Chain letter movie who is the killer

Cleavers, axes, scythes — these are items that anyone can get from a local hardware store; combine any of these with a person of mind bent on slaughter and viola — murder! A chain letter is as good a reason as any for a deranged teen killer. With so much junk mail in our inboxes, this is certainly something everyone reading this article will be able to relate to.

Some of the warnings on chain-letters have delighted me in their proclamations of doom and woe, they go into great detail about what will happen should I fail to make my deliveries. A movie where the warnings are enforced will be good use of a common annoyance. Please help and thanx. Betsy Russel is so hot and i seen the trailer of chainletter she even looked hot in that movie to cant wait to see the whole thing.

I have high hopes for chain letter. I eagerly wait to watch the whole movie. I really like the concept of the film. I got a chance to see chain letter at the sac film festival. The movie is well put together! The director Deon Taylor had a chance to speak about it when the film ended. The kind of horror movies i grew up with next to Jason and Freddy Krueger.

Michael J. Just seen the trailler for this movie, Looks pretty crazy, I saw it on Deontaylorenterprises. I cannot wait to see this movie, Nikki Reed is smoking, and after her performance in Twilight I am a fan. It was a flop with the fans. Reports of making other novels into movies have not proved accurate.

Delete this Chain Letter and move on with your life. A group of high school students are hunted down by a killer when they don't forward an odd chain letter they get. In the underrated horror film Chain Letter, six High School friends are sent an e-mail chain letter that they must pass on to others or some brute of a serial killer will use chains get it to exact pain and suffering. If this all sounds routinely boring or low budget — think again.

Chain Letter might not give Inception a run for the most interesting and inventive film of the year, but it is an above average horror film with serviceable acting and some good gore contained within its minute frame. As with any good horror, a challenging and memorable beginning can make or break an entire film, and in Chain Letter, director Deon Taylor gives us an opening that catches our attention with a scene that still lacks the bloody payoff.

A female body with a duct taped face is lying in a garage. Chains from both her feet are shown leading to two separate vehicles parked in the garage. As the unsuspecting drivers of the two vehicles begin to travel in seemingly separate directions, we watch aghast at the carnage that is about to ensue.

The film then introduces us to the six lead characters of the film which are lead by the gorgeous Nikki Reed Twilight as Jessie Campbell. When each of them are forwarded a mysterious chain letter, they are quick to dismiss it even as the communication hints at a life lost if instructions are not followed.

But things have to be taken more seriously after one of them disappears and others are found murdered in gruesome fashion. So with a detective played by the ever consistent Keith David trying to put the pieces of the murderous rampage together and the remaining group of friends struggling with emotions and the fear of being 'next', Chain Letter hits its groove and delivers on the many levels that usual straight-to-DVD horror films ignore.

That's not to suggest that Chain Letter is perfect or is the 'next big thing' as a potential franchise. But with a cast that also includes Brad Dourif and Betsy Russell and a killer that says not a word but goes about his bloody work, Chain Letter proves that a horror film can stick to many of the usual conventions and still be a valued piece of entertainment. In the late of the 's was a big time for get fun in the net: chat rooms, webcam video calls or chain letters about superstitions, information or jokes.

A typical teen horror film with some interesting scenes but no more! Overall, its not really worth recommending because the ending ruins the film enough to render any plus points meaningless. A group of high school friends pass a digital chain letter to each other sent from a real killer. The killer is using the kid's technology against them and gives them 24 hours to send it to someone else.

Most ignore it until they are found brutally killed. Jessie Campbell Reed begins to catch on and tries to convince her friends and the police that this is real. Flirting with torture porn in places but really a bloody slasher movie at heart, 'Chain Letter' unfortunately takes one step backwards for every step taken forward. Director Deon Taylor makes a huge mistake opening the film by showing the audience the final scene.

It is quite a dozy but it is completely ruined when we get there from seeing it in the beginning. One step forward and then back. The killer is a savage and the deaths are extremely gory and nasty. One step forward. Taylor manages no suspense at all to his death scenes and the attempts at jump scares don't work. One step back. The body count is high and the movie is well made. The plot has holes you could drive a car through with lapses in logic.

Slightly entertaining in a dry way, this movie is frustrating overall and never catches a rhythm due to its inconsistency. After searching for another thriller and gruesome movie, i finally find one, "chain letter". The story, everyone know this is another teen movie although i am an adult but i still enjoy this a lot. It is about a chain letter and as you know the story goes one.

The plot is mainly focusing at technology and not with the title itself. What i can say is that it is better to categorize this into "horror" instead of other genre. I remember some countries in the world are quite fantasized with the so called chain letter. I received it myself ten to fifteen years ago but with different purpose. It goes like this, "if you sent it to 10 people you will get lucky and to 20 or more you will get luckier.

It was in the 80's so "this" chain letter movie is simply outdated and no research has been made before from the director sorry but no offend. I'm presuming that the people who run the Encore Suspense channel make sure that the prints of movies they get are complete and that the reels are shown in correct order. With this, it was hard to tell. The main characters are high school students whose lives glide along without parents.

At any hour of the day or night they are always in their huge homes all by themselves or, at best, with another teenager. There are adults in the story, two police officers who do have the best of intentions. Sergeant Hamill at least tries to solve the murders that form the core of the plot, but her part is so underwritten that her character could have been eliminated.

Detective Crenshaw is more interesting because he has absolutely no common sense. He'll follow up a lead at an isolated location all by himself, never calling for backup, never taking even the most minimal precautions. It rains at night.

It rains during the day. Worst of all, it continues raining during a funeral scene where the rain is in sharp contrast to the bright sunlight we see everywhere. The plot has to do with some anti-technology nuts who hate computers and cell phones, so they kill off teenagers who use these devices.

It would have made more sense had they targeted, maybe, the CEO of Apple, but that would have been some work for the writers. The plot device is based on killing anyone who fails to forward a chain letter.

Fortunately for the killers, none of these teenagers forwards the chain to anyone who lives outside of Sacramento. That was nice of the kids. Don't try too hard to guess the killer's or killers' identity, because that's a little detail the writers forgot to include. The movie does not end, it simply stops.

For what it's worth, though, the last ninety seconds actually did make me jump and that one moment is truly shocking. It comes out of nowhere, but it is effective.

There are a few good things about the film. There's nice camera work with some well done crane shots, and the musical score is pretty well textbook but appropriate.

But the writing is terrible, although I'd suspect that there were many scenes that were written and may or may not have been filmed that would have tied the story together into a cohesive whole. The general idea of the movie is very, very, very weak version of "The Missed Call". Unfortunately for us the writers tried to insert "logic" or "background" into the story but they fail abysmally. Instead of gradation of the tension, there is only chain of random deaths caused by cult which seems to consist from several conspirators and one very angry very badly burned boy.

If they would decide to avoid logic completely and made the enemy completely mysterious as in Japanese horror movies or in Final Destination or the enemy was clever psychopath or "the guy who just cannot be killed", the result could be at least average. What is most surprising, the movie does not have climax at all. There is no ending nor explanation why the story ended how it ended. The authors of script have tried to play clever games with swapping of scenes the movie basically ends with the starting scene , they even included the titles before ending of the movie.

There are absolutely unrealistic characters I have never witnessed any guy playing World of Warcraft, then girl calls him, says "go immediately here" and he just stops playing on the spot and walks away.

There are nonsense murders, there is no realistic attempt to fight the problem. And yes, there are some cool tunes in the movie. Sorry, you do not include "Glee-grade" cool tunes in the horror movie.

It just never works. You don't get to see any actual kills, only an assumption is made and the newsman tells you, just in case you are too dumb to make that assumption. Not sure why this is rated R or even MA, an M at best and that's only because of the breast shot of Rachel Cherilyn Wilson , so thanks for that. Overall, it's a bit boring, but I did manage to watch it until the end, I was waiting for some grisly action that never came.

Watchable, don't expect to see any killings, 5 out of 10 and the extra star for the bath scene. Jakealope 30 May I was looking through Red Box the other night when I rented this load of crap. Serial killer movies have grown from genre to category next to Drama or Comedy. No one expects too much from any of these genres but this movie manages to out stupid the worst in each of the above genres. OK, teens get weird chain email threatening death if they don't spam 5 friends with a forward of the email.

So real steel chains are literally used to dismember these teenagers if they delete CHAIN letter, get it? It was reminiscent of Hellraiser with all those chains and hooks tearing into bodies but minus the supernatural voodoo that made that movie bearable.

First off, there is supposed to be some sort of conspiracy, some Luddite anti technology group that is protesting our loss of privacy via cell phone and internet technology. So why pick 5 random teen agers to kill in a gruesome fashion but with no terrorist demands or media frenzy to promote the cause?

In all those teen slasher movies the teens did something or went somewhere they weren't supposed to and the monster had some good reason to kill them, like they just had sex or something.

But no real motives here, from a cell of supposed warped Unibomber type geniuses who want to send out a message. Then the conspiracy finds some Leather Face Texas Chainsaw guy to do the actual murders, which makes so much sense. Then, for all the yapping about decreased privacy due to things like cell phone tracking, all the teens were killed right at their homes or in their favorite haunts, that took no technical wizardry past a phone book to track them.

Then we have a veteran cop who is supposed to be tracking all this but never once does he call in for any sort of backup as he goes rummaging around empty plant buildings by his lonesome in his town's biggest crime wave investigation.

Finally there is this utterly stupid and gory dismemberment scene that opened and closed the film, literally a repeat. There was no coherent plot and a cheap theme that doesn't even tie the movie together. There was one teen who even forwarded the messages but got wasted anyways as soon as he deleted his copy.

It made no sense on so many levels and was simply a cheapest sort of exploitation of an exploitation movie.

But at least that one had a coherent if silly and derivative plot. BakuryuuTyranno 4 March It's incredible how minor details can ruin everything. Toward the start, the contacts the letter gets forwarded includes a "Michael", although the character "Kevin" is supposed to receive it instead. Michael mentions not getting it while rambling ; his later dialogue implies he got it and thinks he's being targeted, which, unless you're paying close attention it seems there's one more potential victim than there should be.

Perhaps multiple script drafts were mixed up? That's one detail which renders the plot partly incomprehensible, because really, in a film like "Chain Letter" the audience should know which characters are potential victims. This makes the story harder to follow than any slasher flick should be. An error has occured. Please try again. Create a list ».

Which, along with the voice-over, lets us know that the captured soldier was brutally tortured before being rescued. So obviously he's pretty upset about that. This article is a little confusing, since its place in the timeline isn't exactly clear. The specific soldier referred to by the other articles can't have been involved in this protest for reasons we'll get into soon enough , so its presence here is merely offered to suggest that vets might have a problem with technology.

Not that that has anything to do with anything. So now the brutally injured soldier has disappeared from the hospital in which he was being treated, moving the backstory slightly forward. Soldiers only receive emergency care in-country.

The second they're stabilized enough to be moved they go to a proper hospital, in either Germany or America. So, at this point in the story, we know that a brutalized soldier has disappeared from the hospital where he was being treated for his injuries. And now we know that the soldier in question has joined up with an anti-technology group, offering an explanation for the targets he'll be chasing after in the story.

So, to recap, by the end of the credits we know that there's a badly-injured special forces soldier out there who blames technology for the death of his unit, as well as his own maiming. So when we get a look at our killer-. And the looks never get better than that, folks. We can extrapolate that this badly injured man is the selfsame soldier that the articles discussed.

Add this to the fact that the town where the murders are being committed in the American town most-associated with telecommunications research, and the fact that an old farmer:. Tells Keith David that the chains being used in the murder were of a kind made by a local blacksmith now dead named Wilson, whose son 'went off to that war', and you've got a pretty good picture of the killer's identity. Especially when Keith is able to track the killer to the defunct meat packing plant that Wilson used to supply chains to.

There you have it. Wilson Jr. When he arrived back in American he blamed telecommunications for his personal tragedy, and his rage built until he felt the need to lash out. He fled the hospital and met up with a like-minded cult, who gave him the technological know-how to set up his little chain letter scheme.