Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

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

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Puffer Bluntman The movie Devil's Chair is a decent low budget horror flick which, though suffering from several plot holes here and there and seemingly inescapable Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels type clichés, is nevertheless worth your while. This picture is good in creating atmosphere, and has top notch special effects, especially considering its budget. Some scenes can seem cheesy, and some plainly should've been left out for the plot to make sense as a whole, but the finale of the movie compensates for it greatly, guaranteed to send chills down your spine at least a couple of times, or maybe even make you laugh out of its sheer absurd, considering several serious problems the movie has within its plot. In short, if you can be forgivable to low budget horror flicks for working with what they have, and if you dig gore genre, this flick can honestly deliver several good chills down your spine, mainly by working with practical effects and cinematography, unlike the jump- scare-dependent films of recent years. The movie goes a bit beyond simple B-movie and tries to be smarter than your average low budget horror, so it's got that on its side, and it's just fun to watch if you haven't got anything better.

deletewindowson First, I'm really starting to hate this bald guy. Really. He was the rat bastard sadistic rapo sheriff in the latest I Spit On Your Grave. In that one he was richly and ingeniously rewarded for his evilosity. In that one the raped girl shoved a shotgun up his fundament and blew his teeth out the hard way (the really hard way?) But in this flick he gets away with all his crimes and seems to be going off on a further murder spree. Okay the spoiler: there is no chair. He says so. The old shrink, "Gandalf", says too that what's happening, ie the Cthulhu monster part, is not real. It's all in his head. But um he's just a psycho this bald guy. A psychopath. But that's the twist, you see: the psycho turns out to be a psychotic. Sure. Get to neckin' with a gal who ain't there and, yep, you're nuts, baby. So it's metaphor of course. The hoity-toities who buy into the psychobabble are just as gullable and stupid as those who buy into the supernatural hooey. The psychopath knows that and toys with them on that basis. The yob says they're weak. And proclaims himself strong. At the end, the twist has another twist: it's all con. The psychopath is pitching directly across the "4th wall" and he knows it. So the imaginary necking at the end is just more bullshit from a bloodthirsty goon. He's not talking to an imaginary girlfriend: he's talking to us, the audience. The punters. Let's call this thing "Try To Make A Jason Franchise". But, no thanks.

BA_Harrison When Nick West (Jason Statham lookalike Andrew Howard) and his slutty girlfriend Sammy (Pollyanna Rose) decide to explore an abandoned insane asylum, they discover a bizarre looking chair and use it as a prop for a spot of acid-fuelled sex. But as the couple begin to go at it, their pleasurable experience turns into a nightmare: the chair—actually a portal to a hellish realm inhabited by a rapacious tentacled demon—traps Sammy, impales her with metal spikes and tendrils, and then whisks her body away.Unable to adequately explain his girlfriend's disappearance, West is declared criminally insane and spends four years residing in a mental hospital, after which he is eventually released into the care of Dr. Willard (David Gant), who, along with assistant Melissa (Louise Griffiths) and psychiatry students Brett (Matt Berry) and Rachel (Elize du Toit), unwisely takes his patient back to the scene of the crime to face his demons.According to the opening waffle from West, his story will be worth our while, but as the film ultimately reveals, he's not a man to be trusted: The Devil's Chair is a massive waste of time.After over an hour spent building a fairly intriguing story around the premise of a supernatural chair, writer/director Adam Mason attempts to pull the rug from under the viewer's feet in the film's closing moments by revealing that virtually nothing that we have seen has actually happened, but has instead only taken place in the warped mind of Mr. West.It's a hackneyed, over-used plot device from a director desperate to make sense of his very muddled movie; matters are made all the more irritating thanks to the smug nature of the script, which positively delights in the fact that us horror fans have once again been shafted by a film-maker with no ideas of his own (even his visual style is trite and unimaginative, with an over-use of nasty editing techniques—particularly freeze-frame).As well as displaying utter contempt for his intended audience, Mason also fails to deliver on a more superficial level: the movie's supposedly ultra-graphic outcome is quite bereft of satisfyingly nasty gore (there's loads of blood, but the film shies away from showing us too much juicy detail); and rather inexcusably, neither busty ex-Hollyoaks babe Elize du Toit nor tasty brunette Louise Griffiths get nekkid (du Toit strips down to her bra, but reveals nothing she hadn't already shown in the Sunday morning soap).When all is said and done, however, I should probably thank Adam Mason for making The Devil's Chair: now, rather than waste my time explaining exactly what it is that I loathe about much of today's horror output, I can simply point in the direction of this film and say 'there you go'.

moonpig82 I was pretty disappointed with this one. The story sounded interesting but after a poor beginning with ridiculous editing and 2 characters I couldn't really care less about I thought about switching it off. I stuck with it to the surprisingly good ending but I certainly wouldn't bother watching it again. I know horror movies are supposed to be far fetched and most of the time it is easy to forget how silly the plots can be but I couldn't do that with The Devil's Chair. I just couldn't believe that a man declared criminally insane and charged with murdering his girlfriend would be let out after just 4 years for a field trip back to the place where the murder is committed. And that 4 other people would voluntarily go with him. Oh and this place seems to be in the middle of nowhere. The acting is decent enough (although I did get distracted sometimes by the fact that the actor playing Nick resembles a potato). The special effects aren't bad either but the pacing is so slow. I really struggled to sit through the first hour. As well as it being boring in places, I found the narration really irritating. Especially when the picture would suddenly freeze and Nick would provide some comment. Were these supposed to be funny? Because they weren't. The only reason I rated it as high as 4/10 was because of the ending. The twist at the ending is predictable but that doesn't stop it being violent, gruesome and disturbing - exactly as horror should be. It was the only part of the movie that provoked a feeling in me other than boredom or irritation. It was pretty uncomfortable to sit through and watch and was extremely well done. But is it worth watching the movie just for the last 15 minutes? Personally I don't think so. If you are into blood and gore the movie delivers on that front but unfortunately not really on any other.