Horror

Chain Reaction

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

A prison bus with over a dozen criminals on board has an accident and rams another car, in which Dr. Douglas Madsen was on his way home. Most of the prisoners die. Four of them survive, one of them severely injured. After having killed all the guards, they head for the woods. They take Dr. Douglas Madsen hostage. Suddenly a huge house appears in the middle of the woods. The leader of the group, Arthur, emphasizes that he will kill Douglas and every single member of the "family" if his wounded brother would die. Meanwhile some members of the family show strange behavior, and very soon mayhem breaks loose.

Release Date : 2006-03-18

Language :GermanEnglish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : J FilmproductionsCMN InvestmentIMAS Filmproduktion

Production Country : Germany

Alternative Titles : House of BloodChain Reaction

Cast

Character Name : Douglas Madsen

Original Name : Christopher Kriesa

Gender : Male

Character Name : Alice

Original Name : Martina Ittenbach

Gender : Male

Character Name : Arthur Palmer

Original Name : Simon Newby

Gender : Male

Character Name : Spence Palmer

Original Name : Luca Maric

Gender : Male

Character Name : Vincenzo Tomassi

Original Name : Mehmet Yilmaz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Stephen Nix

Original Name : Jaymes Butler

Gender : Male

Character Name : Paul Anderson

Original Name : Dan van Husen

Gender : Male

Character Name : Police Man

Original Name : Jürgen Prochnow

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jimmy

Original Name : Daryl Jackson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Shawn

Original Name : James Matthews-Pyecka

Gender : Male

Character Name : Joseph

Original Name : Klaus Münster

Gender : Male

Character Name : Phillip

Original Name : Gerhard Jilka

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wallace

Original Name : Harald Pucher

Gender : Male

Character Name : Karen

Original Name : Lisa Sachsenweger

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ron

Original Name : Gunter Bender

Gender : Male

Character Name : Matthew

Original Name : Christian Scholz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Maria

Original Name : Marion Grundies

Gender : Male

Character Name : Police Officer 2

Original Name : Thomas Reitmair

Gender : Male

Character Name : Douglas as Child

Original Name : Oskar Bender

Gender : Male

Character Name : Martha Madsen

Original Name : Daniela Sachsenweger

Gender : Male

Character Name : Paul Madsen / SWAT Guy 4

Original Name : Rainer Metz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cop - with BE Radio Receiver

Original Name : Jeff Motherhead

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cop - Headshot

Original Name : Chris Schmidlin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cop - Shootout

Original Name : Cyrill Geffcken

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bus Driver

Original Name : Tom Littich

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Woman - in the Red Car

Original Name : Ala Freyberg

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cop - Killed with a Fire Extinguisher

Original Name : Harald Schuster

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cop - Stabbed in the Neck

Original Name : Salvatore Pascale

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cop - Killed with a Spanner

Original Name : Barrett Jones

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cop - Killed with Handcuffs

Original Name : Oliver Bartusch

Gender : Male

Character Name : White Dog

Original Name : Jackie

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wounded Cop on the Ground

Original Name : Erik Lucas

Gender : Male

Character Name : Prisoner

Original Name : Olaf Ittenbach

Gender : Male

Character Name : SWAT Guy

Original Name : Juergen Goettle

Gender : Male

Character Name : SWAT Guy 2

Original Name : Martin Weiß

Gender : Male

Character Name : SWAT Guy 3

Original Name : Gottfried Mach

Gender : Male

Character Name : SWAT Dog

Original Name : Baerlie

Gender : Male

Character Name : Extra

Original Name : Zach Weisman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Extra

Original Name : Dominik Lienhard

Gender : Male

Character Name : Extra

Original Name : Yazid Benfeghoul

Gender : Male

Character Name : Extra

Original Name : Christoph Klein

Gender : Male

Character Name : Extra

Original Name : Volker Schiller

Gender : Male

Character Name : Extra

Original Name : Christian Lohmer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Extra

Original Name : Leo Pachmann

Gender : Male

Character Name : Extra

Original Name : Markus Binder

Gender : Male

Reviews

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2021-06-23

Some movies are hard to enjoy, no matter how much we try to overlook the flaws. I simply couldn't concentrate on the dialogues, which is already a big shame, considering that we're in the 21st century and movies in this day and age are not silent anymore. I know most of the cast members were German and they were speaking in a foreign language, but frankly, I don't think that is the audience's fault. So why should we pay for the consequences and put up with these extremely irritating thick accents?, I'll never know. American actor Christopher Kriesa, performing Dr. Douglas Madsen, was perhaps the only decent or at least mildly tolerable character. The others were simply pitiful, especially because of that fictional and laughable form of an antique English dialect, spoken by this group of weirdos who live in a cottage in the middle of the woods. Perhaps this so-called ancient form of English was just a way to cover the fact that the actors weren't English speakers, but the results turn out to be pretty bad anyway. Concerning the plot, I don't know if it is too weak or not, maybe it is, but that is not nearly as blameworthy as the fact that the same story happens twice. Hard to believe as it is, it's real. The exact same story occurs twice in each half of the movie, only with different characters, except for Dr. Douglas Madsen who appears both times. It seems like the writers were desperately trying to fill one hour and a half and they run out of ideas when they finished the first half of the script. It's somewhat hilarious, come to think of it. It's like watching a new horror movie and then the quick remake or something of that sort. I hate being harsh with my reviews, because regardless of how much I can like or dislike a film, there's always a noble effort coming from a director, the cast members and everyone involved in a movie. Perhaps "Chain Reaction" can be appreciated for its little things like the unpretentious moments of plain gore that avoid the cheap CGI for latex and Korn Flakes. Frankly, I didn't enjoy the movie very much, but I'm sure gore worshipers are going to find it bearable on the whole.