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Released
2010 · FILM

Chain Letter

“If you don't forward it, you die.”

Directed by
Deon Taylor
Written by
Deon Taylor, Michael J Pagan
Runtime
96 min
HorrorMystery

Synopsis

Six friends receive a mysterious chain letter through text messaging and their email accounts from a maniac who is hunting down teenagers who fail to forward his online chain letter. They soon learn they should take the threats in the chain letter seriously, and that chain letters using the teens' favorite technologies to track them can be deadly. This maniacal game pits friend against friend as they race to beat rules that seem impossible to escape. Break the chain, lose a life. Do you pass it on? Does friendship mean anything?

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How many hands made this film

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Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by James CoblentzShot by Philip LeeScored by Vincent GilliozDesigned by George Goodridge

Box Office

2010 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$143K

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$143K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $139K

Peak 406 theaters

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