Chain Letter

Chain Letter

If you don't forward it, you die.

Directed by Deon Taylor

Produced by Tiger Tail Entertainment, Deon Taylor Enterprises

201096 min4.4 / 10

A paranoia-driven slasher that weaponizes digital communication to pit friends against each other in a deadly game of forced complicity.

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?

Questions people ask

  • Is Chain Letter scary? Yes, very. More frightening than 95% of films.

  • Is Chain Letter easy watching? No. Less comforting than 92% of films.

  • Is Chain Letter violent? Yes. More violent than 85% of films.

  • Does Chain Letter end with hope? Barely. Less hopeful than 83% of films.

  • Is Chain Letter sad? Not especially. Less sad than 73% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

6/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity13

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise5

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love4

How much audiences actually like it

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Ensemble

Like Chain Letter

Nearest across the full emotional profile.

Same Mood as Chain Letter

Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

Like Chain Letter, But Darker

Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

Like Chain Letter, But Lighter

Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like Chain Letter, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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