![]() Loosely inspired by real-life serial killer Ed Gein, it recounts the grisly ordeal of Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns), her wheelchair-bound brother Franklin (Paul A. Hooper’s sophomore directorial outing is an unforgettably inventive work of malevolence, combining grubby, sunburnt 16mm visuals, ragged and spiraling staging and editing, and a mean streak a mile wide to create a borderline-hallucinatory descent into mayhem. To comprehend the folly of these follow-ups, it’s vital to first revisit the source. How 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' Got Made. ![]() ![]() It's laughable in the worst way and makes no attempt to be scary. Here, there are oceans of gratuitous blood for no reason. It didn't need to, due to its horrifying atmospherics inside that house and excellent direction from Tobe Hooper. Also, the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre was indeed scary as hell and emoted a ton of terror without barely using a drop of blood. Nobody thought it was possible but the filmmakers made it so. The other funny element to this agitating sequel is that the Franklin character this time around lasts longer than anyone would like and is more annoying than the original Franklin ever could be. A genuine waste of a beloved character and story arc. But instead of making a steel cage match between the two or really focusing the film on her, Sally (this time played by Olwen Fouere filling in for the late great Marilyn Burns) only serves as a side note leading to one of the cheesiest and blandest showdowns of all time. Meanwhile, just like Sarah Connor in T2 or Laurie Strode in the new Halloween films, the surviving Sally from the original film has become an ultimate badass Texas Ranger and is looking to face off with Leatherface once and for all. Bluntly, the characters and the film are just mean-spirited through and through. They are quick to act and judge and never learn their lesson. These millennials who come upon this Texas town are rude, entitled, and pay no mind to history or the people who are still living there. If there was any political or social commentary on this travesty of a film, it's in this beat of the movie where Leatherface takes his chainsaw to cancel culture. Conveniently, all of the hipsters' potential investors arrive in town via bus, which is just in time for some gas-fueled carnage. But after an argument about her eviction with the meddling millennials, she croaks and Leatherface reverts to his old self. Her roommate is Leatherface, who has seemingly become a decent human being for the last fifty years. This tenant is an old sickly lady (the Borg goddess herself Alice Krige) who ran an orphanage over the years. Is it that difficult to make a character who is likable and worth rooting for? Not for these filmmakers.Īs the group arrives in this creepy ghost town, their efforts to gentrify it into a hipster village go awry when one tenant is still living in one of the buildings. Every single character in this new Texas Chainsaw Massacre film is just awful where anyone who spends more than sixty seconds with them will wish for their bloody demise. The upsetting part about this film and a lot of other horror movies are how the writers make no attempt in creating characters who are worthy of surviving a horror movie. Now it seems like a small group of very young social media influencers wants to leave the big "bad" city of Austin and start a new life in the middle of nowhere rural Texas in this abandoned town with other like-minded millennials. The film cuts to the present day after a local documentary is airing a promo on television about those murders with a special cameo narrator. This is supposed to be a direct sequel after the original film, which saw the young blonde Sally escaping with Leatherface chasing her with his chainsaw. It's a bland, unoriginal, and lifeless attempt to do something creative and its end result is less than thrilling or fun. It seems like both Garcia and Devlin both watched the 2018 Halloween sequel from Blumhouse and took that same exact plotline and put it into Texas Chainsaw Massacre, where some decades later, the main movie monster, in this case, it's Leatherface, comes out of hiding, kills new people, and comes face to face with the one who got away. This new film was based on a story from Fede Alvarez (Of the Evil Dead remake and Don't Breathe fame), but later written by Chris Thomas Devlin and directed by David Blue Garcia, both of whom aim to make their stamp with this latest franchise entry.
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