Chained Reviews
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.
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| Original Score: 5/5
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
August 24, 2015
Deserves credit for trying to mine some relatively intelligent chills out of something different, topical, and primally disturbing.
March 25, 2013
Lynch...presents nuanced, sepia-tinged menace with a clear and determined eye.
February 1, 2013
[It] will likely find favour with horror audiences looking for something more thoughtful than another instalment of Saw.
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| Original Score: 3/5
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
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.
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
January 28, 2013
A grimmer-than-grim tale of murder, incarceration and mayhem.
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| Original Score: 3/5
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.
January 18, 2013
It certainly makes for a traumatic watch.
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| Original Score: 3/5
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
August 30, 2012
Chained is confronting cinema like we rarely see, even with its share of hiccups.
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| Original Score: 3/5