NEWS: An Invitation...To Captivity

I like my women so empowered, that they can throw a loaded school bus across Snake River Canyon. Rawr!

I don't think people should flip out so hard over this. It's not like SG is synonymous with shitty torture movies.

Not being inclined to read all seven pages of this thread, but it occurs to me that at first glance at the Front Page of SG, it looks like "Captivity: Now Flaying Elisha Cuthbert"

This is my favorite snippet:

The best review in the bunch.

I was just on IMDB.com and found out what the captivity directors next film is...

a t.a.t.u. movie... there is no emoticon for my astonishment.

Do they kidnap Britney Spears and torture her?

Heh.

I guess I've been out of the loop with regards to the apparent contraversy over this film, as the ads around NYC have been pretty standard fare from what I could tell. I went to see it last night on a whim, knowing next to nothing about it, and I can say with total confidence that it was the worst movie I've seen in years.

Obviously it's not scary (few horror films are these days, save for the needle in a haystack that was "The Descent"), but it's also not terribly gratuitous, and by no means suspenseful or even remotely thought-provoking. It just felt like a genuine waste of time. Honestly, my trip to the bathroom afterwards was more memorable and fulfilling.

But I'm preaching to the choir no matter where I go: The film is a total box office flop, making barely $500,000 its first day of release. For those of you that don't keep up with box office figures, that amounts to less than 1/3 of the opening day revenue of other forgotten modern horror flops such as "See No Evil," "Turistas" and "Dead Silence."

The best "Captivity" could hope for at this point is matching the commercial failure of "High Tension," which would vindicate the protesters of this picture's alleged mysogynist exploits were it not so obvious that the failure lies largely on the fact that it's just a really boring, really lame film that even die-hard horror fans don't care about. I guarantee "License To Wed" is scarier than this, and infinitely more successful.

This says it all really. Enjoy!

http://www.pajiba.com/captivity.htm

Best. Review. EVAR.

Maybe the title of the thread should be changed to An invitation to....Craptivity.

The movie was visually appealing, but it lacked in character development, and all horror movies these days are way to by the book. O well at least the remake of Halloween should be worth a viewing, Rob Zombie gets it.

It tanked.

A film starring Elisha Cuthbert sucked? And completely tanked? I'm shocked.

From Variety:

One weak spot over the weekend -- auds didn't go for horror title "Captivity," the only other new wide release after "Phoenix," fueling sentiments that the torture-porn genre is stale. Pic, from After Dark Films, made estimated $1.5 million from 1,050 locations, putting it at No. 12.

No surprise it failed to get any viewers this weekend. They should have just done a direct to video release in the first place. SG could have promoted that too, I guess.

They should have sent out more invitations.

Ghostwritten by Thomas Pynchon.

so i finally got around to watching it... it didn't even remotely deliver.

seriously, this whole controversy is/was pure hype. it's a weak movie -- both in terms of not sucking and in terms of actually involving some kind of "oh my god, this is fucked up" factor. the first season of Dexter was a lot more twisted than this... Captivity was just, meh. a thousand mehs in unison.

For the record, I think that anyone who types "WhatEVER!!!" like that should be shot.