Captive

From beginning to, well, I didn't make it to the end, this film is horrible. Throwaway writing poorly executed by lazy directing and stale acting. I feel like this movie was written AND filmed in a weekend. Nothing in this film provokes any sort of interest. It felt like a chore to even make it as far as I did. I found myself more interested in my neighbors moving out and found myself watching them from my window more than I watched this movie. I can't, for the life of me, understand how movies like this get made. Also, it seems as if the actors in this movie are pushing forty but have nothing better to do than break into a house for the weekend? A movie with no redeeming qualities and a complete waste of everyone's time. Including the viewer.

Captivity (2023) was recently added to Tubi and tells the tale of a group of friends who decide to break into an empty house for a weekend of fun. Unfortunately, they find a man chained in the basement and decide to set him free. They won't let this discovery ruin their weekend, but their discovery may decide to ruin theirs...

This movie is directed by Gregg Simon (The Cook) and stars Scout Taylor-Compton (Halloween), Brendan Fehr (Final Destination), Tasie Lawrence (Good Kids), Christina Robinson (Dexter) and Katalina Parrish (The Ridiculous 6).

This is one of those horror movies that feels like they couldn't get anything right. Every decision made in the film is classic horror movie bad. The dialogue and acting are also below par and the soundtrack doesn't always match what's happening in the film, and why did we need a sex with sun glasses on scene? The horror elements are lacking with mediocre vampire transformation scenes and bad CGI attacks and blood splatter. The eyes in this were supposed to be creepy but felt like bad social media filters. The one part of the movie I enjoyed was the attack of the mother.

Overall, this is a disappointing addition to the horror genre that's not worth your time. I would score this a 1/10 and recommend skipping it.

This was a great film. It has the feel of a late 90s stoner film. For example idle hands (but not as funny, more serious). Mixed with a similar feel that you get with your slasher movies. I think it's good that they left alot of the politics plaquing movies recently and just made a fun, not to long, bloody, funny, unique And sometimes scary horror movie. And some people have said the acting was bad, well I 100% disagree. I think they did a great job. And I enjoyed how they changed up the vampire stuff a bit. I really hope tubi keeps doing horror movies and also I love Scout so yay! So please please please keep up the good work with the horror genre tubi.

I assumed that this would suck because it's a Tubi Original, but I was pleasantly surprised. If you've watched enough horror movies, especially slasher movies, you already know all of the story beats--though I appreciated the way that the script makes some creative detours that defy expectations. The cast is uniformly strong, even if the set up beggars belief. You could do a LOT worse than CAPTIVE.

I gave this movie a 5. It's not something you're going to remember years from now, but it's good enough to hook you in and keep you watching. And kudos to Tubi for bringing this worthwhile original to their platform.

1-3 Don't waste your time 4-6 Good 7-9 Excellent 10 Outstanding.

I thought it was enjoyable and camp. It's quite not horror comedy, so it's not tense or scary. I expected a more traditional slasher film, but I enjoyed what they did with it instead. It felt a bit refreshing, and had fun with it.

I thought it had some nice touches, like the ouija board turning out to be them messing around, but it alerts them to the captive banging the pipes. The twist at the end was also fun.

The acting is very reasonable, the overall quality is decent, no issues with the sound quality or anything like that. It's not the most amazing film, and if you want something scary it's not going to scratch that itch. But it's fun.