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4.1/10
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A maniac murders teens when they refuse to forward chain mail.A maniac murders teens when they refuse to forward chain mail.A maniac murders teens when they refuse to forward chain mail.
Roshan Cook
- Emo Girl
- (as Roshani Shookla)
Eliot Schwartz
- Kevin
- (as Eliot Benjamin)
Storyline
Did you know
- Trivia(at around 13 mins) Betsy Russell, who portrays Sergeant Hamill, was a featured character in the Saw (2004) film franchise. When the character Neil first receives the chain letter, the original "Saw" is playing on his television in the background.
- Goofs(at around 1h 15 mins) Detective Crenshaw has just been knocked out by the Chain Man and is being dragged across the floor. They pass by an empty cabinet/display by the wall and you can see Detective Crenshaw's hand place or move something into the cabinet. A couple of seconds later his hand moves back up to his waist, all while he is unconscious.
- Quotes
[first lines]
TV Announcer: We are live on the scene at the Carlson Police Department with a shocking new development in the teen murder spree. A police detective investigating these heinous crimes has now gone missing. Authorities have yet to comment other than to say parents need to stay close to their teens and keep them well guarded till further notice.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Phelous & the Movies: Phain Letter (2011)
- SoundtracksFeel My Love
Performed by Dillon F. Gorman
Written by Dillon F. Gorman
Published by Chillin' Dillon's Music ASCAP
Featured review
Barrel scraping, third division mess
Viewed at the Festival de Film, Cannes 2010
If all you want from a horror film are some gory kills and blood, go ahead, knock yourself out and have a ball. But if you want anything more, say a decent script, a story that makes sense, characters, even one, you can root for, some logic, even internal logic, and finally a decent killer with motivation, look elsewhere. Make no mistake Chain Letter is a mess.
So much of this film makes no or very little sense it's hard to know where to start. Basically, teens who receive a chain letter and fail to pass it on get offed. Why they are getting this letter I could never figure out. How the killer manages to do what he does defies even the often screwy logic of such films. At times he seems to be in several places at once, doing different things. It's almost like the producers took every draft script and shuffled them together, pulling out 100 pages at random and saying, "Now let's make this one"!
Even if Chain Letter were good, and it's anything but, it would still not rise above the level of clichéd and derivative: the Japanese do it so much better. Heck! Just about everyone does it better!
I love horror films, I even enjoy ones that are so bad they're good. There's usually something to be found in them. But treat Chain Letter like the real thing: don't pass it on no matter what the promise, just trash it.
If all you want from a horror film are some gory kills and blood, go ahead, knock yourself out and have a ball. But if you want anything more, say a decent script, a story that makes sense, characters, even one, you can root for, some logic, even internal logic, and finally a decent killer with motivation, look elsewhere. Make no mistake Chain Letter is a mess.
So much of this film makes no or very little sense it's hard to know where to start. Basically, teens who receive a chain letter and fail to pass it on get offed. Why they are getting this letter I could never figure out. How the killer manages to do what he does defies even the often screwy logic of such films. At times he seems to be in several places at once, doing different things. It's almost like the producers took every draft script and shuffled them together, pulling out 100 pages at random and saying, "Now let's make this one"!
Even if Chain Letter were good, and it's anything but, it would still not rise above the level of clichéd and derivative: the Japanese do it so much better. Heck! Just about everyone does it better!
I love horror films, I even enjoy ones that are so bad they're good. There's usually something to be found in them. But treat Chain Letter like the real thing: don't pass it on no matter what the promise, just trash it.
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- Simonster
- Mar 29, 2011
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Chuỗi Thư Chết Chóc
- Filming locations
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $138,788
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $138,788
- Oct 3, 2010
- Gross worldwide
- $855,185
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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