GL84 After receiving and failing to forward a chain letter, a group of friends find themselves killed off one-by-one by a masked madman and must find a way to stop him before they're all killed.There was a lot of good things here which makes this a great deal of fun. The most notable of the film's positives is the awesome death scenes which are incredibly gory and a lot of fun. Some of the kills are pretty suspenseful and definitely creepy, and the action presented in the set-ups are rather fun, from the film's opening where a chained victim to different cars driving away from the same driveway, the football player who gets his face ripped apart by the steel in the high-school gym or the garage encounter in front of the visiting friend. That also helps out here with the stalking scenes throughout here as this one generates some really tense and thrilling scenes which makes for a surprisingly suspenseful time, as the walk-through of the abandoned pant with the dangling chains makes for a really comic feel, the big encounter in the bathroom where he traps her girlfriend inside and has to hold him off from breaking in is a particularly chilling highlight sequence and the stalking of the brother is really creepy with the continuous chain letters popping up driving him insane before getting to the big ambush kill in fine fashion are all really fun suspense scenes that make for a really great time here. This one also manages to get a lot right with the killer featured here who is quite imposing, not only being a muscular hulk of a man but wears a really imposing mask that works well due to the simplicity of it all, plus there's the added bonus of the unusual weapon for doling out the death that works really well and adds an extra dimension to the kills. These here are more than enough to hold this one up against the few flaws. The main problem here, which is what's really damaging to the film overall, is the utter cluelessness of them to figure out what's going on, waiting until far too late into the film to finally determine the true nature of what's happening and getting the proper authorities to realize the matter from there doesn't have any time to develop because of their cluelessness, which could've been avoided rather early on. As well, the cult angle comes out of nowhere and has so little set-up it's hard to feel for them since we know nothing about them, their purpose or even the motive behind this batch of kills, making for a wholly disappointing story overall that makes the first half here rather tough to get into. Likewise, there's also a pretty weak and overall lousy suspense scene in that section where he stalks the friend in the gym in a really protracted sequence that forever and really weakens it's suspenseful attempts here. It's still watchable due to the gore and the kills, but a little more info would work well.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Brief Nudity.

internethotspot OK there IS good acting. And the plot makes sense. However, there are far too many inconsistencies and inaccuracies to make this a viable horror movie. It will appeal to those that use technology but know nothing about it, so if this is you, then you will enjoy this movie if you enjoy the horror genre.The brother is playing World of Warcraft, and he says the guy is losing his Experience Points (XP). You can't lose XP in Warcraft, you can only gain it.He receives a message that replaces Warcraft on his screen. If that actually happened, he would have to have a VERY serious hack where someone already had remote control of his system. It's pretty unlikely, but possible.An email from unknown... virtually anyone with email has a JUNK MAIL FOLDER! Any unknown sender would automatically be sent to junk mail.But say it did get through, then it would have a header that could be traced to some degree. But his real concern is getting a firewall either on his router or on his computer.A girl whacks her head on a garage door, and neither driver felt it or heard anything.There's a huge guy walking around on a roof top, and the kid can't hear anything. Pretty unlikely.There's a crazy looking monster size dude going around town, and nobody notices him in his car, on his bicycle or walking or whatever. Also some strange lead at a farmer's that serves no purpose. The farmer tells the detective to get lost... and that's about the end of it.I've still no idea if the bar codes were in any way tied to the bad guy...OK now for a review of the movie... it's inconsistent, seems to go nowhere... ends with the bad guy still doing his thing... still people on his list to kill... he's still out there...Forward this to 5 people or you will get pimples.OK - no sweat. I will send it to all the dictators in the world and let them worry about it. (Why didn't these kids think to do this instead of sending it to their friends?)

trashgang Chain Letter was made at the time that the Saw franchise was over and all torture porn was over. The producers even got Betsy Russell in this flick who got fame due the Saw franchise. But the story itself is a bit weak.Deon Taylor, the director would like to make a good horror but so far he failed, his first attempt 7eventy 5ive (2007) wasn't that good but he knew he had to add some gory bits to the story. That succeeded here in Chain Letter but you just couldn't get involved with the characters. Even the story about the killer isn't really explained. It do make you think about being online and using cellphones with GPS and things you are giving free to hackers without knowing it. But most of those flicks fail to deliver, Hellraiser Hellworld (2005) showed us that even an horror icon just couldn't deliver pain and torture. The script also reminded me on the overlooked FearDotCom (2002). It also shows that when you put big names from the genre in one flick it doesn't give you a hit. Nikki Reed here as Jessie Campbell and seen in the Twilight saga is the main lead and she did well but still I just couldn't care what would happen to her. And look the the fallen angel Noah Segan, he was going to be the next thing in the genre and made a few good flicks, Deadgirl (2008) and his breakthrough with Cabin Fever 2 and Someone's Knocking At The Door, both from 2009. Here he got just a small role. Of course the teaser would be Brad Dourif, but again he just got a small part.Luckily the film is saved by the gore added and it was good to see that it was done with the real stuff and not with CGI. It do has a few gory moments but for a torture porn too less to become a classic. The suspense is just not there. Maybe the underground figure was Cherilyn Wilson as Rachael Conners, she do moved on from this flick to small roles in Dexter and True blood, one to look out for and she isn't afraid to show her body, She's the only one here who goes fully undressed and has a close-up as gratuitous as it can be of her juggs. Chain Letter isn't that good after all but some gore saved the letter...Gore 3/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 4/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

BakuryuuTyranno 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.