Well, in a nutshell, lots of no names with a soggy plot. Who are most of these people? The drinking problem storyline is way overdone! It was a good concept, but not enough attention to who they cast in the flick. I wish the cover photo was more detailed, it just looks like a scribbled drawing from a middle schooler with issues. There was some 'would be'scary moments, but its 2008, even youtube clips are scary if the watcher is caught off guard, right? Made for t.v, maybe but a motion picture? It's mainly D list at best. (maybe E, lol)I am not a pro critic, this is just my opinion. Don't get me wrong...I love horror movies, but this movie is a horror!
10 Reviews
This could be a "so" good movie
cay-930 May 2008
What first hit me was that this is such a brilliant movie. Then I watched the other 60 minutes and it all faded away.
The director of this movie has done a lot of TV stuff and will probably have to stay with that. The cast is a laugh because they are mixing good performance with old TV stars that should have retired or just stayed with TV.
The plot is excellent, the effects are really scary. But the long drown out discussions should have been cut out to make a better flow to the movie.
The biggest mistake they made in this movie is to concentrate on the lead character's drinking problems and if his boss is gonna believe the star characters visions again, and again and again.
This is a pretty good movie that is obviously made fore TV and should stay there.
But with just a little more effort it could have been a very good movie.
It's good, but its just not making it. How ever its not a waste of time.
But it could have been so much more !!!!!
The director of this movie has done a lot of TV stuff and will probably have to stay with that. The cast is a laugh because they are mixing good performance with old TV stars that should have retired or just stayed with TV.
The plot is excellent, the effects are really scary. But the long drown out discussions should have been cut out to make a better flow to the movie.
The biggest mistake they made in this movie is to concentrate on the lead character's drinking problems and if his boss is gonna believe the star characters visions again, and again and again.
This is a pretty good movie that is obviously made fore TV and should stay there.
But with just a little more effort it could have been a very good movie.
It's good, but its just not making it. How ever its not a waste of time.
But it could have been so much more !!!!!
Another "Saw" cash-in by the worst move studio on Earth
BakuryuuTyranno22 November 2009
Okay, again, Night Light Films tried to cash in on "Saw" with a serial killer... well that's not completely true. "Saw" mixed in with that one urban legend that's popularly set in South America.
So yeah, like Jigsaw he does this "to help people". Thing is organ harvesters, if they rally exist, are in it for the money. It's just not convincing that this killer's motive is to help the people whose money he benefits from.
Granted, this is one of those films where you can actually see where it went wrong for the most part, but of course there's other stuff they added in that's supposed to be poetic or symbolic or something and what it in fact ends up being is really annoying.
So yeah, like Jigsaw he does this "to help people". Thing is organ harvesters, if they rally exist, are in it for the money. It's just not convincing that this killer's motive is to help the people whose money he benefits from.
Granted, this is one of those films where you can actually see where it went wrong for the most part, but of course there's other stuff they added in that's supposed to be poetic or symbolic or something and what it in fact ends up being is really annoying.
Lights out for this movie
Wizard-85 January 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This is the first movie from Night Light Films that I've seen, and after watching it, I am not looking forward to seeing any more movies from this company. To be sure, while the production was saddled with a really low budget, the production team did manage to squeeze every last penny, enough that the production values are several notches above your typical backyard production. And some of the acting by the no-name cast is competent. But the remaining parts of the movie are simply not that great. The screenplay needed more work - among other stumbles, it takes a long time before we learn the hero got a heart transplant and that his wife was killed. Also, the hero has been written to be not that particularly sympathetic, and we are stuck with him throughout the entire movie. But the main problem with the movie is with the direction. The movie is slow-moving, with very little atmosphere or tension during the endless pursuit of the serial killer. Things do pick up slightly in the last quarter of the movie, but it's too little too late. While the movie is not bad enough to provoke anger or frustration - it's too low key for that - you'll forget all about it within hours after watching it.
Rubbish supernatural serial killer thriller.
poolandrews7 February 2009
Warning: Spoilers
The Fear Chamber is set in Los Angeles where a serial killer (Richard Tyson) has been abducting, mutilating & murdering young girls. Los Angeles detective Nick Ferguson (Rhett Giles) is on the case & catches up with the killer but loses him after being stabbed in the heart, waking up in hospital Ferguson realises that he had heart surgery & that the killer is still at large, Ferguson's captain (Steven Williams) is on his case to get results & the pressure is also on from a sensationalistic media & a worried public. While in bed one night Ferguson has a vision, a vision of one of the killers victims which helps him identify her. The visions continue & despite other's scepticism Ferguson uses them to help him track down the brutal serial killer...
Co-written & directed by Kevin Carraway this supernatural serial killer thriller is probably best described as a cross between The Sixth Sense (1999) & The Silence of the Lambs (1991) & definitely best described as all crap. For a start the title The Fear Chamber has no real relevance to anything featured in the film although that's not a major issue to be honest, what is a major issue though is how bad the script is. The script almost completely ignore the killer & his motives until the very end, the majority of the run time focuses on detective Ferguson & his mental issue problems, his drinking problems & his personal problems in general. Ferguson is a veritable bundle of clichés as a cop in a film, he has a drinking problem, he is burnt out, the case he is on takes up his whole life, he has suffered close personal loss with the murder of his wife & he has a hard but ultimately fair captain who shouts & moans a lot. Seen it all before & the dialogue is really flat, it feels like the actor's are reading from cue cards just off screen that were written in a rush, the dialogue just doesn't feel that personal & has no life to it. Then there's the obligatory twist, now I will admit I usually am rubbish at guessing twist's but the two main ones that crop up at the end of The Fear Chamber are two of the most obvious plot twist's ever. I guessed both of them well in advance & anyone who has seen The Sixth Sense will guess at least one of them it's so obvious & the second twist has no impact anyway. The pace is slow, the film focuses on domestic drama rather than dramatic incident, there's nothing new here & the final twist is insultingly poor.
The Fear Chamber has cheap straight-to-video/DVD production written all over it, I only saw it a few hours ago & I can barely remember anything about it. There's an odd creative decision at the start in which the sky is tinted red for some bizarre reason, I have no idea why & it's an odd look in a film which is meant to be set in the real world. There's no real horror here, we only see the killer kidnap one girl & his activities seem to be a secondary consideration for the makers as they concentrate on Ferguson. There's a fairly gory scene where the killer cuts someone open with a scalpel & remove her kidney but apart from that this is very tame stuff. The Fear Chamber is regularly set in the most underpopulated police station in cinematic history, it seems only detective Ferguson & his boss works there & would one cop all by himself by assigned such a big case? Wouldn't he at least have a partner? Surely there would be an entire team working under him trying to track down a brutal serial killer? Or is a serial killer not considered that important? Also why did the killer paint his face at the end like a clown & what caused the room to shake? I know it was probably meant to be a supernatural occurrence but it's never referred to as such.
Filmed in real locations the film has a very made-for-telly cheap bland look about it, it's competent but forgettable & I still don't get the red sky at the start. The acting is poor throughout, Rhett Giles doesn't seem interested, Miranda Kwok as Kathryn is terrible as are the whole cast really.
The Fear Chamber is a poor serial killer thriller with supernatural overtones which is pretty bad all round really & it also features one of the most predictable twist endings ever which is a straight rip-off of The Sixth Sense anyway. Not to be confused with the classic Boris Karloff horror flick The Fear Chamber (1968).
Co-written & directed by Kevin Carraway this supernatural serial killer thriller is probably best described as a cross between The Sixth Sense (1999) & The Silence of the Lambs (1991) & definitely best described as all crap. For a start the title The Fear Chamber has no real relevance to anything featured in the film although that's not a major issue to be honest, what is a major issue though is how bad the script is. The script almost completely ignore the killer & his motives until the very end, the majority of the run time focuses on detective Ferguson & his mental issue problems, his drinking problems & his personal problems in general. Ferguson is a veritable bundle of clichés as a cop in a film, he has a drinking problem, he is burnt out, the case he is on takes up his whole life, he has suffered close personal loss with the murder of his wife & he has a hard but ultimately fair captain who shouts & moans a lot. Seen it all before & the dialogue is really flat, it feels like the actor's are reading from cue cards just off screen that were written in a rush, the dialogue just doesn't feel that personal & has no life to it. Then there's the obligatory twist, now I will admit I usually am rubbish at guessing twist's but the two main ones that crop up at the end of The Fear Chamber are two of the most obvious plot twist's ever. I guessed both of them well in advance & anyone who has seen The Sixth Sense will guess at least one of them it's so obvious & the second twist has no impact anyway. The pace is slow, the film focuses on domestic drama rather than dramatic incident, there's nothing new here & the final twist is insultingly poor.
The Fear Chamber has cheap straight-to-video/DVD production written all over it, I only saw it a few hours ago & I can barely remember anything about it. There's an odd creative decision at the start in which the sky is tinted red for some bizarre reason, I have no idea why & it's an odd look in a film which is meant to be set in the real world. There's no real horror here, we only see the killer kidnap one girl & his activities seem to be a secondary consideration for the makers as they concentrate on Ferguson. There's a fairly gory scene where the killer cuts someone open with a scalpel & remove her kidney but apart from that this is very tame stuff. The Fear Chamber is regularly set in the most underpopulated police station in cinematic history, it seems only detective Ferguson & his boss works there & would one cop all by himself by assigned such a big case? Wouldn't he at least have a partner? Surely there would be an entire team working under him trying to track down a brutal serial killer? Or is a serial killer not considered that important? Also why did the killer paint his face at the end like a clown & what caused the room to shake? I know it was probably meant to be a supernatural occurrence but it's never referred to as such.
Filmed in real locations the film has a very made-for-telly cheap bland look about it, it's competent but forgettable & I still don't get the red sky at the start. The acting is poor throughout, Rhett Giles doesn't seem interested, Miranda Kwok as Kathryn is terrible as are the whole cast really.
The Fear Chamber is a poor serial killer thriller with supernatural overtones which is pretty bad all round really & it also features one of the most predictable twist endings ever which is a straight rip-off of The Sixth Sense anyway. Not to be confused with the classic Boris Karloff horror flick The Fear Chamber (1968).
WERE YOU IN MY BATHROOM?
nogodnomasters11 December 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Teddy (Richard Tyson) is a female serial killer and amateur organ harvester (We all need a hobby.) Nick Ferguson (Rhett Giles) is a detective who goes it alone against Teddy and gets a hypodermic in the heart (and later a new heart). As Nick recovers he has nightmares of dead girls in his bathroom. A card carrying psychic (Miranda Kwok) he meets at a bar tells him to use the visions to find the killer.
Nick looks for the killer by mixing alcohol with Prozac. His personal demons take up a lot of film. Steven Williams who was trooper in "The Blues Brothers" is now the police captain over Nick and reminds me of a younger thin Danny Glover. The movie ends with an interesting twist that wasn't enough to save it. After Keesha Smith shows us her wares in the first few minutes, the move goes downhill. Too much time was spent on the detective and not enough on the killer.
F-bomb, nudity (Keesha Smith from Big Brother)
Nick looks for the killer by mixing alcohol with Prozac. His personal demons take up a lot of film. Steven Williams who was trooper in "The Blues Brothers" is now the police captain over Nick and reminds me of a younger thin Danny Glover. The movie ends with an interesting twist that wasn't enough to save it. After Keesha Smith shows us her wares in the first few minutes, the move goes downhill. Too much time was spent on the detective and not enough on the killer.
F-bomb, nudity (Keesha Smith from Big Brother)
Nifty supernatural serial killer thriller
Woodyanders5 January 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Detective Nick Ferguson (a solid and believable performance by Rhett Giles) has a near fatal run-in with vicious serial killer Teddy (a creepy and convincing portrayal by Richard Tyson), who's been terrorizing the city of Los Angeles by murdering young women and removing their organs. After receiving a new heart and recovering in the hospital, Ferguson continues his obsessive search for Teddy. However, Ferguson has now acquired psychic abilities that enable him to have horrific visions of Teddy's victims as they're being tormented and murdered. Director/co-writer Kevin Carraway relates the absorbing story at a steady pace, develops a considerable amount of tension, delivers a fair amount of grisly graphic gore, and tosses in a few neat and surprising twists. Moreover, Ferugon makes for an appealingly flawed and troubled protagonist and his nightmarish visions are genuinely spooky and unsettling. This film further benefits from sound acting by the capable cast: Giles holds everything with his sturdy work as Ferguson, with fine support from Steven Williams as Ferguson's profane and hard-nosed superior Captain Bradley, Miranda Kwok as helpful psychic Kathryn, and John Duerler as diligent forensics expert Dr. Youngblood. Both Henryk Cymerman's slick cinematography and the rattling score by Mel Lewis are up to speed. Worth a watch.
Good story but not enough budget
TdSmth521 October 2014
Some guy is performing a vivisection on a girl. Other girls are chained elsewhere in the facility. Some lame cop arrives, the guy escapes, the cop chases him. On the roof the bad guy manages to stab a knife in the cop's heart.
Later the cop is recovering from a heart transplant. Of course he doesn't want to just get well, he wants to get the bad guy now. Helping him is the forensic pathologist who discovers some interesting bits of info here and there based on evidence found on the discovered body parts.
At a bar he meets a psychic who wants to help. She appears here and there without notice and always having some advanced knowledge of something. At some point he has yet another chance to catch the bad guy but again he escapes. Eventually the captain of course takes the cops badge and gun. That seems to be a daily occurrence at police precincts--only in the movies. We learn that the bad guy is actually a physician who removes organs. But he's also a little wacky as we learn when the cop eventually confronts him. Then we learn not just what the crazy doc is up to but also what is going on with the psychic and the cop.
The Fear Chamber starts out pretty good with a gritty gory scene with some nudity but then it turns into a low budget cop thriller. The main cast is good, with Tyson standing out in the role of the bad guy, whom we don't see enough though. The guy playing the cop and the captain are alright. The story is good when it comes the the explanation of the evil actions and the explanation of the more supernatural elements surrounding the cop. Unfortunately the movie is hampered by the low budget, cheesy sets, slow story development, and the inability to give us some more horror, gore, nudity.
Later the cop is recovering from a heart transplant. Of course he doesn't want to just get well, he wants to get the bad guy now. Helping him is the forensic pathologist who discovers some interesting bits of info here and there based on evidence found on the discovered body parts.
At a bar he meets a psychic who wants to help. She appears here and there without notice and always having some advanced knowledge of something. At some point he has yet another chance to catch the bad guy but again he escapes. Eventually the captain of course takes the cops badge and gun. That seems to be a daily occurrence at police precincts--only in the movies. We learn that the bad guy is actually a physician who removes organs. But he's also a little wacky as we learn when the cop eventually confronts him. Then we learn not just what the crazy doc is up to but also what is going on with the psychic and the cop.
The Fear Chamber starts out pretty good with a gritty gory scene with some nudity but then it turns into a low budget cop thriller. The main cast is good, with Tyson standing out in the role of the bad guy, whom we don't see enough though. The guy playing the cop and the captain are alright. The story is good when it comes the the explanation of the evil actions and the explanation of the more supernatural elements surrounding the cop. Unfortunately the movie is hampered by the low budget, cheesy sets, slow story development, and the inability to give us some more horror, gore, nudity.
Do not watch this movie alone
jacobjohntaylor123 July 2017
This a very scary movie. It is very underrated. It is very scary. It has a great story line. And it will make you go Ah! It will. It has great acting. It has great special effects. Has you are watching it you will go. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!. I not know why it got a 3.4. I give it a 9. It is a great movie. It will scary you. It is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street. And that is not easy to do. If it does not scary you no movie will. It will make you go AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!. It is very scary. When you are watching this movie will go AHHHHHHHHH! It is a very scary movie. See it. You want to get scared see this movie. It is scarier then Friday the 13th V a new beginning and that is not easy to do.
Low budget movie that wasn't too bad.
slimebitch10 August 2013
I read some comments on this movie before watching it since it had been rated so low. To start with it made me angry when someone compared this movie with Saw since I happen to love the Saw movies a whole lot. This movie is not even close to Saw, the only thin in common was a cop and a serial killer, which I believe there normally is in every horror movie ever made more or less including a serial killer, there has to be a good cop to try to stop him right?! Anyway I do not wish to spoil your fun. I rated this movie 6/10 because there were a few things that I thought was kind of stupid in the movie, but this didn't spoil my fun watching it. People seem to analyze and reanalyze movies that I think were made for our pleasure and entertainment. Ever since the 80's these kind of horror movies has been made, but in the 80's people didn't complain about how stupid or unreal the movies were, when people died in their sleep in "Terror on Elm-Street" or how stupid the women looked running half naked in "Friday the 13th". This kind of movie is there for our entertainment and some people really needs to push the brain button off while watching some movies. I am a horror movie fan and have been for over 20 years and I have seen a lot of bad movies in my days. "The Fear Chamber" is not one of those, a bit stupid and missed to give me the "creepy feeling running along my back", but accept for that is was totally OK. This movie gave me fun and pleasure for about 1 hour and a half.
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