![]() Texas Chainsaw Massacre (there’s no The this time), directed by David Blue Garcia and written by Chris Thomas Devlin, makes a similar choice to David Gordon Green’s 2018 Halloween. ![]() Now, with so many decades of Texas Chainsaw lore to sift through, every new entry must pick and choose what to keep and what to forget from prior films, rather than vying for narrative consistency. Those series have had plenty of nerdy fun trying to world-build around a masked murderer, but elaborating on the villain’s motivations typically steals the thunder from his fearsome mystery. Almost every cheaply made horror masterpiece that generated a whole cinematic universe (think Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and even Saw) had a lightning-in-a-bottle quality that proved impossible to imitate. Read: The newest Scream movie skewers fandom itself Since the first film’s release, eight more Texas Chainsaw films have appeared: three sequels that played to diminishing returns then a remake that spawned its own prequel then a 3-D sequel to the original, which led to another prequel and now Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the latest attempt to connect to the first film’s appeal. If it makes the kind of unforgettable impact that The Texas Chain Saw Massacre did, the follow-ups will never end. Of course, if a horror film is even a mild success, it cannot be left to stand alone eventually a sequel will follow, even if it’s direct-to-video schlock. Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film is as brutal today as it was decades ago because of its vérité style, which makes the viewing experience feel uncomfortably close to reality: sweaty and panic-inducing. Leatherface, a brutish, childlike member of the clan wearing a mask made of human skin, attacks them with a chainsaw (among other weapons). Some youths traveling through rural Texas come across a ramshackle house where a family of cannibals live. (Spoiler alert).The premise of the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre is, even by the short yardstick of the horror genre, quite simple. They may, however, be disappointed by the fact that Leatherface meets a gruesome fate at the film’s end, meaning that he will never, ever return. Texas Chainsaw Massacre doesn’t exactly offer anything new (2013’s Texas Chainsaw 3D, a previous attempt at a sequel to the original, at least featured more than one dimension), but gorehound fans who rejoice at watching people’s innards fall out of their bodies will find much to appreciate. Seeking revenge after nearly half a century, she grabs a shotgun and heads off in pursuit of her former tormentor, who, when they finally reunite, has the gall to not even recognize her. Sally, who frequently gazes at a faded Polaroid photo of her murdered friends, clearly hasn’t let bygones be bygones. The vividly rendered decapitations and eviscerations come across like the slasher-movie equivalent of an orgy.įans of the original film will welcome the reappearance of the sole survivor of Leatherface’s initial killing spree, Sally Hardesty, grippingly played by veteran Irish actress Olwen Fouere (Marilyn Burns, the original Sally, died in 2014). The body count quickly rises, the highlight being a massacre in a partygoer-filled bus in which director David Blue Garcia ( Tejano) truly lets his freak flag fly. It’s the first of many bloodbaths as Leatherface, retrieving his favorite chainsaw, goes after everyone who crosses his path. Leatherface quickly dispatches two policeman and one of the newcomers who had gone along for the ride, and resumes his former grooming habit by slicing the skin off his mother’s face to use as a mask. ![]() Which soon becomes evident when the old woman suffers a stroke and dies in a police van on the way to the hospital. ![]() Yes, and it’s also you-know-who, now much older but no less prone to homicidal range.
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