Chain Letter
Six friends receive a mysterious chain letter via text messaging and in their email accounts from a maniac who's hunting down teenagers who fail to forward his online chain letter. Who knew they should take the threats in the chain letter seriously? Or that chain letters using the teens' favorite technologies to track them can kill? This maniacal game pits friend against friend as they race to beat rules that seem impossible to escape. Break the chain, lose a life. Do you pass it on? Does friendship mean anything?
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Plot Summary
A group of teenagers receives a chain letter that warns them that if they don't forward it, they will be killed. As they begin to ignore the ominous warning, a terrifying figure known as 'The Keeper' starts hunting them down, picking them off one by one. The film follows their desperate attempts to survive and understand the motive behind the deadly chain letter.
Critical Reception
Chain Letter was met with overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics, who largely criticized its predictable plot, poor acting, and reliance on gore over substance. Audience reception was similarly lukewarm, with many finding it a derivative and uninspired entry in the horror genre.
What Reviewers Say
- Relies too heavily on gratuitous gore and predictable jump scares.
- The plot is derivative and fails to offer any fresh take on the killer-stalking-teens trope.
- Performances are generally weak, with little to no character development.
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Fun Fact
The film was shot in and around Los Angeles, California.
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