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The Devil's Chair

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The Devil's Chair
Directed byAdam Mason
Written byAdam Mason
Simon Boyes
Produced byNadja Brand
Eric M. Breiman
Patrick Ewald
StarringOlivia Hill
Eric M. Breiman
Gary Mackay
Louise Griffiths
Elize du Toit
Matt Berry
Nadja Brand
Polly Brown
David Gant
Andrew Howard
Graham Riddell
CinematographyOle Bratt Birkeland
Edited byHasse Billing
Distributed byRenegade Worldwide
Release date
  • 12 September 2007 (2007-09-12) (Toronto International Film Festival)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£150,000[1]

The Devil's Chair is a 2007 British horror film. It premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.

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Hey guys, we are at Lake Helen-Cassadaga Cemetery in Florida and let's take a look this fabulous urban legend called the Devil's chair. According to Local Legend, this chair was built for Satan himself and the Prince of Darkness descend here at midnight. Now, if you dare sit on this chair any time after dark, you will hear the devil whisper evil things into your ears. If you leave an ice cold beer on this chair, what's inside the bottle will be gone the next morning without the cap being removed. Now, if you are so bold to visit the next day and sit on this chair again, you will see Satan appear before you at midnight within the next 7 days. Again, these are all unconfirmed stories that circulate among local teens. You can see that this a nice cemetery but if you look around you will see 3 similar chairs constructed, so it can get a little confusing to find the right one. But the Devil's chair has some special features. One, the tombstones or headstones that are supposed to face outside are actually facing the chair. This is very strange, but I'll explain this later. If you look at the other memorials you will see that the inscriptions are all facing outside. The second feature is that you will see graffiti on this chair like Lucifer, Devil, etc. Now, I have done some digging and found out the real story about the Devil's chair. By the end of this video, I hope you will agree with me that the real story of Devil's chair is actually much better than the urban legends. In 1926, a 90 year old man lost his wife and his unmarried daughter in a fire accident. He was devastated and when he built the memorial he also built this chair, so he could sit and mourn. In fact, chairs like these are found all over the western world and are called mourning chairs. Now, unlike others who gradually move on, this old man would come in and basically sit here from dawn to dusk. The reason why he had the names carved inside is because he could look at them while sitting on the chair. Locals say that he had no relatives and lived alone in a big house, so he was basically holding on to his dead family. As months went by, people started rumors about this poor old man and some people would even mock him. After about a year, on Halloween night, two teenagers spotted the Old Man sitting on this chair and crying. This happened about 11 o'clock at night, and remember: Halloween tradition was just starting in the United States at that time. These teenagers thought the old man had lost it, so they contacted the police. But they were surprised to learn that he had passed away a few days before. So what did the teenagers really see? Did they see the spirit of the old man still mourning or did they see the Devil? I hope you liked this video, I am finding a lot of intriguing stuff like this so, please do subscribe to my channel. Thank you for watching and talk to you soon.

Plot

The film begins with Nick West lighting a cigarette in the dark and introducing himself to some unknown audience. He proceeds to recount the events he allegedly witnessed, claiming to be a "victim". It is implied that the whole story is told exclusively through his point of view.

Nick brings Sammy to the abandoned Blackwater Asylum to use acid and have sex. They find a weird chair and Nick proposes using it during sex; however the device traps and kills Sammy. Nick is arrested and considered insane, being sentenced to the Hildon Mental Institute in spite of claiming that supernatural forces killed Sammy. Four years later, Cambridge professor Dr. Willard proposes Nick's psychiatrist, Dr. Clairebourne (Nadja Brand), release him under his custody for an experimental treatment: exposing the truth to Nick by bringing him back to the crime scene. Clairebourne opposes, explaining that Nick still has severe delusions, but in the end she accepts. Nick is introduced to Willard, who expresses his desire to write a book about West and his experiences. Willard assumes full responsibility for Nick and alongside his assistant Melissa, and the students Rachel Fowles and Brett Wilson, they return with Nick to the Blackwater Asylum.

Nick begins to feel uneasy when the group enter the asylum, but a sympathetic Rachel tells him that he can leave tomorrow morning if he wants to, promising she won't tell the doctor. The group find the infamous chair. Willard reveals that the asylum warden was known to practice highly controversial methods of treatment. The night nears and Willard tells everyone to go to sleep to have a fresh start tomorrow. In private, he confesses to Nick that the book he wants to write isn't actually about Nick, but about the chair. He admits to believing that Nick's "hallucinations" were actually real events. Willard shows him the warden's journal, from which he learned about the chair: it was used to test the warden's theory about the existence of the human soul. Nick becomes seemingly disturbed, as he says he actually came to believe he killed Sammy, but now isn't sure anymore.

As Nick is trying to sleep, he is approached by Rachel, who wants to prove to him that there is nothing supernatural about the chair. As she sits on it, she accidentally triggers the chair's controls and disappears. She is shown to have been transported into a dark building, where she is hunted by a demonic creature. Melissa persuades a skeptical Brett to sit in the chair, after which she triggers it, sending Brett into the same place as Rachel. Nick then willingly uses the chair to transport himself, believing he can save Rachel. The doctor and Melissa are shown to have plotted this all along. The events unfold quickly as Willard betrays Melissa, forcing her into the chair. He then transports himself. The group reunites as Rachel struggles against the creature. With the rest of the group incapacitated, the doctor subdues Nick and chants incantations, hoping to turn the beast to his side; however, Nick fights him off and, smiling, says that it is he who controls the Demon. It is revealed that the chair itself and the demonic forces were just a product of Nick's imagination. It becomes evident that Nick assaulted the students and the doctor in the asylum, killing Brett. He then proceeds to rape Rachel and kill the doctor and Melissa. Lastly, he kills Rachel as she tries to escape.

After the massacre, a bloodied Nick gets into the car and chats with a woman who looks like Rachel sitting inside, asking her if she minds driving off with a "crazy person". She smiles and kisses him. However, the scene is then revealed to be another of Nick's hallucinations and he is then seen driving away from the asylum alone.

Score

Original music composed by Zoë Keating and Mortiis.

Production

Filming took place at RAF Upwood, a derelict airbase near Ramsey in Cambridgeshire.

Reception

The Devil's Chair received mixed reviews from critics. Dennis Harvey called the film "dumb sensationalism" in a Variety review.[2] David Nusair of ReelFilm.com wrote that it was "a sporadically interesting but mostly interminable little horror flick".[3]

Brendan Willis in a review for Exclaim! wrote that the film was "intelligent and entertaining horror movie".[4] Daniel Hadley of AddictedtoHorrorMovies.com found the film "criminally underrated".[5]

References

  1. ^ Walker, Johnny (1 October 2015). Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society. Edinburgh University Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-0748689743.
  2. ^ Harvey, Dennis (19 September 2007). "The Devil's Chair". Variety. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  3. ^ Nusair, David. "2007 TIFF Update #9 - Reviews by David Nusair". www.reelfilm.com. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  4. ^ "The Devil's Chair Adam Mason". exclaim.ca. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  5. ^ Hadley, Daniel (29 October 2016). "'The Devil's Chair' is Criminally Underrated (Review)". Addicted to Horror Movies. Retrieved 12 July 2020.

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