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  Review by Dyrnott ★★★★

  So intense, so twisted and so disturbing! I saw this about 8 years ago and I even forgot the ending. Very well acted! It is a hard movie to watch! Not for everyone! You must like disturbing movies even to get through it. A movie that will leave you with a bad feeling! If this sounds ok to you maybe you can watch it! It’s like watching a nightmare! More mental than anything!

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  Review by 𝙺𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚎 🐞 ★★★½ 2

  Vincent D'Onofrio is exceptionally great at playing mentally unstable, villainous creeps.

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  Review by Blair Bitch 🔪 ★★★★ 1

  ♡ Women make horror and they're killing it. All I can say ♡

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  Review by Ryster ★★★½

  Here's the thing with Chained, it's a dark, very disturbing and sickly depressing film from Jennifer Lynch (David Lynch's daughter). I wasn't planning on watching this and when it started I was planning on switching it off. I had heard mixed reviews, lots of people loving it, many hating it and I didn't know what to expect. Well, I was surprised. Not only did I find it very thrilling but I thought it was very well made. I hadn't heard of Chained before I saw it listed on TV. I searched it up and it's not had a very wide release. I think this is a shame as I think it deserves an audience. This is listed as a horror…

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  Review by OliviaDay ★★★½

  Imma take the bus, thank you

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  Review by Mr. DuLac ★★★½

  There's only one real way out for you, to prove to me that I can trust you. There's only one way to do that.
  -Bob

  David Lynch's kid is at it again, this time with a tale about a serial killer raising the kidnapped child of one of his victims. I'm trying to imagine what kind of bedtime stories David Lynch told his kids at night or did he just let them watch Eraserhead.

  I've only seen a couple of films from Jennifer Lynch, but from what I've seen she has no intention of trying to emulate her father even though she clearly has a taste for... well... fucked up shit. Here the premise is beyond creepy already, but she…

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  Review by Kevin Wight ★★½

  Chained has a similar premise to a nasty and cheap film called Bereavement that came out a few years back. A serial killer 'adopts' a young child and raises them to be their protege. Jennifer Chambers Lynch's effort is much more assured than Bereavement and she does well in maintaining a bleak tone.

  Lynch is more concerned with the atmosphere of the piece rather than swamping the screen with gore. There are bloody moments for sure, particularly towards the end, but it is fairly admirably restrained and works more as a character study of the vile Ben (Vincent D'Onofrio) and the traumatised Tim (Eamon Farron), rechristened Rabbit by his captor/ mentor.

  For all its aesthetic qualities, Chained still failed to really hold my attention despite a twist that comes out of left field. It's a bold bit of plotting, but I wasn't invested enough by that point to be anything other than mildly impressed.

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  Review by Heather Santrous ★★★★

  I think I caught wind of this movie from a "best horror movies streaming" video. It is no longer streaming, except on Tubi, but I ended up watching it on Blu. The story has to do with a boy who goes to a movie with his mother. His dad wants them to take a cab home, instead of the bus, and there just happens to be one close by when they get out of the movie. The driver doesn't take them home but takes them out to his house where he ends up murdering the boy's mom and then sets some rules for the boy. The boy grows up eventually and the man now has to decide what to do…

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  Review by Cusack ★★½ 2

  Probably deserving of a 3/5 but it just had a few too many flaws for me. Its an ok serial killer movie. Vincent D’Onfronio is good but everyone else I found to be sort of subpar. The twist at the end was dumb. Its a good twist but I just personally didn’t care for it.

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  Review by haley ★★★½ 1

  my second time viewing and i'm still shocked by how little i have heard others mention this movie

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  Review by Julian ★★★½

  --English Version below--

  2012

  HORRORx52: 2023
  №.04/52
  #52: HIDDEN GEM. A horror film with less than 35k views on letterboxd.

  Nicht nur ist der Film ein Hidden Gem, sondern auch noch von David Lynchs Tochter!
  Jennifer Chambers Lynch Film Chained klingt durchaus vielversprechend, außerdem wollte ich Vincent D´Onofrio sehr gerne mal in einer anderen Rolle sehen, da ich ihn eigentlich bis jetzt nur aus den Marvel Serien kannte.
  Irgendwie hatte ich aber dennoch nicht die höchsten Erwartungen.
  Die Prämisse ist leicht erklärt und macht wirklich aus den überschaubaren Schauplätzen und Möglichkeiten einen sehr effektiven Horror-Thriller, wobei der Horror nicht durch Jump Scares oder horrortypischen Dingen hervorgerufen wird.

  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!
  Ich hab mich…

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  Review by Rich Trash🗑️ ★★★½

  There are two ways you can look at this movie. One way, the more positive and unlikely of the two, Bob (D’Onofrio) takes in Tim after his mother dies. Bob nicknames the boy Rabbit and he raised him. Once Rabbit is of age Bob teaches Rabbit his craft. If you were to subscribe to this outlook Chained is a heartwarming and emotional tale of loss and growing up with the odds stacked against young Rabbit. 

  Now if you were to look at this film the obvious way, Bob kills Tim’s mother then enslaves Tim. While Tim is enslaved he is chained to the wall and has to clean up after Bob. During Tim’s enslavement he is a witness and accessory…