Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Bill Glover I was on the fence whether I should vote 4 or 5 on this. While this horror flick is interesting and has some good effects in regard to the chair itself it definitely lacks in some areas around acting and story. (For example, the main character is in an asylum. He's released to a professor who wants to write a book on what happened when Nick's girlfriend was killed. Probably not such a smart idea.) However, the lead actor, Andrew Howard, really is the lynch pin that keeps the movie together. If he hadn't been as good in the lead role I would definitely have rated this lower. He enables the movie to have enough interest for you to want to see it through to the end. There is the usual blood and guts but overall it happens in the right places and isn't done without advancing the story. If you're a fan of B horror I think that you'd like this. If you only watch horror occasionally I'd pass on this one.

Coventry I have a lot of sympathy and respect for the duo Simon Boyes and Adam Mason, because they write and direct – at a relatively high tempo, I may add – horror films that are at least somewhat "wayward" without necessarily obeying to the public's mainstream demands of remakes, teen slashers and lousy sequels. Their movies certainly aren't groundbreaking or highly innovative, but they do appeal to die-hard and experienced fans of the genre because they're brutal, grim and thoroughly sinister. Their film "Broken" is still my favorite, as it's a rudimentary but very disturbing survival movie, and I really liked the quirky atmosphere of "Blood River". "Pig" I merely found a pointless effort and I haven't seen "Luster" yet. "The Devil's Chair" is a downright terrific movie throughout two-thirds of the running time! The film opens like an interesting throwback to old-school asylum horror and gradually shifts into a clever and ultra-macabre supernatural monster movie, reminiscent of the brilliant "Hellraiser" I & II, with extremely brutal violence and enormously grim set pieces. Adam Mason's regular lead protagonist Andrew Howard (who looks a lot like a lesser muscular clone of Jason Statham) stars as junkie Nick West who, together with his blond bimbo girlfriend intrudes an abandoned mental institution for a wild night of sex and drugs. The find a creepy death chair in one of the rooms and suddenly, without properly realizing what triggered it, the girl is trapped and tortured in the chair before vanishing entirely. With his criminal record and pockets full of dope, Nick naturally gets convicted for murder and, because of his crazy stories, institutionalized for four years. He's released by Dr. Willard and politely forced to return to the place of the horror, along with the Doctor himself and a couple of his students. Supposedly for a psychology study, but Willard actually other sinister things in mind, as he discovered that Nick spoke the truth and the chair is actually an invention from a formerly acclaimed scientist who created a device to separate the soul from the body. "The Devil's Chair" is tense, compelling and contains some of the grisliest ambiance and imagery that I've seen in the past decade. The asylum's interior truly looks nightmarish and also the titular chair is an effectively unsettling piece of scenery. When set in motion, it turns into a diabolical killing machine and I wouldn't advise squeamish people to watch that process. The acting performances are more than decent, the pacing is fast, and there are a few nifty details that also contribute to the entertainment value of the film, like Nick West's brief but often very witty voice-over narration in between the regular dialogs. It's a very good and horrifying horror flick with a plot, atmosphere and a fantastic monster to boot. But then … and I wish I didn't have to write these final words. The plot undergoes a very bizarre and abrupt metamorphosis and gone is all of a sudden the carefully built up intrigue and plausible morbidity. Did Boyes and Mason run out of inspiration? Where they bored and/or fed up with the direction the movie was heading? Did they want to do something totally unexpected and experimental? No idea, but all I know is that – for me personally – the movie suddenly lost all my admiration and praise. Perhaps it's just me and my miserable intellect, as I encountered several reviews stating that the twist was sheer genius. You decide.

oneguyrambling Nick West is a bald (slightly ugly) guy with a boxer's mug and a potty mouth. Nick West has been accused of murdering his girlfriend in an abandoned mental institution.Nick West wants you to know the full story, and he is here to tell it… for the better part of 90 loooong minutes.We see the full version of the initial events, the two twenty-somethings very much in lurrrrve wandering around the vacant and run down facility. We see them come across the old electric chair. We see the twosome taking turns sitting in the chair while t'other performs acts of lurrrrve on them. We see the straps inexplicably clamp down on the young woman before various drills and metal protrusions create new orifices (orifii?) where there were none before – and where no orifice should rightly be. We see the aftermath of the butchered and eviscerated young woman. No longer pretty.We see Nick West in the asylum for the criminally insane, his home of the four years elapsed since the unpleasantness.Nick West has come to terms with the fact that he simply must've committed the dark deeds some four years prior. After all what else could it have been? A magic electric chair? A usually inanimate portal to another evil dimension? Or is Nick West just f*cking batsh*t crazy? It is because of this realisation that Nick West is released from the institution; on the condition that he allow a psychiatrist Dr Willard access to tell his fascinating story.After begrudgingly agreeing Nick West, Dr Willard, 2 psych students (1 hottie, 1 w*nker) and Dr Willard's hottie assistant head off to spend a night in the scene of the… whatever. On the first night the good Dr sheds light into the facilities' dark past spanning many decades.Then… stuff happens. Nasty stuff.Stuff with lots of screaming.Stuff with lots of blood.Stuff with lots of gore.Stuff with lots of profanity (including more usage of the C word than I can recall in one film).Stuff with lots of Nick West.Stuff without much of my interest.I'll give The Devil's Chair some points for trying. It had what I guess was a twist – even though realistically there was only about three possible ways that this could have turned out – at least once they chose that 'way' they went for it.The voice-over started before we even saw anything on screen. And never stopped. I grew tired of hearing from Nick West and about Nick West. Within 10 minutes I had my three possibilities and spent the next 10 minutes waiting for which one they would go with – and unlike The Sixth Sense it wasn't the fourth option of three. What remains is a nasty little piece of work with little entertainment value, few surprises and not much new or different to bring to the table. Or Chair as it were.Final Rating – 5 / 10. I have seen Nick West. I have heard his story. That was 2 nights ago though. It is now forgotten. The ultimate 'meh' horror movie.

trashgang Not knowing of how good this film is due to unknown reasons I was glad that a good creep of mine was glad to offer me this flick. so without any expectations I plugged it into the DVD player. First impression, yes, it's an English production, independent and with the dialect I love. Second impression, God, what's all this in the first 11 minutes. Screaming and blood all over the place. And the fun part was with the editing, just freeze it and have a voice over by the so called killer. When there is a twist in the story line you hear him say, "didn't expect that ay". So far the funny part. I agree, after a while when persons sitting in the so called Devil's chair and disappear it's all a bit odd. But after a while you will see that it had his purpose. There is blood and gore all over the movie and once the psycho gets unhinged it's all about the red stuff. It even didn't bother me that you don't see some killings in camera but the impression on the killer's face is so weird. Was I glad that I have seen this great flick. Sadly I have to give it back to him, you bastard, but I will definitely buy my uncut version.