When You Think the Worst Has Happened...
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Unrated, English, Subtitled, Spanish, Dolby Digital (5.1)
Top cover girl and fashion model Jennifer Tree (Elisha Cuthbert) has it all - beauty, fame, money and power. Everyone wants her...but some more than others. Alone after a charity event, she is drugged and taken.Directed by acclaimed director Roland Joffe, Captivity delves deep into the minds of both captor and victim. Called one of the most controversial films of the year, Captivity will leave you terrified and looking over your shoulder wondering if you could be next!
"...Joffe creates a visually interesting and aurally unsettling vibe, and the story from B-movie maestro Larry Cohen keeps it simple." Luke Y. Thompson, Village Voice
"Like Saw and Hostel, Captivity inhabits dank, subterranean chambers where fiendish sadists inflict relentless physical ordeals..." Sight and Sound
Editor's Note
Another unsettling contribution to the torture genre spawned by films like SAW and HOSTEL, CAPTIVITY treads similar terrain while bringing something new to the table. Elisha Cuthbert (THE GIRL NEXT DOOR) is Jennifer, a celebrated runway model who leads a relatively lonely life. One night, after being stood up at a club, she's drugged and wakes up much later in an intricately constructed dungeon. The captor is a mysterious presence who has clearly done this before. As time goes on, the taunting and torture reach nearly unbearable proportions. But before she gives up all hope, Jennifer discovers Gary (Daniel Gillies), another victim, who is determined to break them both out of their horrific prison. A shocking departure for director Roland Joffe, who is best known for helming the 1980s classics THE MISSION and THE KILLING FIELDS, CAPTIVITY is more recognizable as the work of co-screenwriter Larry Cohen (IT'S ALIVE, MANIAC COP, CELLULAR). Stylish and brutal, and featuring another haunting score from Marco Beltrami, CAPTIVITY features a mid-film plot twist that takes the picture to a whole new level.
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