2007 · crime · horror · thriller
Captivity
Directed by Roland Joffé1h 25m2007
The sought-after images of top model Jennifer adorn magazine covers and billboards worldwide. When alone at a club, she is abducted and incarcerated in a cell with another prisoner. When their captor subjects the two to torture, they commit to escaping the chamber of horrors before they're killed.
Our read: Captivity (2007) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded crime · horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme crime / horror, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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“You knowingly want punishing torture-thriller horror with almost no relief or artistry.”
Skip it tonight — Skip unless you want grim captive torture with gore and sexual-abuse flashbacks.
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