Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Ed-Shullivan Of course there have been tens of thousands of real women who have been held captive against their will. As an example there were the three (3) young ladies that were held captive against their will for almost ten (10) years in Cleveland by the serial predator and rapist Ariel Castro. The 2015 film titled Cleveland Abduction documented in detail what these three women went through and how they eventually escaped Castro's in-house prison. (You can read my IMDB review on this film dated May 05th, 2015.)This Lifetime film was deeply unrealistic by how blatantly neglectful both the local police and newspapers were in not covering the abduction story of missing women if it really did occur. This is a very much exaggerated "women held prisoner" by a neat and tidy wacko neighbor. Although the story line is an interesting concept in which the captor is still living in the 1950's based on his physical appearance, the car he drives, and how is basement prison is decorated with retro 1950's furniture and appliances, there doesn't seem to be any Dick Tracy around to solve the case of these missing women.As in many other films, the ending leaves a lot to be desired and was a letdown for me. I give the film a 6 out of 10 rating.

phd_travel There have been quite a few locked in the basement abductions and kidnappings with Ariel Castro in the news. This is an obvious fictional but neat and slightly glossy version that works well in a TV movie.A young couple Courtney Ford and Andrew Walker flee the city after a break in and move to a suburb. Their neatly dressed, pleasant but slightly eccentric looking neighbor is well played by Shaun Benson. When he decides to keep her in the basement where there is a prettily set up home and another woman, the creepiness is quite well done. Things are kept plausible enough even if the basement is a little too attractive and efficiently done.Lesson: Sometimes the City is safer than the burbs.

zonkerjohn very poor credibility, and bad acting by lead female.credibility: a woman goes into a house of her neighbor who she has suspicions about.her fiancée should have immediately been suspecting foul play by, among other things, the fact that she left he cell phone back.the police should have been more suspicious of her neighbor.I thought she did a horrible acting job, at least when she was first there, as she did not seem nearly as distraught as she should be at the potential of her horrifying fate.it was an intriguing story and did have its moments.

edwagreen This is such a diabolical plot. Having walked in on a burglary in their home, a young couple move to the suburbs to escape the so called crime in the city. What they come upon in their new digs is just too incredible to believe. Their neighbor is a young college professor who waits until the couple has a tiff and invites the woman to his home.He then proceeds to kidnap the woman and place her in the basement in a bunker like atmosphere. Another woman, totally complacent and in a trance is also being held there.The only way our recent victim can survive is to play along with her captive. This provokes eventual jealousy from the other woman and gets the latter killed.A cop friend of the couple meets a similar fate when he begins to suspect what is occurring. Our killer sends emails to her boyfriend telling him that she has left him for another man.Playing along is the only way for survival and eventual freedom. Quite eerie to say the least.