Chained

Uma psicologia muito rigorosa, difícil de digerir, de um assassino em massa e as causas da sua sociopatia. E o seu efeito duradouro sobre o «estudioso» - um jovem sequestrado que tem de viver com ele. Com a sua relação «mentor perverso/aluno sofredor», a diretora leva o retrato interessante do assassino para um nível superior de estudo da perceção e comportamento de dois personagens diametralmente opostos em situações extremas que experimentam juntos, mas cada um de uma forma diferente. E ela consegue surpreender com o argumento. Inconfortável, paralisante, brilhante. (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)