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!

johnmonter I didn't expect much of this movie. But still can't believe that a movie that mostly plays just at one location can be that great. But it really was. A movie that entertained me from the first to the last minute. There are not many like this.

melissalunsford For some reason I had some trouble tracking this film down but I was finally able to get my hands on a copy and boy am I glad I did, anything starring Vincent D'Onofrio always peaks my interest (I mean come on, have you seen his work in The Cell?!) and he is one of my most favored actors. D'Onofrio showcases his talents best when portraying the villain who I have to admit, I always find myself secretly rooting for. This film is well acted by all who participated and the grand twist at the end is a real shocker, it just goes to show that you never really know who you can trust. This was the first encounter I have had with Eamon Farren but I was very pleased with his acting, this film has a good story line that will hold your attention until the end and as gruesome as it was at points I just couldn't look away...that is how you know you have found a good film. I give Chained a 6 out of 10 stars and would recommend giving it a shot, it really is a KILLER film. ;)

chaos-rampant Lynch tried here to do something bolder than anything you'll find on the horror shelf these days so on that count I applaud. Chilling as the title implies, but with a sensitivity and desire to immerse the viewer in illusion rather than merely jolt. I like the effort.A boy goes with his mother to the movies on a sunny afternoon, entering the place of illusion. They watch a grisly horror movie his dad told him not to. They come out on the other end ('in one ear and out the window') to be whisked to a remote house where real horror now is going to take place. The place is marvelously Lynch-esque, a bland suburban one-story house in the middle of flat fields that drown the screams.This is all inside the mind where the horrific impulse first grows. The erosion of self as being chained to a wall and having to serve a surrogate father who thinks people are merely pieces to rearrange. The familiarity chills, how inside the horror the boy must still have a life, so that an offering of a candybar that he can eat in front of the TV challenges our own grip next to the boy's.And then shift again to real life so that when captor and victim go out for their first spree together, the real night they and we encounter hums with all that was lost for the boy and all that still awaits, a teenager who could be doing teen stuff that night. (can he still? is it too late for that life?)Some potent stuff here. But there's a last minute twist that completely ruins it. Lynch simply isn't her father. The twist makes perfect symbolic sense if you go back to the start, it's planted to be that way and deliberately sustained by the author; a father who hides something horrible from the child. But it makes no sense as life. This is what Lynch Sr. has been working towards his whole career, more and more fluid slips to and from illusion, because it's all the same desiring mind whether awake or not. Here Jennifer yanks us by the arm. It's still more imaginative than most horror these days so you might wanna stop by one day.