Jennifer Lynch's latest thriller, Chained, is making its way to DVD/Blu-ray (as a combo pack) on October 2nd.
Vincent D'Onofrio, Gina Phillips, Conor Leslie, Evan Bird, Jake Weber and Julia Ormond star.
Coming home from a routine trip to the movies, eight-year-old Tim (Bird) and his mother, Sarah (Ormond) are picked up by a psychopathic cab driver named Bob (D’Onofrio).
It ends up being their last ride together. Bob murders the young boy’s mother and keeps Tim as his unwilling protégée, making him clean up the mess following each murder he commits. After a couple of aborted escape attempts, Bob chains Tim - now renamed Rabbit - allowing just enough length to move freely within the house.
As the years pass, Bob starts instructing Rabbit, teaching him anatomy and human behavior. Now a teenager, Rabbit (Eamon Farren) is slowly being pressed by Bob to start his own homicidal spree. Slowly but surely, he must soon choose whether to follow in Bob’s serial killer footsteps or make one final, desperate attempt to break free...
Special features include an audio commentary by Lynch and D'Onofrio, the alternated unrated version of “Mary’s Murder," and the original theatrical trailer.
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9 comments:
Oh, this is a quick DVD release after the festival season. So I assume there won't be a 'normal' theater release at all?
It looks like that but at least this way we get to see the movie all the quicker.
Does anyone know why the movie won't be released in theaters? Or am I missing something?
No, Antje, looks like a straight-to-DVD. Rose, that's the question of the day. One that I have no clue how to answer.
Only thing I could come up with is it is too violent, but that makes no sense, maybe they didn't think it would do well at the box office and maybe make more money this way, but that doesn't make sense either.
I have to admit to taking this personally as I have built things up in the hopes that there would be a theatrical release and praises heaped onto Vincent. All that hard work, insisting on filming consecutively for three days so as not to break character and it goes to a disc for sale on the internet. I'm dejected.
You did a lot of work with your articles and banners for the movie, and us discussing the pictures and what we thought might happen or not happen. Thanking you for all the work. Since I really don't know much about how films are released or not released, and why some go right to DVD, feel rather let down. But there must be a valid reason why, at least I would think so.
I'm actually optomistic that the straight to DVD may be a good thing. Remeber the way we watch movies is changing and in some cases movies make more money from DVD, on Demand and Netflix than a theactrical release. I'm hoping that we'll start seeing awards for these catogories of release.
Thank you, Rose, I wasn't fishing for any compliments...it's just that I'm disappointed and am wondering like all of you why things have turned out this way. Like being told you're going to the circus but someone hands you a box of popcorn instead. vikeau, I was wondering about the awards too. Another missed opportunity.
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