Chained Reviews

C.H. Newell
Father Son Holy Gore
May 6, 2019
D'Onofrio and Farren are a powerful pair. An excellent, devilish twist which comes late in the game, changing everything, proving Jennifer Lynch is as twisted as her father.
Full Review | Original Score: 5/5
Craig Williams
CineVue
February 9, 2019
It's more successful in concept than execution perhaps, but the film's pessimistic view of humanity and genre-bending philosophical foundations keep it interesting.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Scott Weinberg
TheHorrorShow
August 24, 2015
Deserves credit for trying to mine some relatively intelligent chills out of something different, topical, and primally disturbing.
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Simon Foster
sbs.com.au
March 25, 2013
Lynch...presents nuanced, sepia-tinged menace with a clear and determined eye.
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Damon Wise
Radio Times
February 1, 2013
[It] will likely find favour with horror audiences looking for something more thoughtful than another instalment of Saw.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Rich Cline
Contactmusic.com
February 1, 2013
Filmmaker Lynch (daughter of David) knows how to push our buttons, using misogynist violence to keep us uncomfortable right through this contained, stylish thriller.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Anton Bitel
Film4
February 1, 2013
In this claustrophobic cabbie horror, Jennifer Lynch makes us captive passengers as she traces a chain of domestic abuse to its bitter Oedipal end.
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Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
January 31, 2013
Impressively directed and superbly written, this is a chilling, thought-provoking horror movie with a pair of terrific performances by Vincent D'Onofrio and newcomer Eamon Farren.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
James Mottram
The List
January 28, 2013
A grimmer-than-grim tale of murder, incarceration and mayhem.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher
January 28, 2013
Not for the faint of heart or the weak of spirit, and probably not even for fans of more traditional horror films... this is a grenade lobbed into a genre that desperately needs its bones rattled.
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Matt Glasby
Total Film
January 18, 2013
It certainly makes for a traumatic watch.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Anton Bitel
Projected Figures
August 31, 2012
Lynch's brutal 'buddy pic' takes some very dark turns, culminating in a walloping twist of a coda. Whether that twist is actually necessary or relevant - and I'm still undecided - this is a bleakly claustrophobic film about the ties that bind
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Shaun Munro
What Culture
August 30, 2012
Chained is confronting cinema like we rarely see, even with its share of hiccups.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5