{"id":4376,"date":"2021-10-06T19:24:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T19:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/patterns-of-representation-in-the-horror-genre\/analysis-of-chain-letter-2010\/"},"modified":"2021-10-06T19:24:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T19:24:13","slug":"analysis-of-chain-letter-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/patterns-of-representation-in-the-horror-genre\/analysis-of-chain-letter-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of Chain Letter (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Movie: Chain Letter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Production Year: 2010<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tubi Provided Summary: A group of high schoolers being hunted for refusing to forward a deadly chain letter must figure out how to solve its riddle before it\u2019s too late.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Film Can Be Accessed At: https:\/\/tubitv.com\/movies\/496029\/chain-letter?start=true<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Does This Movie Pass The Bechdel Test: No<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Character Analysis:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jessie: Main character, studious, dresses highly feminine and is sought after sexually by several characters<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Johnny: Athlete, values his strength, self-conscious of his muscle mass, highly masculine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rachel: Ditzy girly-girl, highly social and popular, feminine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Neil: Standard geek, not very popular, goofy, masculine and feminine traits<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dante: \u201cWoke\u201d hippie character, likes Jessie, intelligent, masculine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kevin: Popular guy, jock, very masculine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Detective Jim Crenshaw: Intelligent, curious, masculine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michael: Token non-white character, masculine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Professor\/Chain Man: Antagonist, mysterious, predator to Jessie<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Death Analysis<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Johnny: First to die, extended death scene, arms dislocated from their sockets, Achilles tendons severed, and face ripped apart with chains, killed by Professor\/Chain Man<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dante: Second to die, quick death scene, baited and body severed a dropping car engine, killed by Professor\/Chain Man<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rachel: Third to die, extended death scene, whipped with chains, thrown into a mirror, and head sliced open with a toilet lid, killed by Professor\/Chain Man<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Neil: Fourth to die, moderate death scene, dragged through the roof with chains and sickles, killed by Professor\/Chain Man<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kevin: Moderate death scene, hung from the ceiling in a large ball of chains and burned alive, killed by Professor\/Chain Man<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jessie: extended death scene (shown on camera twice), head wrapped in duct tape, chained to her parents\u2019 two cars, ripped apart as her father drives away, killed by her parents<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Survival Analysis<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michael: Sees Jessie die and is traumatized but uninjured<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Professor\/Chain Man: Survives to continue his death game<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ambiguous Endings<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Detective Jim Crenshaw: Shown strapped to a table with chains as the film cuts<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Final Statistics:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Character Sex Ratio: 2 Females: 7 Males<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Character Survivor Ratio: 0 Females: 2 Males (not including ambiguous characters)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Character Death Ratio: 100% of Females to 57.14% of Males (not including ambiguous characters)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Final Takeaways:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chain Letter follows the formula of a gore-centric horror film. No attention is paid to developing character personalities, making them relatable or likable in any way, or making their deaths mean anything. An attempt was made to warn of the dangers of technology but falls flat as it is rarely developed in an effective way outside of on-screen blood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This film did, however, deliver when it came to violence. All deaths are horrendous, overly gory, and offer little to the imagination. Despite this variety, there is little in the variety of cast and characters with almost all kills being white males and the occasional defenseless and nearly naked white female.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Characters were typically masculine and those that showed any femininity in their character were effectively killed off during the film. This plus a lack of characters with feminine qualities led to an alarmingly masculine makeup. Because of its lack of diversity, failing the Bechdel Test, and erasure of femininity in the film as seen by the Sex Role perspective, Chain Letter makes for a letdown in the horror genre.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie: Chain Letter \u00a0 Production Year: 2010 \u00a0 Tubi Provided Summary: A group of high schoolers being hunted for refusing to forward a deadly chain letter must figure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[187],"tags":[75],"splot_meta":{"author":"Ariana Nichols","license":"","source":"IMDb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}