Captive (2023)

• Year: 2023
• Released: 15 Jun 2023
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11584674/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/captive
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• Genre: Horror
• Runtime: 81 min
• Writer: Travis Seppala
• Director: Gregg Simon
• Cast: Scout Taylor-Compton, Cody Frank, Tasie Lawrence
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4.0/10

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Surprisingly good

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.

Don’t waste your time.

Don’t waste your time. I love Scout Taylor-Compton and I loved her in Rob Zombie’s Halloween 1 and 2 but I’m still waiting for get a decent role in a fantastic movie. This is not it.

A group of young adults break into a rich couple’s house to party. But that scenario works if they’re teens and live with their parents; these characters are all in their twenties and have their own places, why would they risk arrest to break into someone’s house? Lots of plot holes.

Scout Taylor-Compton’s character complains about her boyfriend (like she did in the beginning of “The Long Night”), and the group finds a man chained in the basement. They release him and find out he’s a vampire, whom Scout Taylor-Compton falls in love with. Not a bad premise, but then it’s just routine vampire carnage.

A very mediocre story. If they’re going to put Scout Taylor-Compton in a vampire movie, they need an original story and plot like Lost Boys or Fright Night or 30 Days of Night. Captive feels routine and mediocre in EVERY way.

Don’t waste your time. It’s not fun. It’s not titillating. It’s not funny. It’s not intriguing. Great effects and music but it’s boring and routine.

Unintentional Cheese?..or was it?

I didn’t hate this but didn’t love it either. If you want a truly scary Vampire flick, this one ain’t it. This one is pure non-serious camp and cheese. I wouldn’t say for that reason that it’s bad, because it still entertains. It’s just lackluster.

It’s not self-aware enough to be a horror-comedy, and not amusing enough to be an intentional one. It’s billed on Tubi as a Horror Thriller. But it’s not dark nor thrilling enough to ever be scary, or frightful, it doesn’t even try.

And though there is a twist at the end that I won’t reveal (i liked the twist), the acting is never convincing enough to consider this a true Thriller. But, – it does have a little bit of cheap fun while it tries.

This is mostly a film to showcase Scout Taylor Compton in a new role and she actually does quite well with the material despite it being a thinly written character along with the rest of the bag.

Everything about this movie is sub-par cheese. From the chunky metal-chords of the opening theme song, to the low budget CGI of the title card and unconvincing acting.

The film didn’t begin to pick up my attention much until half way through the runtime. After the 30 something year old Scooby Doo gang is established It becomes rather tongue in cheek while remaining corny through out, but ultimately things do develop towards a twist.

Scout did well as the ‘girl who wants more’ who transforms along in-to more. But the film’s limitations head to an interesting plot twist that deserved a better movie.

Overall this held my attention but the development was obviously low budget. The “action” scenes were shot and edited kind of poor. Certainly not the worst I’ve seen, but the music through out most of the film is beyond corn, and does indeed ruin all seriousness, and it really deflates an otherwise decent atmosphere. The music and editing deflates the efforts of the actors in some scenes. They missed the mark in many ways to truly deepen this as a genre film.

Had this been sharply edited, more artisticly shot, with better music, and the acting just a pinch more convincing, it could have been a modern masterpiece.

I would have to say Scout is the best part because she plays a dual role well here, and has fine-tuned her nuance. It’s too bad they couldn’t spend more money on production and gore because the aesthetic of their shooting location could have called for more.

This is a Charles Manson-y, Hollywood Hills-y, Cult-y Vamp flick that could have used a boost. But for Tubi’s Cheesy portal of free specials.. it’s okay. Check it out at your own risk. It does have Scout in a bathing suit and mini skirt playing one of her best kinds of roles. She was the stand out.