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| 3 | ''Captivity'' is a 2007 PsychologicalHorror film directed by Roland Joffé and starring Creator/ElishaCuthbert, Creator/DanielGillies, and Creator/PruittTaylorVince. |
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| 5 | Jennifer Tree (Cuthbert) is a model who gets captured and wakes up in a strange cell. She spends most of the movie trying to escape and then she discovers she's not the only one who is captured. |
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| 7 | !!Tropes associated with ''Captivity'': |
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| 9 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Ben and Gary Dexter]], the torturers that captured Jennifer, get their just desserts. |
| 10 | * BludgeonedToDeath: How the tortured man in the movie’s intro finally meets his end: a hammer to the head. |
| 11 | * CannibalLarder: A fridge with bloody remains and a human foot is revealed to shove said remains into a blender. |
| 12 | * CorruptTheCutie: [[spoiler:Jennifer escapes, but not before killing Ben, one of the detectives, and leaving Gary to die. The alternate ending even suggests she becomes a KnightTemplar who hunts and kills people like him.]] |
| 13 | * CoversAlwaysLie: The controversial advertising campaign included a series of posters suggesting a female character's kidnapping, torture, and murder (or execution). [[spoiler:Jennifer actually survives the ending.]] |
| 14 | * DoYouWantToCopulate: One of the most bizarre scenes in the movie; [[spoiler:after failing to escape with Gary (believing he's another prisoner), she thinks he's injured and tries to help him, leading to sex]]. |
| 15 | * FreudianExcuse: The reason that [[spoiler:the Dexter brothers]] are capturing and torturing women is to [[spoiler:recreate all the torture they endured by their mother as children]]. |
| 16 | * GroinAttack: Jennifer kicks [[spoiler:Gary Dexter]] in the sack during a tense fight. |
| 17 | * HollywoodAcid: Jennifer gets shown video of a woman captured by the torturers getting rained on by a showerhead trickling acid. |
| 18 | * HellbentForLeather: Jennifer wears a leather skirt in one scene. We even have her bending over so that we get a look at her ass. |
| 19 | * LimaSyndrome: A very, very dark variant. [[spoiler:Gary claims to be in love with Jennifer, and kills his brother - or tries to - in order to protect her, then later claims she belongs to him. She doesn't appreciate it.]] |
| 20 | %% * MaleGaze: See above. |
| 21 | %% * MsFanservice: Jennifer. |
| 22 | * NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Gary tries to kill Ben and the detectives, but as it turns out, both aren't actually dead yet; this is the DeusExMachina that saves Jennifer.]] |
| 23 | * RevisedEnding: An ending was filmed but not used (but is included on the DVD) in which [[spoiler:the man being tortured and killed with a hammer in the opening scene is revealed (through press clippings) to be a three-time murderer of women; his assailant is revealed to be Jennifer.]] |
| 24 | * RunningGag: Jennifer being knocked unconscious. |
| 25 | * TorturePorn: Was originally going to be a PsychologicalHorror, but was reshot as a Torture Porn flick. |
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