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Chain Letter

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Six high-school students are warned they will meet with particularly nasty deaths if they fail to forward a chain e-mail.
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Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter By-the-numbers horror flick is about as welcome, and entertaining, as a real chain letter. Oct 5, 2010 Full Review Diego Semerene Slant Magazine Nothing screams hackneyed repurposing like using a Nietzschean citation as preface to very non-Nietzschean drivel. Rated: 1.5/4 Oct 3, 2010 Full Review Dennis Harvey Variety Chain Letter yields few surprises, compensating with de rigueur false scares, unmemorable deaths and the kind of improbably exaggerated gore. Oct 2, 2010 Full Review Mark H. Harris Black Horror Movies Sure, it's an increasingly silly, nonsensical film... but with plentiful gore and brutal kills, Chain Letter is no less entertaining than a movie like See No Evil. Rated: 2.7/5 Jan 9, 2020 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...one of the most disastrously underwhelming and incompetent horror flicks to come around in quite some time... Rated: .5/4 Jun 16, 2012 Full Review Heather Wixson Dread Central Director Deon Taylor loves the horror genre and still knows how to have fun but keep things gritty and intense at the same time. Rated: 3.5/5 Aug 10, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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Bisquiteen T The main girl's teeth remind me of the Trivago guy. Very distracting. Why are they so BIG, and SQUARE, and so white that they're BLUE!? She can't even close her mouth all the way! And sorry, Chompers, you're not Naomi Watts. It's upsetting that the "Deadgirl" actor didn't get more screentime. He was the best part of "Deadgirl" and maybe could've elevated this to more than...dude takes "chain letter" far too literally. And he's the only one who wasn't part of whatever the killer found so offensive about 21st century technology anyway? Makes zero sense. Why does some anarchist group want to kill a bunch of kids for having cellphones? No one could answer that, not even the screenwriter. I love the scene after the first death in the cemetery where the dead kid's dad tells the detective, "You better stop this before more kids die!" Erm, sir, why are you under the impression that other people are also going to die? Formidable Black Detective(TM) really screwed up not immediately looking into that guy as the killer, 'cause...why do you think more kids will die!? (Like, obviously it's not just gonna be some random dad, but what an incredibly WEIRD thing to say at your son's funeral, to a detective.) So, yeah, the writing is bad and awkward. The prettier girl takes a bath with her underwear on! How relatable! And the one guy who plays by the "rules" dies brutally. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE. The technophobia angle is weird. Like, it's just weird. Spam email kills people...it's like it's trying to do a Ring type of thing but it just makes no freakin' sense at all. What reason do these kids have to believe that their hundredth spam email of the day is something to pay attention to? Why does the killer want them to? Never answered. And anyway, if you're going to make technophobia a major theme (the whole reason Brad Dourif is there), why use something as outdated as a chain letter? How is email the big danger to privacy? Never answered. Jill from Saw shows up to do absolutely nothing, as is her forte. Brad Dourif is completely wasted, and it's sad he needed a paycheck so badly. TL;DR: This is dumb, yo. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/12/25 Full Review Emilliano S Bad. Just a very bad, bad horror movie. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 05/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Can't get enough of this movie! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Liked this one a lot ! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Liked this movie a lot. My wife and I jumped a few times in the best kind of way. Kept us on the edge of our seats the whole time. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member A FUN RIDE! Never seen a movie like this, a little campy at times but really enjoyed it! And I didn't see that ending coming!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Six high-school students are warned they will meet with particularly nasty deaths if they fail to forward a chain e-mail.
Director
Deon Taylor
Producer
Michael J. Pagan
Screenwriter
Diana Erwin, Michael J. Pagan, Deon Taylor
Distributor
New Films International
Production Co
Deon Taylor Enterprises
Rating
R (Strong Bloody Sadistic Violenc|Language|Brief Nudity)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 1, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 1, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA)
$143.0K
Runtime
1h 27m
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