Chain Letter (2010)

*will contain spoilers* This is a horror movie that has some messy (see the title summary) and insane death scenes. Besides the insane death scenes, this movie really isn't worth watching. You cant get interested in any of the characters, even the main character (or characters because i cant decide if the main character is the detective or the teenage "heroine" Jessie). The killer isn't someone that can save the movie either because he's not some insane monstrous killer like Michael Myers was. He just came off as a random stranger who killed random people. i thought it was like watching an episode of Criminal Minds and i was calling the killer the Unsub. The ending (which i will kinda spoil) is stupid in the sense that it felt like they were going to make a sequel so we can see if the detective dies while the "teenage heroine" is now in different places. I wouldn't spend money on this movie and if you really want to watch it, wait to see it on TV for free (if some TV station wants to play this movie). Basically, Chain Letter is just a carnage candy movie where you cant get invested with the characters. Just call the characters victims because in the end, that's all they'll be.

Flashback to an 80's teen-slasher movie.Oops, and I've deleted so many chain letters.If they kept the atmosphere like in the opening scene throughout the movie, it would have been quite a great movie in its genre. The moment with all those chains reminded me of "Hellraiser" and gave me the hope for an entertaining horror. Vain hope eventually because after the beginning the movie collapsed like a poorly raised plum pudding.Off course all known clichés are used in it : the ubiquitous fog, a bath scene with a nice college girl who,as the tradition dictates, won't survive, a gym, stupid detectives and dumb scared teens. It's something like "Final Destiny" but with a lame story, a totally disappointing ending (that's because the beginning was too strong) and a totally incomprehensible storyline. Afterwards you can only guess why it happened and what the actual reason was. Add to this a terribly bad amateurish group of actors and that damned drizzling rain throughout the complete movie. You surely would get depressed because of that !A total stinker and unworthy for the slasher genre.It's kind of weird because in the cast there are a few who had to know better, according to IMDb. The next persons were present in this flick : 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, and The Hills Have Eyes The Hills Have Eyes 2 Noah Segan: Cabin Fever 2: Spring FeverSo much potential, such a tiny profit. Better forget it as soon as possible.More reviews at http://opinion-as-a-moviefreak.blogspot.be/

Blood and guts with very little plot. CHAIN LETTER has a group of high school friends receiving an electronic chain letter that demands they each forward the message or suffer the consequences. They think very little of the message treating it as an online prank. Now the violence begins as the tech-savvy sender begins tracking down his prey one by one. How long will it take to believe the chain letter is responsible for brutal murders? The remaining teens now take the mystery sender seriously as they are forced to fight for their lives. The graphics are more interesting than the too familiar plot. Dialogue and acting are nothing to rave about; but the murders are creative. In the cast: Madison Bauer, Cherilyn Wilson, Nikki Reed, Matt Cohen, Michael J. Pagan and Brad Dourif.

Just awful. Having read the description of this film (but not the reviews) I decided to give it a watch. Well, it was a waste of 90 minutes. The premise of the film, although not fantastic, could still have worked had it not have been for the lack of plot, a terrible script, a nonsensical ending and some truly awful characters. At no point in the film do you grow to like or hate any of the characters which is a must in any film. It made no sense. So you receive a chain letter which says you will die if you do not pass it on to 5 friends. Fair enough. Those who do, live. Those who don't, die. Almost every character is finished by some unknown person who likes chains (get it...). He likes them a lot. Some gruesome deaths, lots of blood and gore but as it jumps from one person to another you really don't care about who is being killed. You'd be lucky if you could name them as they are popped off one by one. The ending is non-existent - it finishes how it ends. The same girl being killed, in the same way. And, just in case you had forgotten the first 5 minutes of the film you are shown it all over again 80 minutes later. You are only ever given a small clue as to who is behind all of this. Apparently it'll be the technophobes who have bar code tattoos. You are shown who 2 of these are but, after seeing that the killer is a rather muscly, almost hulk like, man you know that neither of these people committed the killings. So, who did? I have no idea. And neither will you. Nor will you care.