Who would guess a movie about chain letters would be completely stupid and pointless!? WHAT A SHOCK! phelous.com / phelous Originally Released: February 9, 2011
I'm still waiting for the planned sequel called 'Fan Letter,' where the killer sends a bunch of fan mail to minor celebrities, and if they don't respond, he kills them with an electric fan. It's gonna be *fan*tastic!
Andy Ace "Oh no, I hear a mountain lion!" I watched Birdemic and still couldn't remember if that mountain lion was really there. It wasn't until watching the Julie and Jack crossover with Lupa that I realized it wasn't and that was only because Phelous asked her directly why she didn't show the mountain lion in her review.
kinnikufan And I thought for a moment that the "saw voice" was apart of the movie he was reviewing. And there have been many more instances like that. Like the mountain lion ;-)
"I have a social life! There are people counting on me!" Counting on what? Posting your lunch? This guy has probably more people counting on him being online than she has.
Honestly the womans death in the beginning could have been easily avoided. Once the wife noticed she could have continued to drive keeping pace with her husband and get his attention. Then when she got his attention they could have slowed down at a steady pace. She would of course be very injured from the experiance (plus the head wound she gave herself) but shed still be alive.
Honestly, I'm just questioning how those two blockheada didn't end up dying in any car accidents, before the events of the film took place, if they're really that dense.
Hey Phelous, I think this movie is way smarter than you think. Didn't you notice how the killer was sending CHAIN letters, and then killing people with CHAINS? Isn't that clever?
All I could think of in that opening kill part was "follow after him, honking and flashing your lights until he pulls over." She would have been injured from getting dragged, sure, but she'd be alive.
Then again, if they're that dense and utterly gormless about what's going on, I'm surprised they didn't straight up kill themselves in any car accidents, befors the film's events took place.
This felt like the horror movie equivalent of one of those "counterculture" anti-technology illustrations hipsters do. "Technology is evil brah!" "Why?" "Because it is!" "Wait a minute, aren't you using technology to spread your art?" "Sh-shut up you sheeple!" Also I'm surprised Phelous didn't comment about how the ending didn't resolve the film and we never really knew if the killers got caught at the end.
no no no, it should be a heartwarming drama about the struggle of a young innocent nigerian prince trying to save the kingdom's money... IN A WORLD.... WHERE NOONE BELIEVED HIM...
Admittedly, some of the chain-based deaths in this movie are pretty creative and well done... Shame they had to be in a movie that literally makes no sense.
That's the sad thing: this movie didn't have to be bad. The idea of a killer who uses chain letters to hunt down their victims isn't bad (though admittedly dated even in 2010), and the chain-based deaths were an interesting concept, rather Jigsaw-like honestly. But the fact that the killers hate technology when they're using technology to kill people for not using technology, especially when CHAIN LETTERS COULD EASILY BE SENT IN THE MAIL, makes the movie a confusing mess. Hell, even the technology-hating cult that targets teenagers was an interesting idea. That's three good ideas, none of which actually amounted to anything.
Wait a minute, this curse has been around for 200 years? HOW DID HE SEND E-MAILS?! Or did he just write actual letters and mail them? Plus 200 years ago, mail would arrive like 6 months late so how did he know when they arrive at the target? Does this curse allow you to know when letters arrive? Can you feed the curse after midnight?
Also, wouldn't this curse eventually kill everyone on Earth? Someone, somewhere, would forget to spread it. Or if you spread it, would you be immune? What happens if you spread it to an e_
The scenes with Keith David makes me wish there was a movie or even a series where he plays a no nonsense but deep down sympathetic detective solving some terrible crimes. In my opinion he is one of the most charismatic male actors in the world, and he has that awesome voice. Someone please make him a lead hero!
You spent your whole life blocking spam mail, well now the spam is going to block you! Aaahh death by mystery meat, the most humiliating death of all!!
You spent your life reviewing toys, movies, or TV shows. Now I'm reviewing you. You, uhm, are one of my favorite youtubers, Phelous. Wait, that doesn't sound scary at all! Who wrote this?
So I'm listening to these reviews while working and all the sudden it hits me. Keith David is in this movie. The voice of Goliath from Disney's Gargoyles. Every time he spoke, I had to pause work trying to figure out where I'd heard that voice before. I can now not un-see Detective Goliath tracking down the chain letter murderer, LOL.
Guy from 6 years later here. Keith David being here isn't a surprise because he's done a fair bit of adult-oriented stuff, such as playing roles in John Carpenter's The Thing and They Live and voicing Spawn in the HBO adult animated series. Him being in a shit horror film isn't so surprising.
So the sister uses the internet through her brothers computer in his room? either her parents hate her or he has more money than anyone in that house and not only bought a computer but set up the net as well.
I'm legitimately impressed you found your comedic voice so early. I can watch almost any of your reviews, and while I think you've gotten FUNNIER and more professional over the years (it'd be pretty sad if you hadn't), unlike a lot of online reviewers, your early stuff remains very watchable.
You know about that class scene with the kids messing with their phones, that was pretty close what my class had when I was back in school, and literally no consequences were in effect, it was disturbing to watch how year by year some of the people in my class morphed into phone staring jerks who kept being a distraction during class.
I think the funniest part about it, they became better at coding and other shit than the kids they were stalking. Not only do they hate tech but they're geniuses at it. Wasted talent, man.
Why does Keith David keep appearing in shitty movies? He's a good actor who can get into all kinds of high profile stuff but he just occasionally picks complete shit for some reason. What the hell? XD
9:34 Determining whether or not the killer brought their own murder weapon is actually considered an important detail in a murder case, because it shows that it was premeditated, and not a spur of the moment thing.
Brad Dourif's big name roles are rarer than his b-grade ones. Don't get me wrong, he's a decent actor, but he's better known for his camp (like Child's Play) than his highbrow stuff (like Wormtongue). And even his highbrow stuff is pretty camp.
We hate technology so much that we force people into a situation so that if they don't use technology we'll KILL them! Keith David was so close to being the only reasonable character in this movie. Greatest horror movie organization of all time; anti-technology master hackers.
"Aha a teacher giving technology based lectures doesn't know youtube's name". I WISH that was an inaccurate part of the movie but alas it is all too common in Highschool as teachers quite to often know nothing about the subjects they teach. I even seen this happen in college. So you went to much better highschools then I did where our programming teacher knew nothing about programming.
It's like people don't know that you can choose to keep your information private if you want to. Also, I honestly can't hear Keith David's voice without thinking about Saints Row.
+Heidi Fedor Brad was also in Lord of the Rings, and of course he played Chucky. I wonder how this movie managed to get him... likely he needed the money.
Some people are pointing out that determining whether the chains were at the scene or taken from somewhere else can help determine whether or not the crime was premeditated. Fair. But that has nothing to do with tracking down the chains manufacturer. Geez
Odd thing is, when I was real small I remember being told if you do not hand write every word exactly of the chain letter and send it to exactly 10 people and not every one of them did the same that you would die. So when I did get my first chain letter, I cried for 2 days straight out of fear bc handwriting is my downfall. But I got those 10 letters written and sent... and then I found out that all but one of those people threw them out so naturally I probably had my first ever panic attack and blacked out for a few months until I realized that I was still alive and not going to die. I was between 5-7 and this was before email was a thing I even knew of. Enjoy my run-on sentences.. so sorry about that.
The teachers better have been completely naked and miming out the lessons in the air, otherwise their message is hypocritical. I always hate the idea of technology is evil when almost everything we use in the last 300 years was made with technology.
I kind of want to see a film where someone ignores a chain comment that says that if they ignore it, a kid who was murdered will show up and kill them. The kid shows up, but they talk them out of killing them and end up kind of adopting them.
I'm pretty sure the human body would offer _far_ more resistance to being torn apart than that. Seriously, Play-Dough would have taken longer to pull apart than that chick.
Hi, Phelous, You've become one of my go-to people for being cheered up, and that's more important than you can ever imagine (I hope, for your sake). Not only do you save me and my friends from bad movies, you make us smile. Thanks to you and your friends for working so hard on these. And thanks for making me aware that it's been ... maybe a decade since I received a chain email. I always wrote back to the sender, saying that I wasn't about to mess with others by passing along the chain. Maybe someone has been looking out for me, and God isn't just a total bus (See Victoria, BC, Canada comedy improv group, Loading Ready Run, who use "bus" in place of not-so-family-friendly words, during their annual November charity marathon online, for Child's Play. They would probably enjoy having you Skype in for an interview, to pass time and raise donations.)
9:26 is that Keith David? Sounds like it. Edit: the guy who voices Julius Little from Saints Row, and himself, from Saints Row 4. And Admiral Anderson From Mass Effect. Edit 2: yup, it's him. Poor guy.
Phelan Porteous Yeah, I actually saw the film and I have to say the reason the girl commit suicide was really dumb...I'm always comparing it to the game Life Is Strange
I've got that Technology is Evil class. At least it's an easy class since it's just "Listen to a paranoid man ramble about the interwebs for a few minutes".
Phelous a lot of killers actually use weapons they find at the crime scene, the fact that he brought his own actually shows that he's organized which the police can use in his profile to narrow down the search for the suspect. I'm not trying to be an ass just trying to inform you lol ;)
Dr. Pepper actually, he's kinda right. There are many cases of a killer using a weapon they found in the house to kill its owner. With the murder weapon also being owned by the victim(s) it delays the police for a (mildly to extremely) short time. Etc: the Axemen of Louisiana: it was usually noted the murder weapon was determined to be a missing axe from the owners shed.
While I love technology I am glad that I finished high school before smart phones were invented. Would have annoyed the hell out of me with everyone around me texting while I was trying to study. Also...Keith really? You were in Gargoyles and The Thing man!!! Why did you agree to be in this shit!!!!!??
It was a lazy cash in on gore torture porn movies and it clearly shows in its style, it was done clearly to make people think it was saw but even cheaper
It's stupid because real chain letters usually have some kind of scary storyline and there is some reason you're supposed to pass it on to protect yourself, but instead of doing that, this movie just goes straight to the "pass on or die." It might actually have been interesting if they'd put more thought into the letter itself. It's not like there's not enough real horror chain letters out there to get ideas from.
Hahaha any innovation is technology. A pitchfork and language are technology because they further objectives and make producing goods easier. Or is it the electronical technology only?
5:14 I swear the sound used for the you've received chain mail reminds me of the sound playing during the morphing sequence from Uchu Sentai Kyuranger.
I haven't watched the whole video yet, but I'm guessing the "burhur technology is evil, fire is scary and Thomas Edison was a witch" professor is the killer.
Rewatching this in 2019, and it reminded me that there's a mivie coming about soon about a killer phobe app. Please tell me you plan on reviewing that...
"ALSO STAY TUNED FOR THE WEATHER ON 96.8!!!!!!" X'D Yeah, that caller was way too cheery. And I cracked up laughing at the guy calling out to Jessie who looks like a packaged piece of lamb chops being dragged on the road.
Why do idiot cops in horror movies always go and "investigate" these creepy layers without back up? They don't even have a partner with them. Also that chained to the cars trap was kind of stupid. Like what if the parents weren't completely oblivious morons and either saw the chains coming from their cars or felt/heard them moving as they started to drive off? It also depended on both parents flooring it right out of the driveway which is also dumb.
19:03-19:06 Am I the only one that thinks that the geeky WoW-ish guy, particularly in this scene, kind of sounds like Abu from Disney's Aladdin all sped up like that? XD
lucky for the opening scene they both park their cars in front of the garage, instead of, you know, in the garage. and that they both drive away side by side at the same time like racecars or something wtf? who does that?
I'm still waiting for the planned sequel called 'Fan Letter,' where the killer sends a bunch of fan mail to minor celebrities, and if they don't respond, he kills them with an electric fan.
It's gonna be *fan*tastic!
ha!
I could imagine the company The Asylum jumping all over that one! ;)
Good one
I would actually watch that sequel. Bad horror movies are my guilty pleasure
:3
This remake of The Fan sounds interesting.
I like Phelus the most when he edits in such a way as I am unsure what is and what isnt in the movie.
Andy Ace "Oh no, I hear a mountain lion!" I watched Birdemic and still couldn't remember if that mountain lion was really there. It wasn't until watching the Julie and Jack crossover with Lupa that I realized it wasn't and that was only because Phelous asked her directly why she didn't show the mountain lion in her review.
kinnikufan
And I thought for a moment that the "saw voice" was apart of the movie he was reviewing. And there have been many more instances like that. Like the mountain lion ;-)
i love how he repeated the animation in golden films and it seems like its part of the original film xD
@@kinnikufan I actually thought the mountain lion was there, you may laugh but really would it have been out of place in the actual movie?
+Andy Ace
Me too!
"I have a social life! There are people counting on me!"
Counting on what? Posting your lunch? This guy has probably more people counting on him being online than she has.
as an ffxiv player finding substitutes to run the coils of bahamut is a hassle after you spend a week or two in the group organizing everyone's roles.
On a video game in a make-believe world (which I do enjoy though)
"You spent your whole life not chained up to cars" is probably my favorite line from any Phelous thing ever.
It is a good quote
I’ll leave a watermark so we can enjoy it in perpetuity 2:00.
Honestly the womans death in the beginning could have been easily avoided. Once the wife noticed she could have continued to drive keeping pace with her husband and get his attention. Then when she got his attention they could have slowed down at a steady pace. She would of course be very injured from the experiance (plus the head wound she gave herself) but shed still be alive.
The movie's bad either way.
@@konstance13 To quote somebody who replied to a similar comment, "It relies on everyone being stupid so I don't think that could have happened."
but then it wouldn't work with the rest of the movie because then two characters wouldn't be idiots.
Honestly, I'm just questioning how those two blockheada didn't end up dying in any car accidents, before the events of the film took place, if they're really that dense.
That would have been a great ending to just totally undo this "ultimate murder" by having just one person be mildly competent
Hey Phelous, I think this movie is way smarter than you think. Didn't you notice how the killer was sending CHAIN letters, and then killing people with CHAINS? Isn't that clever?
Oh shit that's clever!
It's not.
phil bettinger You should know that the internet is fueled by irony and sarcasm.
Rhodri Mawr But I was being sarcastic it's just fucking perfect.
phil bettinger It is the best film ever made.
All I could think of in that opening kill part was "follow after him, honking and flashing your lights until he pulls over." She would have been injured from getting dragged, sure, but she'd be alive.
I thought the exact same thing, wow.
PiranhaCupcake It relies on everyone being stupid so I don't think that could have happened.
Then again, if they're that dense and utterly gormless about what's going on, I'm surprised they didn't straight up kill themselves in any car accidents, befors the film's events took place.
This felt like the horror movie equivalent of one of those "counterculture" anti-technology illustrations hipsters do. "Technology is evil brah!" "Why?" "Because it is!" "Wait a minute, aren't you using technology to spread your art?" "Sh-shut up you sheeple!" Also I'm surprised Phelous didn't comment about how the ending didn't resolve the film and we never really knew if the killers got caught at the end.
SundaysEnd I never understood those types of people. So anti-technology yet they use it all the same.
@@AmaryInkawult They're called hypocrites. Been around forever.
@@PokemonHaloFan
We're an unusual species. :p
And I'm still waiting for a horror movie based on the Nigerian prince spam email....
Man, that really needs to happen.
From the producers of 'Candyman 3: Farewell to the Flesh' and 'FearDotCom'
YES! YES YES YEEEEEEEEEEEES! SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE THIS! IT WOULD BE GLORIOUS!
Oh, I'd watch that.
no no no, it should be a heartwarming drama about the struggle of a young innocent nigerian prince trying to save the kingdom's money... IN A WORLD.... WHERE NOONE BELIEVED HIM...
Admittedly, some of the chain-based deaths in this movie are pretty creative and well done... Shame they had to be in a movie that literally makes no sense.
That's the sad thing: this movie didn't have to be bad. The idea of a killer who uses chain letters to hunt down their victims isn't bad (though admittedly dated even in 2010), and the chain-based deaths were an interesting concept, rather Jigsaw-like honestly.
But the fact that the killers hate technology when they're using technology to kill people for not using technology, especially when CHAIN LETTERS COULD EASILY BE SENT IN THE MAIL, makes the movie a confusing mess. Hell, even the technology-hating cult that targets teenagers was an interesting idea. That's three good ideas, none of which actually amounted to anything.
Wait a minute, this curse has been around for 200 years? HOW DID HE SEND E-MAILS?! Or did he just write actual letters and mail them? Plus 200 years ago, mail would arrive like 6 months late so how did he know when they arrive at the target? Does this curse allow you to know when letters arrive? Can you feed the curse after midnight?
What happens when you get the curse wet?!
Or expose it to certain light frequencies?
Also, wouldn't this curse eventually kill everyone on Earth? Someone, somewhere, would forget to spread it. Or if you spread it, would you be immune? What happens if you spread it to an e_
Sorry, pushed the wrong button. What if you spread it to an e-mail address that doesn't exist? What happens then?
He has a teleporting device because (my brain has exploded at this point)
The scenes with Keith David makes me wish there was a movie or even a series where he plays a no nonsense but deep down sympathetic detective solving some terrible crimes. In my opinion he is one of the most charismatic male actors in the world, and he has that awesome voice. Someone please make him a lead hero!
Well he was the lead in both Spawn and Gargoyles. You could watch those
@@seanmatyas3938
You spent your whole life blocking spam mail, well now the spam is going to block you! Aaahh death by mystery meat, the most humiliating death of all!!
You spent your life reviewing toys, movies, or TV shows. Now I'm reviewing you. You, uhm, are one of my favorite youtubers, Phelous.
Wait, that doesn't sound scary at all! Who wrote this?
@@andreasnickmann370 HOFFMAN!
So I'm listening to these reviews while working and all the sudden it hits me. Keith David is in this movie. The voice of Goliath from Disney's Gargoyles. Every time he spoke, I had to pause work trying to figure out where I'd heard that voice before. I can now not un-see Detective Goliath tracking down the chain letter murderer, LOL.
this whole killing streak does make more sense from the angle of it being a Xanatos plot, given no matter what it just goes back to "they die, I win."
That would make a much better movie than this.
Guy from 6 years later here. Keith David being here isn't a surprise because he's done a fair bit of adult-oriented stuff, such as playing roles in John Carpenter's The Thing and They Live and voicing Spawn in the HBO adult animated series.
Him being in a shit horror film isn't so surprising.
So the sister uses the internet through her brothers computer in his room? either her parents hate her or he has more money than anyone in that house and not only bought a computer but set up the net as well.
“Mom said it’s my turn to forward chain letters”
Probably a dial up house
I'm legitimately impressed you found your comedic voice so early. I can watch almost any of your reviews, and while I think you've gotten FUNNIER and more professional over the years (it'd be pretty sad if you hadn't), unlike a lot of online reviewers, your early stuff remains very watchable.
Agree
@ 4:00 it's illegal to use cellphone jammers. And he's doing it in the middle of class. This teacher is so fired.
Yep 😄
You know about that class scene with the kids messing with their phones, that was pretty close what my class had when I was back in school, and literally no consequences were in effect, it was disturbing to watch how year by year some of the people in my class morphed into phone staring jerks who kept being a distraction during class.
That would've been a better horror movie than this one.
You know for a movie made in 2010 it feels like it could've come out in 2005.
More like 2000, lol.
More like 1995
@@megatron6713
That's why this movie's story feels like it was written a decade earlier.
They sure downgraded the movie quality just like the other shitty movies before this
People who hate modern day technology take time to learn how to hack modern day technology..........
there is... logic... in what they do...
They learned coding out of spite
in a movie called chain letter. chain letters were around before the internet...
ken131 So gossip. In essence "cyber gossip is bad". Whooo!
I think the funniest part about it, they became better at coding and other shit than the kids they were stalking. Not only do they hate tech but they're geniuses at it. Wasted talent, man.
Why does Keith David keep appearing in shitty movies? He's a good actor who can get into all kinds of high profile stuff but he just occasionally picks complete shit for some reason.
What the hell? XD
his movie career didn't do well since 2003 and I think he prefers doing voiceover
I'm wondering how they talked Brad Dorif into this mess...
+Jacob Lofthus
They offered him a date with six year old boy.
Combination of, easy paycheck and pity for the director.
I had the same thought about Dourif...
The oldest teenagers since Saved by the Bell.
What about Kingdom Hearts? Haley Joel Osmond is in his mid 30s but Sora is still 15
@@kylecampbell565 Sora is 16
9:34 Determining whether or not the killer brought their own murder weapon is actually considered an important detail in a murder case, because it shows that it was premeditated, and not a spur of the moment thing.
Fair but this movie definitely didn't know that. It's not writing realistic detectives. Just copy pasting lines from law and order
Dickman is the most masculine last name I've ever heard.
+Apotheosis What about Rowsdower?
Or Guymann?
CHIP BEEFSTEAK
SLAB, HARDBODY
The future was predicted
I just realized that "Jock who got his face deleted by chains" is Henry "The magic human killer" from Boogie Man 2 which Phelous also reviewed.
I'm still baffled they could afford Brad Dourif and Keith David.
Those actors are awesome but their not fabulously wealthy. Sometimes you just need to take a shit role
Brad Dourif's big name roles are rarer than his b-grade ones. Don't get me wrong, he's a decent actor, but he's better known for his camp (like Child's Play) than his highbrow stuff (like Wormtongue). And even his highbrow stuff is pretty camp.
"Also, stay tuned for the weather" gets me every time. This is one of the most poorly written movies I've ever seen, well, I haven't seen it.
Keith David is in this?! He’s probably thinking “I was in Platoon and Crash and now I’m in this shit?”
We hate technology so much that we force people into a situation so that if they don't use technology we'll KILL them! Keith David was so close to being the only reasonable character in this movie.
Greatest horror movie organization of all time; anti-technology master hackers.
"Aha a teacher giving technology based lectures doesn't know youtube's name". I WISH that was an inaccurate part of the movie but alas it is all too common in Highschool as teachers quite to often know nothing about the subjects they teach. I even seen this happen in college. So you went to much better highschools then I did where our programming teacher knew nothing about programming.
I literally just now realized that the killer kills people with chains... Because chain letter. I've seen this video numerous times. I have no excuse.
I'm following you since 1 or 2 years, and I just saw Benzaie and Le Sad Panda, I didn't know you were in the same circles :o I love your reviews :)
I've been friends with them for a long time.
It's like people don't know that you can choose to keep your information private if you want to.
Also, I honestly can't hear Keith David's voice without thinking about Saints Row.
Wow we got Roger Rabbit, and Goliath from Gargoyles. Plus Brad Dourif who was in The Jim Jones Story, and Star Trek Voyager.
+Heidi Fedor Brad was also in Lord of the Rings, and of course he played Chucky. I wonder how this movie managed to get him... likely he needed the money.
2 years later, still have no idea what the hell a midterm final is.
I’m guessing it’s a exam of some Kind😅
"What about My Tube, Your Space?" That line so dumb. You gotta be high to laugh at that. XD.
"I've seen this chain before!" "Where?" "Any given hardware store, it's actually a fairly common brand."
Some people are pointing out that determining whether the chains were at the scene or taken from somewhere else can help determine whether or not the crime was premeditated. Fair. But that has nothing to do with tracking down the chains manufacturer. Geez
Odd thing is, when I was real small I remember being told if you do not hand write every word exactly of the chain letter and send it to exactly 10 people and not every one of them did the same that you would die. So when I did get my first chain letter, I cried for 2 days straight out of fear bc handwriting is my downfall. But I got those 10 letters written and sent... and then I found out that all but one of those people threw them out so naturally I probably had my first ever panic attack and blacked out for a few months until I realized that I was still alive and not going to die. I was between 5-7 and this was before email was a thing I even knew of.
Enjoy my run-on sentences.. so sorry about that.
Yikes. What a horrible thing to do to a child
My highschool had a technology is evil course. The Amish Highschool teaches it as well
The teachers better have been completely naked and miming out the lessons in the air, otherwise their message is hypocritical.
I always hate the idea of technology is evil when almost everything we use in the last 300 years was made with technology.
There's an amish high school?
@@maximusdork3336 i'd say BYU, but that's mormons, not amish.
@@TheBonkleFox what does that stand for?
@@maximusdork3336 Brigham Young University
Before Channel Awesome imploded. Takes me back lol
I kind of want to see a film where someone ignores a chain comment that says that if they ignore it, a kid who was murdered will show up and kill them. The kid shows up, but they talk them out of killing them and end up kind of adopting them.
I would watch that movie. I like the way you think.
@@KoshVader Forgot to switch accounts to argue with yourself?
@@TheBonkleFox no, either I accidentally responded to the wrong comment or I was responding to a deleted comment. I don't have multiple accounts.
I'm pretty sure the human body would offer _far_ more resistance to being torn apart than that. Seriously, Play-Dough would have taken longer to pull apart than that chick.
The presence of Dourif made me decide that I require a Phelous review of Death Machine. I'll be waiting.
How does one guy end up at the deleter's house right after they delete the email? Does he have teleportation and prediction super powers?
Slasher movie killer powers ?
Hi, Phelous,
You've become one of my go-to people for being cheered up, and that's more important than you can ever imagine (I hope, for your sake). Not only do you save me and my friends from bad movies, you make us smile. Thanks to you and your friends for working so hard on these. And thanks for making me aware that it's been ... maybe a decade since I received a chain email. I always wrote back to the sender, saying that I wasn't about to mess with others by passing along the chain. Maybe someone has been looking out for me, and God isn't just a total bus (See Victoria, BC, Canada comedy improv group, Loading Ready Run, who use "bus" in place of not-so-family-friendly words, during their annual November charity marathon online, for Child's Play. They would probably enjoy having you Skype in for an interview, to pass time and raise donations.)
19:01 I never new I could check my email with Windows photo viewer!
9:26 is that Keith David? Sounds like it.
Edit: the guy who voices Julius Little from Saints Row, and himself, from Saints Row 4. And Admiral Anderson From Mass Effect.
Edit 2: yup, it's him. Poor guy.
2:00 These are the moments that affirm why I subscribe to this channel.
I miss Benzaie when he was doing English stuff.
I really hope you'll do a review of that film Unfriended.
Alex Olinkiewicz If you missed the rant video I pretty much said I'd be doing a video on it eventually.
Phelan Porteous oh I saw the rant video a while back. must of forgot you said that.
Alex Olinkiewicz Heh yeah, I pretty much always gotta do the stupid internet horror stuff and I hated Unfriended so I know I got enough to say there.
Phelan Porteous Yeah, I actually saw the film and I have to say the reason the girl commit suicide was really dumb...I'm always comparing it to the game Life Is Strange
Alex Olinkiewicz It's not an issue of if he'll review it, it's when he'll review it.
Not sure if it's coincidence or planned that the Jigsaw voice is in this review when the actress who played Jigsaws wife is also in this movie.
I love how this movie can't even do jump scares.... it just has open door and person there , or walking slowly around corner scares.
This has been the best Strong Bad Email episode ever
Dear Stong Brad,
How do you send Luddite propaganda via chain letter while wearing boxing gloves?
Love,
Andrew D.
Also the worst
I've got that Technology is Evil class.
At least it's an easy class since it's just "Listen to a paranoid man ramble about the interwebs for a few minutes".
Phelous a lot of killers actually use weapons they find at the crime scene, the fact that he brought his own actually shows that he's organized which the police can use in his profile to narrow down the search for the suspect. I'm not trying to be an ass just trying to inform you lol ;)
That's just not true.
Dr. Pepper actually, he's kinda right. There are many cases of a killer using a weapon they found in the house to kill its owner. With the murder weapon also being owned by the victim(s) it delays the police for a (mildly to extremely) short time. Etc: the Axemen of Louisiana: it was usually noted the murder weapon was determined to be a missing axe from the owners shed.
While I love technology I am glad that I finished high school before smart phones were invented. Would have annoyed the hell out of me with everyone around me texting while I was trying to study.
Also...Keith really? You were in Gargoyles and The Thing man!!! Why did you agree to be in this shit!!!!!??
Me hitting on a chick: "Hey baby. My tube, your space?"
I’m rewatching this and I’m very fed up with these scantily clad teens having bedrooms bigger than my goddamn house
It was a lazy cash in on gore torture porn movies and it clearly shows in its style, it was done clearly to make people think it was saw but even cheaper
It's stupid because real chain letters usually have some kind of scary storyline and there is some reason you're supposed to pass it on to protect yourself, but instead of doing that, this movie just goes straight to the "pass on or die." It might actually have been interesting if they'd put more thought into the letter itself. It's not like there's not enough real horror chain letters out there to get ideas from.
Keith David what are you doing in this movie.
Hey man, the guy has got to eat. But he’s thinking “I was in two Best Picture Oscar movies Platoon and Crash only to be in this shit?”
Don't stop being awesome phelous. :)
Oh shit, surprise Keith David.
RaithSienar Awwww he's cool why he keep popping up in shitty movies?-_-'
convoy81
Because shitty movies do in fact come with a paycheck.
RaithSienar Yeah i know...i was just sadly sarcastic or sarcastically sad...is like Malcolm McDowell
And if, you don't love me now
You will never love me again
I can still hear you saying
You would never break the chain (Never break the chain)
Hahaha any innovation is technology. A pitchfork and language are technology because they further objectives and make producing goods easier. Or is it the electronical technology only?
Brad Dourif talking to his students about privacy is a bit creepy, but in a good way.
Why do all these crappy movies have at least one actor who makes you wonder what they're doing there?
Seriously, Keith David, why?
Well at least the gargoyle, Goliath, and Roger Rabbit are on the case.
5:14 I swear the sound used for the you've received chain mail reminds me of the sound playing during the morphing sequence from Uchu Sentai Kyuranger.
I will say that this one of my most favorite reviews.
The best thing about. This movie is the black guy survives
Keith David? You were in Gargoyles!
I'm half expecting the killer to say "what do you think of the 21st century"
0:53 Nice Bubsy reference.
Brad Dourif, what are you doing???
I know he’s like crying “I was in Cuckoo’s Nest!!”
"He visits a chain expert!"
So he summons Pinhead for advice
Lmao
the black detective guy...is that the same guy who does the voice for captain anderson from Mass Effect? really sounds like him.
He's also Lt. Dixon in "Crash."
ForemostCrab7 and keith david from saint row 4.
pipo berber That's because he *is* Keith David, he plays himself in Saints Row IV.
i tell you what, nothing bothers me more than a stranger online knowing my favorite color.
::GASP!!:: 070 Brad Dourif was in this?!?!?
I realized that your SAW voice sounds a bit like the Warthog Gooba Mushroom Beast's voice too lol
that awkward moment when the Pop-Tart Jumpscare had more buildup and a better payoff to the "don't turn around" text.
Jesus, Keith David is in all of these spooky internet movies!
I haven't watched the whole video yet, but I'm guessing the "burhur technology is evil, fire is scary and Thomas Edison was a witch" professor is the killer.
Wouldn't it make more sense for those who forwarded the chain letter to be killed?
Rewatching this in 2019, and it reminded me that there's a mivie coming about soon about a killer phobe app. Please tell me you plan on reviewing that...
oh shit
"ALSO STAY TUNED FOR THE WEATHER ON 96.8!!!!!!"
X'D
Yeah, that caller was way too cheery.
And I cracked up laughing at the guy calling out to Jessie who looks like a packaged piece of lamb chops being dragged on the road.
3:10 It's hardly ever the black jock or white comedy sidekick...
Why do idiot cops in horror movies always go and "investigate" these creepy layers without back up? They don't even have a partner with them.
Also that chained to the cars trap was kind of stupid. Like what if the parents weren't completely oblivious morons and either saw the chains coming from their cars or felt/heard them moving as they started to drive off? It also depended on both parents flooring it right out of the driveway which is also dumb.
NOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Why are you in this Keith David? I know things are desperate but you are too good for this.
11:45 oh my god, I just realized that was the terrible actress that played jill tuck, the wife of jigsaw in the saw series
You spent all your life not chained to cars
Static? Bar codes? It was a long time before Hollywood learned how webcams and data work.
19:03-19:06 Am I the only one that thinks that the geeky WoW-ish guy, particularly in this scene, kind of sounds like Abu from Disney's Aladdin all sped up like that? XD
What do you get if you put a bunch of chain letters together?
Chainmail.
I watched Atop the fourth Wall's "Previously on" segments. You don't need to tell me Andrew Dickman is an evil mastermind!
Well, he did turn out to be evil....
This movie apparently wanted to be a bad cross between "Saw" and the "Ring".
watching this review in the year of our lord 2018 because my friend sent me erotic fanfiction about this movie
lucky for the opening scene they both park their cars in front of the garage, instead of, you know, in the garage. and that they both drive away side by side at the same time like racecars or something wtf? who does that?
That one is so hard to wrap my head around
The ironic thing is that Phelous referenced saw. Then the woman that played Jigsaw's wife is A detective in this movie.