Captivity (film)

Captivity
A close-up of Jennifer Tree's terrified face behind bars.
Theatrical release poster featuring Elisha Cuthbert
Directed byRoland Joffé
Screenplay by
Story byLarry Cohen
Produced by
  • Mark Damon
  • Sergei Konov
  • Gary Mehlman
  • Leonid Minkovski
Starring
CinematographyDaniel C. Pearl
Edited byRichard Nord
Music byMarco Beltrami
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release date
  • 13 July 2007 (2007-07-13)
Running time
85 minutes[2][3]
Countries
  • United States
  • Russia
Languages
  • English
  • Russian
Budget$17 million[4]
Box office$10.9 million

Captivity is a 2007 horror film of the "torture porn" subgenre, directed by Roland Joffé, written by Larry Cohen and Joseph Tura, and starring Elisha Cuthbert and Daniel Gillies. Considered an entry into a subgenre popularized by such film series as Hostel and Saw, the film centres on a young fashion model (Cuthbert) who is abducted and is psychologically tortured by unknown assailants.

  1. ^ "Captivity | Freestyle Releasing". Archived from the original on 14 April 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  2. ^ "Captivity (18)". British Board of Film Classification. 8 June 2007. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference variety was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "'Captivity' is U.S.-Russian production". Los Angeles Times. 6 July 2005.

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