Chain Reaction (2006) (V)

User Rating:

3.7/10   

Director:

Olaf Ittenbach

Writers:

Olaf Ittenbach (writer)
Thomas Reitmair (writer)

Release Date:

4 April 2006 (Germany)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

For the undead...there's no place like home

Plot:

A group of convicts and a doctor seek refuge from the authorities in a lodge deep in the wood, but the weird inhabitants are not friendly.

Plot Keywords:

Prisoner | Prison Bus | Vampire | Shape Shifter | Gunshot Wound

Cast

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
Daryl Jackson	...	Jimmy
Wolfgang Müller	...	George (as Wolfgang Mueller)
James Matthews	...	Shawn (as James Matthews-Pyecka)
Klaus Münster	...	Joseph (as Klaus Muenster)
Gerhard Jilka	...	Phillipp
Harald Pucher	...	Wallace
Lisa Sachsenweger	...	Karen
Gunter Bender	...	Ron (as Gunther Bender)

Also Known As:

House of Blood (USA) (DVD title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong bloody violence/gore and pervasive language.

Runtime:

101 min | 103 min (uncut)

Country:

Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Germany:18 (JK/SPIO) (cut) | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A (Ontario) | Canada:R (Manitoba) | USA:R | Finland:K-18 | Netherlands:16

Filming Locations:

Austria

Company:

CMN Investment

Trivia:

Director Olaf Ittenbach makes a cameo as a prisoner at the end.

Movie Connections:

References "Marcus Welby, M.D." (1969)

Soundtrack:

So Cool

Where were script, brain and talent?

Olaf is Germany's sfx-wonder. And he is an amateur in making movies. He started with video-home-movie-horror-events with incredible sfx which looks like the best days of Lucio Fulcio or the Hellraiser movies. But script, directing actors and dialogs are not his profession. I know that he is thinking that directing is his profession, but that is not true...look his movies. This movie is also a small-big-budget-amateur-movie with on a high trash-level and a lot of unmeant comedy. But there is a lot of splatter and gore sfx on a high level. Jürgen Prochnow has a small part in this movie and the only reason for it is, that he want to give this movie a chance because of his name. The story and setting is always the same in a Ittenbach movie: the hell, the dead, maniacs, zombies, rednecks and some stupid heroes with some lame Tarantiono-dialogs.