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Chain Letter

Play trailer Poster for Chain Letter R,  2010,  1h 27m,  Horror/ Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 29% 14 Reviews Tomatometer 45% 2,500+ Ratings Popcornmeter
29% Tomatometer 14 Reviews 45% Popcornmeter 2,500+ Ratings
Six high-school students are warned they will meet with particularly nasty deaths if they fail to forward a chain e-mail.

Critics Reviews

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Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter Oct 5, 2010
By-the-numbers horror flick is about as welcome, and entertaining, as a real chain letter. Go to Full Review
Diego Semerene Slant Magazine Oct 3, 2010
1.5/4
Nothing screams hackneyed repurposing like using a Nietzschean citation as preface to very non-Nietzschean drivel. Go to Full Review
Dennis Harvey Variety Oct 2, 2010
Chain Letter yields few surprises, compensating with de rigueur false scares, unmemorable deaths and the kind of improbably exaggerated gore. Go to Full Review
Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh Sep 9, 2025
1/5
No one has ever actually been scared of chain letters and this movie ensured no one ever will be. Go to Full Review
Mark H. Harris Black Horror Movies Jan 9, 2020
2.7/5
Sure, it's an increasingly silly, nonsensical film... but with plentiful gore and brutal kills, Chain Letter is no less entertaining than a movie like See No Evil. Go to Full Review
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Jun 16, 2012
.5/4
...one of the most disastrously underwhelming and incompetent horror flicks to come around in quite some time... Go to Full Review
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Harry G Jun 5, 2018 As a result of college peers refusing to send in a chain letter through cell and by Iphone, resorts to a series of unexplained grisly murders leading to a conclusion how they were later selected in the first place. See more
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Cast & Crew

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Deon Taylor

Director

Nikki Reed

Jessie Campbell

Keith David

Det. Jim Crenshaw

Brad Dourif

Mr. Smirker

Bai Ling

Jai Pham

Betsy Russell

Sergeant Hamill

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Chain Letter

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Movie Info

Synopsis Six high-school students are warned they will meet with particularly nasty deaths if they fail to forward a chain e-mail.
Director
Deon Taylor
Producer
Michael J. Pagan
Screenwriter
Diana Erwin, Michael J. Pagan, Deon Taylor
Distributor
New Films International
Production Co
Deon Taylor Enterprises
Rating
R (Strong Bloody Sadistic Violenc|Language|Brief Nudity)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 1, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 1, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA)
$143.0K
Runtime
1h 27m
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