Chained
Chained
R | 02 October 2012 (USA)
Chained Trailers

A serial killer kidnaps a young boy after murdering his mother, then raises him to be his accomplice. After years in captivity, the boy must choose between escaping or following in his captor's bloody footprints.

Reviews
bandito

Tight story and good cast. was impress with the emotional acting. would be great also as a play, mainly happen at the house. was made in canada. few actors and locations, low budget done right. good tempo and spacing , thank you Miss Lynch. hoping her next coming movie will have the same acting quality and direction!

... View More
thesar-2

Hell, even The Room was more enjoyable.When you setup a far-fetched scenario and still want it grounded in somewhat reality, you really gotta sell it. Such as showing more than one scene of the victim acting normal (i.e. trying to escape) and more than one scene of the victim attempting to take on what's holding him/her back and failing. This film failed at these two simple rules and because of this, failed to really capture me into this realm.Worse, there's the ending...sorry, no spoilers, but *that ending.* I think you'll agree.The basic foundation is some sick, twisted cab driver seeks out female targets in order to bring them back to his isolated home and, yeah, kill them. But, one day, he gets more than he bargains for when one female victim comes with her son. Not wanting to kill said boy, the boy becomes the man's hostage for years and years. Supposedly, we're supposed to believe he attempts to escape once. ONCE. And never tried to stop the man when the man continued to bring home women to kill. And he claims he didn't understand or like that task.While the movie's competently shot and well-acted by the females and lead psycho, Vincent D'Onofrio, the suspension of disbelief is far too great and the ending twists are laughable at best. Wish I could recommend this, but then again, wish the movie led somewhere more promising and satisfying.Just watch 2015's Room. Sooo much a better film!***Final thoughts: Yes, 2015's Room came out after this, so maybe those filmmakers learned the lesson from this mostly "okay" movie.

... View More
Alanjackd

Came across this on a movie channel and so checked out reviews beforehand. Very conflicting though so I watched with an open mind!To be honest I spotted the twist very early on as it seemed so obvious but if you're not looking you won't find it. Don't really know what to make of this ...wasn't sure about the acting ,,,seemed as though the director was after was the less is best approach which had me guessing what was going on in their minds. From the IMDb trivia section on this film I see that in the original story a few detectives were hunting the killer down and I thought this would have been a really good plot line as I felt too much time was taken up with quiet scenes of the captor and captive. Not as disturbing as I was lead to believe ,,,not really disturbing at all really as it's quite cold and empty. Would have liked to see more in the way of sub plot but nevertheless a watchable film.Not a movie really...just a film..easily forgettable. Thought the idea of him only killing very pretty girls was a tad disturbing as it was supposed to be a random spree so couldn't understand that part. Will watch a few more of the directors work till I make a decision.

... View More
jenniehayes61

This is the sickest film I've ever watched in my whole life. I will NEVER watch it again and I think it should be banned.Disgusting. Who the hell even thinks this crap up? I wish I'd never seen it. My advice is not to watch it. It isn't worth watching at all. I suppose this probably happens in real life. Missing people, insane maniac murderers actually are around us. This film really is disturbing. It's 3am and I'm not going to sleep any time soon. Sticking to Monsters inc and The Lego movie from now on. This film is worse than any other film I've seen. It's worse than Horror. It shouldn't have even been filmed. I am properly well and truly sickened.

... View More