Chained

Chained (2012)

Chained first published, in a shorter form, by Film4. Wrote (different) reviews of this film here and here. Synopsis: A boy is guided to manhood by the taxi-driving serial killer (Vincent D’Onofrio) who has abducted him. Jennifer Lynch directs and co-writes.   Review: The titular antihero of Martin Scorsese‘s Taxi Driver (1976) may famously have been…

Chained

Chained (2012)

Chained first appeared in Sight & Sound, March 2013 Review: Legacies sometimes have to be borne like shackles. Though a talented director in her own right, Jennifer Lynch’s very surname conjures a cinematic pedigree that threatens to overshadow her own individual achievements. To put it starkly, when a film is described as ‘Lynchian’, it is…