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PLOT

Danielle moves into an old house and almost immediately things start going wrong. It turns out that after a particularly bad breakup with a guy that lives on a boat, she had an “episode” though it’s more like a psychotic break. Now she’s on meds and when she notices things moving in her new house, everyone thinks she’s just having another one of her zany moments. She starts filming herself while she’s sleeping and sees firsthand what her dreams look like. After her sister confronts her, they decide to research the house and discover that a magician lived there years ago. He mesmerized another man, buried him alive and was eventually sent to prison for it. Danielle keeps seeing things that aren’t there and decides the perfect thing to do is set up her Master’s thesis around the fear of things that go bump in the night. Oh and she starts experiencing blackouts where she does crazy things…like eat seven tins of cat food.

TRIVIA

This move was so low budget that the director actually used his own home for the set of the movie. All of the scenes that took place inside a house were actually shot in his own home.

THOUGHTS

The Chair was far from the worst movie I’ve ever seen, but not exactly the best either. The girl playing Danielle looks like a porn star so when she has to do things like mimic being raped in bed by an unknown attacker or having an orgasm, she does great. When she has to play the part of an anguished grad school student or a girl that truly fears for her life, she fails miserably. She looks perpetually confused for a good portion of the movie. I know casting smaller budgeted horror movies can’t be easy, but it has to be easier than this. Her IMDB page is pretty small, which probably means she did a lot of stuff that isn’t show because it’s porn.

I also have to say that damn there’s a lot of shit on the internet about her house. She basically googles her address and finds video from the magician, pictures and even step by step details on how to build her own mesmerizing chair just like he did.

If you’re willing to ignore all the stuff that doesn’t make sense, The Chair wasn’t a horrible movie. When Danielle finally goes crazy, it somehow seems to work. She actually looks pretty damn scary and somehow I wouldn’t jump up and down when she suggested I climb in her new chair and give it a whirl. I would however run screaming for my life.