Chained

Una psicología muy descarnada y difícil de digerir de un asesino de masas y las causas de su sociopatía. Y su efecto duradero en el «discípulo», un joven cautivo que tiene que vivir con él. Con su relación «mentor corrupto / discípulo sufriente», el director lleva el retrato gratificante del público de un asesino a un nivel superior de estudio de la percepción y el comportamiento de dos personajes diametralmente opuestos en situaciones extremas, que viven juntos, cada uno de forma diferente. Y con ello también puede sorprender con su guión. Desagradable, paralizante, brillante. (24.09.2021)

One of them can’t be understood and the other looks like Robert Pattinson after a botched plastic surgery, great, really. Seriously, though, I would be very forgiving towards this well made exploitation film if it didn’t take itself so incredibly serious, especially since in several places it’s almost ridiculous. Lynch’s daughter tries to build an oppressive atmosphere around the boy’s hopeless situation (which works for the first few minutes), focusing on the psychological aspect of a kidnapper and his slave, but unfortunately, she’s unable to pull it off because she resorts to the most schematic methods and scriptwriting tricks conceivable, the sort that even authors of direct to DVD cheap horror trash would be ashamed of. This is in fact unacknowledged trash, just like every other film of this, the most boring and least interesting horror sub-genre (save a few honourable exceptions). And it’s that “unacknowledging” what bothers me the most. It’s really nothing special, not even in terms of inhumanity, perversion or violence. (27.09.2012)