![]() ![]() He graduated from Tehran American School. Smith was born in Alpena, Michigan, to an Air Force family, which lived in Tehran, Iran, during his last two years of high school. ![]() He is best known for his appearances on the television series Charmed, where he played Belthazor, a Grimlock leader and Shax. Nothing will shock you about the story, but, like listening to the blues, it can be interesting to see what someone else does with a familiar chord progression.Michael Bailey Smith (born November 2, 1957) is an American actor. If you’re wondering, know that there are a number of inventive and messy ways to end someone’s life with a freakin chain…if you’re still curious, check out this movie. Not the Cenobite type of chain, or even 80’s hip-hop star type of chain, but the tow truck type of chain. Who knew how many different ways there were to kill someone…with a chain. That was a good time.Īnd, as stated previously, the kill scenes were fun at times too. Every five minutes I was pointing at the screen playing the name game my lady hates so much. Pagan (See no Evil), Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, LOTR, Exorcist 3 ), Betsy Russell (Saw movies as Jigsaw’s wife), Keith David (TV’s The Cape, Platoon) and even Charles Fleisher (the voice of Roger Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit). Seriously, there’s a whole mess of actors in this movie: Matt Cohen (Dark House), Cherilyn Wilson (Social Network, Roommate), Cody Kasch (Asylum), Noah Segan (Deadgirl ), Nikki Reed (Twilight saga), Michael J. It bugs me that they even introduced them into the story at all. They never connected the dots between the tech-haters and the henchman, appropriately dubbed the Chain Man (who kills with his…chains), who carried out their master plan. The problem is that the film maker never developed this line of the plot. When Y2K didn’t ultimately turn out as they’d hoped what’s left to do? The only thing any self-respecting technology hater can do: murder the tech generation using their own love of technology, of course. Sure, the obvious lure of the chain letter is a potential home run for this genre, but add to it a secret society of technology haters whose dream come true was the paranoia incited byY2K. ![]() They almost even turn a cookie cutter plot into something with some depth, which was initially one of the more exciting aspects of the film. Some of the kill scenes are fantastic, others are kind of run-of-the-mill. Now insert a premise, the dreaded chain letter (pass this on or Jesus won’t love you type of thing) to be used as a reason to wax all these people, then introduce the guy who in grand fashion will end these poor “teens” lives and you have the movie Chain Letter. Right off the bat it’s wincingly similar to “Scary Movie”. The dramatis personae consist of all the mainstays: Jock, cheerleader, nerd (who of course is a gamer, dammit), gear head, academic, and, as much as I hate to say it, the token black guy. To begin with we have the requisite high school setting, populated with the most attractive twenty-somethings Hollywood could find. As it turns out it was a little of all those things. I just wasn’t sure if I was going to enjoy its predictability or groan at it be shocked at plot twists I didn’t see coming, or yawn at the banality of it all. I knew they were going to introduce what they are hoping will be the next franchise-able villain. I expected it to have some decent kill scenes. I knew it was going to have a cookie-cutter plot. Chain Letter is exactly the movie I was expecting to see. Slasher films can be the same way in that, regardless of recycling plot-lines and character stereotypes, fans of the genre always return because they know what they’re going to get: good-looking people getting slaughtered. There’s something magical about a simple I, IV, V chord progression and how, even in its simplistic predictability, genius can be found. Starring: Nikki Reed, Keith David, Betsy Russell With a warning that if they break the chain, they will lose a life, the seemingly harmless email turns deadly when one-by-one the friends that do not forward the chain letter are hunted down and gruesomely killed by horror’s newest villain, the Chain Man. When high school senior Jessie Campbell and her tight-knit group of friends begin to receive a series of foreboding email chain letters, they have no idea the terror that awaits them. ![]()
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