The Fear Chamber (2009)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

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.

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.

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.

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 !!!!!