Two brothers and their girlfriends are kidnapped by a sadistic
sheriff and his cannibal family while on a road trip through Texas. HORROR
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The Texas Chainsaw
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is the film that answers the questions nobody was ever asking, including "How did the Full Metal Jacket guy become a sheriff?" and "Was Leatherface adopted?" This film is just one of many horrendous entries in this franchise that is anchored by one great horror classic and a fair horror remake. Everything else connected to those two movies is basically garbage, and this one is no exception. If I want to watch 30-year-olds play teenagers with a death wish, I'll go rewatch the Scream franchise. At least Wes Craven tries to make it interesting.
As usual, the forgettable cast sports one blatantly obvious female survivor lead and a host of cannon fodder. Just once I'd like one of these films to have a tolerable cast, if only so I care the slightest bit when they are brutally torn apart with a chainsaw. In the gore department, this film excels. Unfortunately, that's not where story points come from. This film, like a majority of the Texas Chainsaw franchise, has no plot. It just took the worst characters of the 2003 remake and tried to tell their story, despite the fact that nobody was interested. I guess, when you tally it all up, my biggest issue with this film is that it really doesn't need to exist in the first place. It's a miracle that this didn't kill the franchise, but I suppose that as long as people are willing to watch bad actors get slaughtered, there'll be someone to make the same movie over and over again. It's a formula that brings in a decent amount of cash. I don't think these films are worth getting excited over anymore, even for horror fans like myself. We all know what's it's gonna be about. Hell, we even know what the ending's gonna be. It's been the same since 1974 and it doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon. |