An uninspired horror flick that puts the nail in the coffin of the torture porn subgenre

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 5, 2024

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2018

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

| Aug 28, 2015

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

| Original Score: 0/4 | Oct 25, 2014

Joffé's interest clearly lies in society's obsession with celebrity rather than the nuances of the genre, but Cohen's precision script succeeds in keeping him on the terror track.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 10, 2013

There's something about Captivity that'll keep you watching; it could be your morbid curiosity, perhaps it's a sick bloodlust, or maybe, just maybe, it's because Elisha Cuthbert is clad in a low-cut dress at all times. My money's on all three.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2012

The only smart move made by the filmmakers was casting Pruitt Taylor Vince as the torturer. Too bad you only get to see his face for a coupla minutes. Man, that's one freaky-lookin' dude.

| Original Score: .5/5 | Jul 6, 2010

A film so ill-conceived and woeful that it effectively serves as a device of torture itself device -- on the viewer.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 6, 2010

[Joffe] makes us almost willing to overlook the unspeakable sadism of the first half -- but no, it's asking too much.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Without even calling into question the morals of a film which seems to exist only to depict the suffering of multiple women through hideous tortures, the film is still an empty mess, offering only a minor afterthought of an explanation to who is doing the

| May 1, 2008

Inexplicável, como o director de A Missão pode ser também o responsável por este filme vazio, estúpido e repleto de momentos acidentalmente hilários em função de sua imbecilidade.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 2, 2008

You can afford to avoid Captivity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 22, 2007

Even in the fetid swamp of the torture porn genre, it stands out as a particularly awful movie.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Sep 12, 2007

Plunges the viewer almost directly into its nightmarish scenario.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2007

What could have at least been a halfway decent house-of-horrors scary movie digresses into a puddle of fake blood in this stale little thriller that peaks when its resident baddie mixes a batch of eyeballs in an electric blender.

| Original Score: D | Jul 26, 2007

The picture isn't scary, or even disgusting, really; it's oppressive -- dark and unpleasant in a depressingly unimaginative way.

| Jul 24, 2007

The worst, stupidest, and most pointless movie I've seen in a very long time.

| Original Score: F | Jul 23, 2007

This isn't filmmaking it's shock treatment.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 21, 2007

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.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jul 20, 2007

Screw the culture cops who freaked out over Captivity's graphic poster and always cry 'torture porn' -- this is a gleefully nasty piece of red meat for horror hounds that delivers as promised.

Full Review | Jul 19, 2007