Captives

Year: 1988

Runtime: 84 mins

Language: English

Horror

Praised as an accomplished SOV horror, Captives is Gary Cohen’s second feature. While the husband works, three intruders break into a couple’s home, not to rob but to show the wife a videotape revealing the husband’s violent, drug‑ridden past she never imagined. As the encounter turns deadly, she must confront the truth and face an unimaginable future.

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