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eric on Dec 7th 2008 Movies

What was I thinking?!

After seeing what was quite possibly the best horror movie I’ve seen in years, I get something from Netflix called The Devil’s Chair.

Here’s the synopsis…

After his girlfriend, Sammy, dies during a drug-addled night in a deserted asylum, Nick winds up in a mental hospital and accused of her murder. But years later, a skeptical doctor returns to the scene with Nick and some students to prove his innocence. Now Nick must face the demons responsible for Sammy’s horrific death in the sinister torture chair they discovered that night.

Yes, I know that Netflix doesn’t randomly send you movies that you didn’t put on your queue. So, yeah, in a way, I sort of requested this one. But seriously, it was the highest rated horror movie that I haven’t already seen.

Now I sure do hope that Nick gets cleared of the murder of Sammy. I hope that this skeptical doctor and his students clear Nick of all charges. That would be a good thing. People who are falsely accused of murder shouldn’t be in jail (duh). But why why oh WHY does it have to involve a “sinister torture chair”? Why?

I mean, it’s a good story (as The Life of David Gale has proven). So why the sinister torture chair?

I’m assuming that this sinister torture chair is the Devil’s Chair from the title of the movie. How did the Devil’s chair wind up at this asylum? Did Satan put an ad on Craigslist? Did someone break into Beelzabub’s apartment and swipe his Lazyboy? Who took the man-goat’s lounger!?

And what’s more important, who the hell decided to make this into a movie? And how how how how did it get 3.5 stars on Netflix?

I’ve not watched it yet and maybe I’ll get to it tonight. But with user reviews of “prepare to be freaked out” and “moments of brilliance,” I’m trying to figure out if maybe I’m the deficient one. We’ll see.

It’s British, so it could be good. But I can almost guarantee you that it’s got a bunch of crappy “metal” songs throughout. Also shaky camera work and screaming. And, of course, the sinister torture chair.

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