Chain Letter (2010)
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Duration: 96 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Deon Taylor
Stars: Nikki Reed, Betsy Russell and Brad Dourif
IMDb score:
4,1 (5.913)
Releasedate: 1 October 2010
Chain Letter plot
"If you don't forward it, you die."
The 'Chain Man' is a deranged killer who kills people with a chain when they refuse his order to send chain messages via email. He targets a group of students, but then gets the police on his heels.
Actors and actresses
Jessie Campbell
Det. Jim Crenshaw
Chain Man
Mr. Smirker
Sergeant Hamill
Rachael Conners
Jai Pham
Johnny Jones
Dante
Jane Campbell
Reviews & comments
Keane1983
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- 1015 messages
- 943 votes
A teen-age slasher that doesn't excel in any area.
The acting is mediocre, the story is very predictable and the kills are depicted too darkly (and no, I haven't seen a copy).
Still, I think more could have been done with the storyline, which I actually liked.
Now there are standard characters left and scary moments that you see coming well in advance.
Still finished the film, compare it to fire... you keep watching it even though it isn't really anything special.
A 1.5* from me
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ikkegoemikke
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- 3449 messages
- 4932 votes
Flashback to an 80s teen-slasher movie.
Oops, and I've already deleted so many chain letters 
If the tone of the opening scene had been maintained, it would still have been a pretty good film in its genre. And the scene with all those chains reminded me of "Hellraiser" and also gave me hope for an entertaining horror. Vain hope in the end because after the beginning the whole film collapses like a poorly risen plum pudding.
All known clichés are included, of course: the ubiquitous fog, a bath scene with a hot college girl who, according to tradition, will not survive, a gymnasium, stupid detectives and stupid anxious teenagers. Something in the nature of "Final Destiny" but with a meaningless story with a completely disappointing ending (well the beginning was also strong) and a completely incomprehensible storyline where afterwards you have to guess why it had to happen this way and what the actual reason was . Add to that some terribly amateurish bad acting and that damned drizzling rain throughout the entire movie. Less would make a person depressed 
Total failure and unworthy of the slasher genre.
It's strange because there are a few in the cast who should have known better, according to IMDB.
NL.
Betsy Russell: Saw
Michael J. Pagan: See no Evil
Charles Fleischer: A nightmare on Elm Street
Keith David: The Thing
Matt Cohen: Boogeyman 2
Michael Bailey Smith: A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child, The Hills Have Eyes and The Hills Have Eyes 2
Noah Segan: Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
So much potential, such a minimal result.
So quickly forgotten.
1*
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Shadowed
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- 11421 messages
- 6719 votes
Director Deon Taylor has bounced around in all directions during his career when it comes to genres, with both horror and comedy works that are very different from each other each time. Chain Letter is also a completely different film, but in terms of quality it fits in seamlessly with Taylor's other works. The central message is that it should be clear that the internet has had an extremely decisive influence on our daily lives, but in all honesty this social criticism mainly forms a lame and poorly developed layer to provide the film with some depth. The acting is actually even worse, which makes it nice that the characters are killed off after a while at a nice pace. The murders are brutal and the filters extremely striking, but Taylor often uses tension and it barely comes across. Especially because the tension building is very chaotic and the editing is extremely confusing, but ultimately Chain Letter looks quite nice as a pulp film.
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