4.9
A prison bus with over a dozen criminals on board has an accident and rams another car, in which Dr. Douglas Madsen was on his way home. Most of the prisoners die. Four of them survive, one of them severely injured. After having killed all the guards, they head for the woods. They take Dr. Douglas Madsen hostage. Suddenly a huge house appears in the middle of the woods. The leader of the group, Arthur, emphasizes that he will kill Douglas and every single member of the "family" if his wounded brother would die. Meanwhile some members of the family show strange behavior, and very soon mayhem breaks loose.
Christopher Kriesa
Douglas Madsen
Martina Ittenbach
Alice
Simon Newby
Arthur Palmer
Luca Maric
Spence Palmer
Mehmet Yilmaz
Vincenzo Tomassi
Jaymes Butler
Stephen Nix
Dan van Husen
Paul Anderson
Jürgen Prochnow
Police Man
Daryl Jackson
Jimmy
James Matthews-Pyecka
Shawn
Klaus Münster
Joseph
Gerhard Jilka
Phillip
Harald Pucher
Wallace
Lisa Sachsenweger
Karen
Gunter Bender
Ron
Christian Scholz
Matthew
Marion Grundies
Maria
Thomas Reitmair
Police Officer 2
Oskar Bender
Douglas as Child
Daniela Sachsenweger
Martha Madsen
Rainer Metz
Paul Madsen / SWAT Guy 4
Jeff Motherhead
Cop - with BE Radio Receiver
Chris Schmidlin
Cop - Headshot
Cyrill Geffcken
Cop - Shootout
Tom Littich
Bus Driver
Ala Freyberg
Young Woman - in the Red Car
Harald Schuster
Cop - Killed with a Fire Extinguisher
Salvatore Pascale
Cop - Stabbed in the Neck
Barrett Jones
Cop - Killed with a Spanner
Oliver Bartusch
Cop - Killed with Handcuffs
Jackie
White Dog
Erik Lucas
Wounded Cop on the Ground
Olaf Ittenbach
Prisoner
Juergen Goettle
SWAT Guy
Martin Weiß
SWAT Guy 2
Gottfried Mach
SWAT Guy 3
Baerlie
SWAT Dog
Zach Weisman
Extra
Dominik Lienhard
Extra
Yazid Benfeghoul
Extra
Christoph Klein
Extra
Volker Schiller
Extra
Christian Lohmer
Extra
Leo Pachmann
Extra
Markus Binder
Extra
Director, Writer
Olaf Ittenbach
February 14, 2017
4
Some movies are hard to enjoy, no matter how much we try to overlook the flaws. I simply couldn't concentrate on the dialogues, which is already a big shame, considering that we're in the 21st century and movies in this day and age are not silent anymore. I know most of the cast members were German and they were speaking in a foreign language, but frankly, I don't think that is the audience's fault. So why should we pay for the consequences and put up with these extremely irritating thick accents?, I'll never know. American actor Christopher Kriesa, performing Dr. Douglas Madsen, was perhaps the only decent or at least mildly tolerable character. The others were simply pitiful, especially because of that fictional and laughable form of an antique English dialect, spoken by this group of weirdos who live in a cottage in the middle of the woods. Perhaps this so-called ancient form of English was just a way to cover the fact that the actors weren't English speakers, but the results turn out to be pretty bad anyway. Concerning the plot, I don't know if it is too weak or not, maybe it is, but that is not nearly as blameworthy as the fact that the same story happens twice. Hard to believe as it is, it's real. The exact same story occurs twice in each half of the movie, only with different characters, except for Dr. Douglas Madsen who appears both times. It seems like the writers were desperately trying to fill one hour and a half and they run out of ideas when they finished the first half of the script. It's somewhat hilarious, come to think of it. It's like watching a new horror movie and then the quick remake or something of that sort.
I hate being harsh with my reviews, because regardless of how much I can like or dislike a film, there's always a noble effort coming from a director, the cast members and everyone involved in a movie. Perhaps "Chain Reaction" can be appreciated for its little things like the unpretentious moments of plain gore that avoid the cheap CGI for latex and Korn Flakes. Frankly, I didn't enjoy the movie very much, but I'm sure gore worshipers are going to find it bearable on the whole.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$1,066,480.00
Revenue:
$0.00