Chain Letter 2010

The film opens in a garage, with an unconscious teenage girl having her head wrapped in duct tape and her legs chained to the back of two cars. A man and woman walk to the cars and start to drive off, dragging the victim along the ground. The cars are about to take different turns at the end of the driveway when the woman notices the victim, but before she can warn the man, he drives off.

Neil Conners receives an anonymous chain letter via email, telling him that he is the first person who links the chain and he must send it on to five people or else he will die. His sister Rachel (Cherilyn Wilson) forwards the letter but to only four recipients. Neil then adds his sister to the list and sends it, to complete the five.

Rachel’s best friend, Jessica “Jessie” Campbell, receives the email and also forwards it to five friends, whilst Johnny Jones also receives it but refuses to send it, believing it to be ridiculous. He goes to the gym where he is knocked unconscious by a black-hooded figure. He is then chained by his arms to a gym set, his ankles are cut across and the chains wrapped round his face, killing him.

While taking a bath, Rachel becomes suspicious of a possible intruder inside the house. She investigates and is attacked by the killer who whips her with a chain several times as she runs through the house to escape. Re-entering the bathroom, she locks the door and looks for a weapon, before placing her face against the door to listen. She realises the killer is on the other side doing exactly the same thing and a few seconds later, he breaks through a side wall into the bathroom and kills her by hitting her on the head with the cistern lid.

Outside the house, Jessie is greeted by Detective Jim Crenshaw, who tells her to forward the chain letter to him. Jessie figures out they are being spied on using a virus embedded in the chain letter so she tells Neil and Michael to get new e-mail addresses and phone numbers, as she believes this will stop the murders. Later on, as more people send Neil the message, he panics and decides to delete all of them. He wants to confront the killer, who turns out to be on the roof of Neil’s room, dragging him up onto the roof of the house by a hook attached to a long chain, killing him.

The next day, it is revealed that the teen girl chained to the cars at the beginning of the film is in fact Jessie, who is killed because she sent the chain letter to Detective Crenshaw without sending it to four other people. Michael tries to save her but is too late and when her father pulls out of the driveway, Jessie is ripped apart.

As the film ends, Detective Crenshaw is shown shackled to a table while the killer makes chains nearby.