On the plus side, at least Chained is a marked improvement over Lynch's last big-release film - Boxing Helena, in ! But that's truly damning with faint praise. Although the audience where I saw Chained seemed to really love it, I just saw it as wildly exploitative junk that couldn't even play by its own messy rules - despite compelling performances by its leads. It was almost as if Lynch was trying to sabotage her own screenplay.
Chained is a horrendously directed, clueless bait-and-switch movie that dares you to identify with its leads, either one, despite giving no strong reason for you to do so. Bob Vincent D'Onofrio is a cab driver who picks women up, takes them back to his house in the middle of nowhere and kills them.
He kills the mother, but keeps Rabbit alive to basically be his house slave. I really enjoy films that make me think and Chained is an example of a film that, on the surface, has a rather thin and basic plot. However, the writers here do their best to maximise the potential they're given by not only keeping everything tight and suspenseful, but also in creating a villain who is multi-layered and utterly fascinating.
Although Bob's actions are unclear at the start through flashbacks and conversations with Rabbit it becomes more and more clear what Bob is all about; there are psychological issues relating to his abusive childhood - it's possible that he may have felt that his mother let him down by not protecting him OR because most of the time he saw his father being abusive to his mother that he may have thought that this was the norm and that this is what women are there for - these were my interpretations but I understand that others may see this differently.
Other than excellent character development and an insightful narrative the other thing that really elevates this film is the strong performances from D'Onforio and Farren; As Bob, D'Onforio brings to life a very interesting character, a man who'll you'll want to learn more about and find out what he'll do next. Farren holds his own well in a role where he pretty much gets to the point where he's desensitised to violence, but again like D'Onforio I found myself fascinated by his character and again was interested in seeing how events would unfold between the two characters.
The film also gets points for its impressive cinematography and wonderful direction. As well as all of the above, the script kept me on the edge of my seat by throwing in a few twists and turns at the end. Chained is a film that is dark and at times quite disturbing and therefore it definitely isn't a film for everyone. However I thought that it was a terrific film and is definitely one of the better films that the genre has to offer.
Films about serial killers are not necessarily rubbish provided they are either based closely on real life - like "To Catch A Killer" about John Gacy, or are genuine thrillers. One can add to that black comedy, like "Curdled". Sadly, "Chained" is not a genuine thriller, nor does it contain the slightess trace of comedy.
Although unrealistic to the Nth degree and then some, the names Ariel Castro and Josef Fritzl should dispell the notion that nothing like it could ever happen - there are real monsters out there. Sadly, this is, or was intended to be, a psychological thriller. Almost all the action takes place in one house, and apart from wanton sadism it contains almost nothing.
Its one saving grace, if it can be called that, is the shock ending. For those viewers who can survive that long. This thriller is truly disturbing. It might come as slow, but the dark storyline makes it a good watch. Sadly the last 15 minutes suck. Stupid plot twists and ambiguous ending definitely ruins it. Well, after mother and child got chained in the kidnapper's house, I kept wondering where this was going. It goes nowhere. Bob is a freak that seems to have no consistency in his personality, being an incongruent character that doesn't show anything interesting.
The movie doesn't have a plot; it's simply Bob talking random things to Rabbit. Conversations are all uninteresting and I couldn't care less about what would happen next, given that nothing made any sense. The only good acting came from a girl, around , which was the time I stood still until I gave up on this. In fact, this is one of most boring and uninteresting films I've seen this year, even thought I am usually tolerant with underground horror pictures.
Don't waste your time! Too bad she couldn't leave it at that, and the film takes another turn - one too many. If she had begun that first change earlier, then the other change might have worked out as well. I'm a fan Vincent D'Onofrio in lots of other films and the series 'Criminal intent', and he wasn't bad here, but the voice he does is something he doesn't at all.
Eamon Farren is no acting revelation, which leaves us with the female victims, who do their jobs sufficiently. A small 5 out of It started pretty good. The kid and his mother were kidnapped by a cab driver after they left the cinema.
The killer killed the mother immediately in his house in the middle of nowhere and kept the kid chained to the wall for years until he became a young man. He assigned him tasks like cleaning, getting rid of bodies and keeping a scrapbook of his victims' news.
Then he wanted to somehow educate him on anatomy! The killer wanted him to get laid for the first time and found a young woman for him. He acted like he killed her by stabbing her avoiding vital organs and took her to the basement as a dead body and and said to him that he wanted to be a hunter too. He took him out with the cab and they argued over the fact that he wrote help on the car with blood and he noticed that he didn't kill the girl.
They got back and before she killed her she slit his throat in the basement graveyard. And as he said to him he went to his father's house as he's married again with a son. He acted weird as he saw his son after years and tim said he asked from his older brother who's the killer to get rid of his wife and son.
His new wife what to intervene as they are confronting with each other and he took his shirt because it's a must to take off your shirt if you're a male and want to star in this movie and wanted to assault her but he bludgeoned him and she wanted him to leave and called the police to report that someone broke in killed her husband and Tim went back to the house.
JvH48 16 April I saw this film at the Imagine film festival in Amsterdam. The plot seems mildly interesting at first, about a taxi driver Bob who takes women to his remote house, murders them and buries them in his cellar.
The screaming and blood spraying involved in such activities, have been filmed many times before. This time, however, there is an original twist when he brings home a 9 year old boy Tim along with his mother, kills and buries the latter as usual , but he keeps Tim to clean his house and prepare meals. Of course, Tim tries to escape but he fails and thus gets tied to a long chain, so that he can move through the house and perform his daily chores, among others burying women after Bob slaughters them.
This involuntarily form of cohabitation goes on for some 10 years. We see the young Tim change into an adolescent version. Bob tries to educate him by giving encyclopedia and other text books to read.
Tim remains devoid of any external contacts, unable to leave the house while being retrained by his chain hence the film title. In the meantime, the usual process of collecting and killing women goes on. By means of flashbacks we observe that Bob has a background not only of being mistreated as a child, but was also forced to have sex with his mother.
We don't get all the gory details about his past, but in several dreams we get the picture what sort of things happened in his youth, and apparently deformed his character for life. The story becomes interesting when Bob makes serious attempts to interest Tim for the female body, and to arouse his sexual desires. Bob lets Tim choose from a photo book to find out which type he finds most attractive, then collects one looking like that example, all being a setup in the hopes that Tim and the girl have sex together.
But Tim fails to settle down with her and let nature take its course. He is aware that Bob is watching every move via a camera in that room.
Even worse, Bob interferes some of the time when things are not progressing fast enough. When Bob insists that he should grab the chance to explore the female body, Tim rebuts that he knows that inside and outside from books, obviously missing the point Bob wants to make. Though the girl tries to make the best of the situation and wants to help him a bit, this scene ends with blood since handling a knife is what Tim knows best.
I refrain from revealing how the story continues from this point, if only to prevent spoiling some surprising turns of events. For example, there comes a time when Tim is able to set himself free, and even meets his father who of course did not expect to even see him again after being lost for 10 years. Unexpectedly, this encounter does not lead to a happy family re-union, and there is a reason for that see for yourself.
As a result, Tim is thrown back on his own devices. We suspect but that end is left open that his only choice is to continue Bob's secret operations, and to make a fresh start with "volunteering" a new helper. All in all, the original plot is employed very well. There were absolutely no dull moments, in spite of the constrained setting where most of the action takes place there are very few outdoor scenes. The tension was very well spread over the running time. I consider this a formidable achievement with a cast consisting mainly of Bob and Tim, where all other roles are no more than short appearances.
A few scenes were even hilarious, in spite of the dark circumstances, for instance when they play quartets with the ID cards of the women they killed. I gave the maximum score for the audience award when leaving the theater.
Not all my co-viewers in the festival agree, however, since this film ended on a mediocre 21st place out of 46 on the rating list. Tight story and good cast. Jennifer Lynch's 'Chained' is an unapologetic psychological thriller. Some have billed this as a horror film, however that's not the case. And although it will be in your 'serial killer' film collection, this particular movie has a different quality and lasting psychological effect that will haunt you the next time you decide to take a cab.
We instantly see how cool Tim's mom is by letting him see the horror film instead of the new kids movie. Once the film is over, by the instructions of dad, they are supposed to take a cab home instead of the bus.
They hail a taxi driven by Bob Vincent D'Onofrio , who seems like your typical cab driver. Soon after they get in the car, and a couple of missed turns, Tim and his mother realize that Bob is not really a cab driver, but a serial killer and that bad things are about to happen. Bob drives Tim and his mother to his remote house with no cellular signal. Bob takes Tim's mother into the house and leaves Tim in the car as Bob violently rapes and ultimately kills her.
Bob is confused with what to do with this 9 year old boy, as he only kills women, and decides to keep Tim around to cook and clean. And by clean, I mean clean up the brutal and bloody murders Bob leaves in his house, starting with his own mother. After a couple of failed attempts of escape, Bob chains Tim to the house and leaves him enough lag to get around the home completely.
This made me think of 'Black Snake Moan'. We fast forward a decade into the future and Tim is still chained, but is now a teenager Eamon Farren. From here, we see Bob try and teach Tim how to be a serial killer in a sick and twisted father-son type fashion. Here we see Bob treating Tim more like an heir to throne rather than a prisoner. There is even a very creepy scene where the two play Go-Fish with a deck of victim's licenses. This film differs from the rest of the serial kille films, as it doesn't rely on showing bloody and ultra violent murders, but rather shows a steady paced storyline with intense psychological trauma.
This film was originally titled 'Rabbit', due to what Bob calls Tim, but was later changed to 'Chained'. Lynch did a great job of filming the beautiful outdoor scenery of green pastures and bright yellow colored cab, and then transitioning into a dirty brown and yellow interior for a large chunk of the film.
It's as if we were seeing the surroundings rotting from start to finish. D'Onofrio does an amazing job as Bob. His twisted father-son relationship with Tim is so disturbing, that I wouldn't be surprised if he won some kind of award for his role. Farren and Ormond also turn in great performances. I'm sure this was a difficult film to shoot, considering the subject matter, and they all rose to the occasion.
It's a conversation piece that you will be showing your cinephile friends and talking about over and over again. Even with its strange twist ending, 'Chained' will linger around for days to come. Jennifer Lynch's "Chained" is one of those films I walked away from completely disturbed but also captivated by. I find it hard to even call it a horror film because it doesn't fit in to the definition of the genre.
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A title card tells us it is eight weeks earlier, and we start the story proper as Tim and his mum played by Julia Ormond take a trip to the movies. Dad Brad Jake Weber has told them to get a taxi home; but tragically for Tim, the taxi they get into happens to be driven by a monster.
Pulling off the highway, Bob takes them to his own house and makes short work of Ormond in front of her son. Lynch leaves us with the image of Tim trapped inside the taxi, hysterically smacking the window with his hands as his mother is dragged away through the garage, through a door and out of sight. It is the last time he will ever see her.
Bob lays down the rules. Tim also has to assist in the crimes by cutting out news stories of missing people, store cash from the victims, and keep the driving licences safe. We cut to nine years later. Tim is now almost fully grown up, and a strange uneasy bond has developed between them. This lends the character a chilling believability on the surface.
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