What else do I say except that this review may contain some
spoilers. Texas Chainsaw is
supposed to a horror film set around the events of the very first film back
from 1974. The first film was a
classic horror film, relying on the scares and the suspense to frighten the
viewer; there was almost no blood and almost everything happened
off-screen. How does a studio
release a follow-up 39 years afterward?
Do you start from scratch and imply what happened prior or do you show
what happens moments after the first film ends? The film opens up reminding you
of the events of the Tobe Hooper classic and kicks off from there. From there I immediately fell in love
with it. I loved how the film was
daring enough to implement a sequel to a film nearly forty years old when the
target audience only knows about the one with Jordanna Brewster? But my love for the film died faster
that many of the victims by the hand of Leatherface.
Remember when I called the film daring? I lied. The film opens up with the last minutes of the first film,
which completely disregards the ‘real’ sequels. Thom Barry plays the local sheriff who tries to bring
Leatherface into custody. However,
an angry mob storms in and burns the Sawyer house to the ground leaving only
three people alive: Loretta Sawyer, her daughter, and Leatherface, though
everyone thinks he’s deceased. Blah,
blah, blah, her daughter grows up oblivious to what happened to her, something
happens and she meets Leatherface.
Oh, and the leader of the angry mob is now the mayor. Yeah, I know.
The death scenes in the movie are not great but some sight
gags will make few turn away.
Leatherface cuts a face off of a guy, cuts a guy in half, stabs a guy
with a meat hook, cuts some dudes legs off and even cuts off some guys
head. But each one is done with
some form of CGI blood, the worst kind of blood for a movie. The direction is god-awful with
gratuitous low camera angles to show off an actress’s bosom. And it occurs more than once. It’s not that I had a problem with it,
but it was distracting. I’m trying
to get scared but I was just staring at booty.
The cinematography could’ve been done by a drunk
monkey. Horror film? Ok, throw in
some brown, gray, lots of shadows, and make sure that each shot has no depth to
it.
Do I really need to discuss the acting? Also, the film is really torn between
who we should root for to win. The
mayor is the bad guy but what about Leatherface? The two are going at it but why do the filmmaker’s insist
that we root for the psychopath especially when violence in films is the newest
hot button issue? I didn’t like
the film at all, no matter how many times the film tried to redeem itself.
P.S. The 3D is post conversion so stay clear away from it.
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