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It's 1969. The conflict in Viet Nam has exploded to immeasurable proportions, and 18-year-old Dean Hill¹s number is up. Dean's brother Eric, who has already seen his share of combat, plans to take Dea...( read more 
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MCT:July 4, 2008"From 1969 to 1973, the Hewitt family murdered thirty-three people across the state of Texas. To this day, it is universally considered the most notorious and brutally sadistic killing spree in the annals of American history: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is an additional inept Hollywood gore fest that endeavours to misrepresent itself as a terrifying horror flick. After all ideas for sequels have come and gone, Hollywood studios then move onto the prequels. The philosophy behind this prequel was ostensibly to inform the audience of the back-story of "Leatherface" (Bryniarski) who is the central serial killer in the series. Clearly, the motivation was to reveal why the cannibalistic family become the way they end up...what pushed them over the line? First of all, I must rip into the concept. Tobe Hooper's 1974 original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was absolutely petrifying because of the inability to understand the characters and their origins. Therefore with no palpable motivations, the characters are frightening. Thus revealing the genesis erases all mystery surrounding Leatherface and his family, and no longer do they possess a scary screen presence.
The second fatal flaw in the screenplay is not even fulfilling the concept! The first five minutes show Leatherface's birth, and then all of a sudden the central character is an adult chopping up meat just like he was in the predecessors. Cue the brainless, incompetently-minded characters travelling through Leatherface's region...prompt the rest of the sadistic family who are suddenly cannibals eating people, and the stage is set for a pointless rehash of the original films with a different slate of characters. This time, though, you can predict how it will end. We know the events that will unfold a few years later, thus these characters can't tell the tale to the authorities and uncover the mystery. Hence the villains won't get their comeuppance (there's no vengeance at all), and the audience are exposed to endless scenes of mindless torture.
I've basically described the film's plot, but I will elaborate further: Thomas Hewitt - a.k.a Leatherface - is born in a slaughterhouse in Texas and is abandoned in a dumpster. He is adopted into a family, and he grows up to become a worker at the same slaughterhouse. Then the slaughterhouse is closed down, with workers left unemployed. Many of the local inhabitants desert the area. The Hewitt family stays put, but are on the verge of starvation. Leatherface's deranged step-father executes the local sheriff, assumes his identity and begins running the town his cruel way. Two young couples then venture into the region and become hopelessly stranded. The Hewitt family wait...with an enormous assortment of torture tools on hand.
It's impossible to point out all the flaws evident in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. The main flaw is its nature of nothing but a mindless gore fest. The film has no problem with moving from one unnerving torture scene to the next, with blood and guts spurting all over the place: showing more inventive methods to kill a human. I know, I know - I'm supposed to praise the low-budget affair for creating an authentic atmosphere with realistic gore, blah, blah, blah! The impressive gore effects aren't a redeeming feature. As a matter of fact, there are no redeeming features at all! With all the misogynistic scenes depicting horrible torture and rape of girls, I wanted to walk out of my viewing area and keep on walking.
Tobe Hooper's original film wasn't a gore fest. There was barely any gore at all! It was scary because of what you didn't see. Of course, modern movie-goers apparently search for endless amounts of blood and gore. If it's present in action movies I usually devour the violence as it's realistic and in an intriguing context. In the context of torture it's just stupid. The film is also plagued with stupid characters and villains that are stereotyped as having the superhuman ability to pop up anywhere at any time whenever things have potential to look up for the protagonists. The film has zero scares. Instead of suspense and terror, we have lots of blood flow with an equal amount of guts. Speaking in terms of successful relentless horror flicks, something like Wolf Creek does better. Even though that's largely a relentlessly gory affair it has more skill and class. This is crap! Stupid, pretentious, tasteless crap! -
MCT:July 4, 2008One of the most worse horror-films at all time! This one is not that good at all, it's overwhelmed by short-sighted storytelling and it's just pointless.
It's neither as bad as it could have been, nor as interesting as it should have been is my view on it! No character, no commentary.
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MCT:July 2, 2008
Not as good as the first, but does answer some questions and gives an insight into the reasonings behind the Hewitt's madness and lifestyle.
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MCT:July 1, 2008Pretty much awesome. Probably the best prequel I've seen yet, except for Rob Zombie's Halloween. If you are a fan of the genre, you must see this one. It's awesome!
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MCT:June 25, 2008
Meh... blood and guts, attempts at disturbing themes that I found to be just over kill. The only scary part of this film were the unexpected loud noises. The actors were clearly casted based on their looks. They must have turned away people who were both good looking and good actors, because all four main characters were as two dimensional as it gets. Its all just cheap thrills with a poorly constructed, completely predictable, plot. And as always I'll point out: I'm not a fan of thrashers so if you are maybe you'll find some kind of worth to justify watching this movie.
Oh wait, all the protagonists die in the end. I'll admit I liked that element. I'll give it one star for that. Warning: Spoiler alert above.
Oh and for the record if you hit a cow in a jeep hard enough for it to explode, your car would disintegrate.
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GREENBOY94posted 65 days ago -
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From all the Texas chainsaw massacre this have to be the goriest & the least was the original which probably back in the 70's did look brutal now is more like a family movie compared to other horror films.
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What a fucking waste of money, not gory enough, story sucked, this is why people shouldn't make remakes they ruin the fun and intensity of the original and it didn't even fit well with the remake this was an excuse to make it more like the original, nothing beats the original inbred brothers with a good eye for beef if your going to watch any TCM movie watch the original 2 which are the ways the characters are supposed to be not some half assed kid who got picked on
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I think this movie was pretty good and it did actually scare me in some scenes. and it was also very gross but meh i rekon it had very good scares. i dunno why but it made me feel all weird wen i saw that biker chik hangin with no feet. yeh i find this movie very good compared to some of the other horror ones.
posted 454 days ago -
SUCKED. No scares or intensity at all. Just an awful script with the worst camera work I have ever seen.
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