as they are sickeningly violent. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me...but I'm not sure which is worse: the titillation aspect with the torture or just the clinical slaughtering of both genders.
Any way you want to see it, a movie like CAPTIVITY is just another tedious exercise in excessive punishment and torture. If you're getting this movie because of Elisha Cuthbert...you'd see far more of her in a Maxim magazine than here. If you want to see her play a character that's interesting and worth caring about...you'd see more of her in a Maxim magazine.
A vile and unnecessary movie. It feels like cobbled scenes from other lame torture porn movies. Nothing original, nothing different. I don't know why I bother with the modern horror film.
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