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caley

Jessica Biel's tanktop should have won best supporting actress.

12 years 11 months ago

As remakes go, this far exceeded my expectations. Then again, maybe it's just the fact that it was so much better than Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III and The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (AKA Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.)

Or maybe it's just Jessica Biel running around in a skimpy top. Yeah, that'll be it.

11 years 11 months ago

ChrisReynolds

Semi-effective remake. A lot of the tension is good, but too many modern horror cliches, and a pervasive excessiveness, work against it.

10 years 11 months ago

Sheillz

This movie is horrible, it really is,
Marcus Nispel is the worst director ever

12 years 4 months ago

the3rdman

Standing on its own, this is a decent slasher--competent, but nothing special. If Nispel and co. had applied this amount of effort to an original concept I think they could have turned in something relatively impressive. However, this remake doesn't hold a candle to the original. Hooper's surreal touches are sorely missed here; instead, Nispel seems determined to surpass the source material in relentlessness, tension and brutality, while missing the more subtle elements that elevated the original. Hooper's film touched on the economic issue of heartland American decline and its social detritus, as well as an interest in vegetarianism. Taken out of context in the contemporary climate of remakes, horror "franchises" and genre fanaticism, the film becomes more about the fascination with Leatherface's status as a horror "icon," and naturally that means he becomes the focus of this more character-driven Texas Chainsaw. As such, he gets significantly more screen time, not to mention a paper-thin back-story as a tortured child with a degenerative skin disease. It would be hard to describe the original film as overtly political, but it fits squarely into a post-Vietnam American turn towards self-examination, looking for the heart of darkness and finding it in the rotting core of capitalist industry and American traditionalism. In the remake, evil is a more personal matter, perhaps appropriate in a post-Columbine America; but this puts Leatherface into the role of a more conventional franchise villain, with all the cliches that go along with that label. And audiences, it seems, are expected to be primarily interested in seeing the variety of ways in which Leatherface can dispatch the rest of the cast, rather than to consider his symbolic significance for instance.
On a lesser note, I also found the Sheriff to be a poor, cartoonish character, likewise drawing from all the cliches of the southern lawman we have seen in countless other incarnations. He seemed to fit poorly with the grim and intense tone of the film.

8 years 6 months ago

Ferneu

Jessica Biel [homer drool/]

3 years 6 months ago

Marcus Fenix

Spoiler Alert

Was it the most stupid movie I have ever seen? Maybe. Was it the most unrealistic $..ity movie ever? Definitely yes. So, you cut off the assholes arm, he is literally defenseles, what do you do? And remember this is the guy who killed all your friends. You run away you Retard! You have the guy in the freezer, there is only one door, what do you do? You Runaway again you Dumbass. You are on an open road, what you do? Run towards the next town and hope to find help? No, you run back in the jungle you nim-wit. Feels stupid to watch a "Human" running miles and miles in this movie with a Chainsaw which weighs alot! This dude better be Hulk. And how the fu... Can someone saw your arm off and you still live with no medical assistance? This is literally and Insult to every shred of knowledge. Stay as farrrrr as possible from this pile of junk, and this sentence is written by a Horror movie fan.

3 years 9 months ago

Dr. McNinja

Decent remake.

11 years 4 months ago

Toastinator

A suprisingly decent remake.

2 years 3 months ago

Lycas666

I haven't seen the orginal (yet) but I have to say, I love the amount of detail. It really elevates the film over the slasher genre into the southern gothic. Ofc. There were some clichés but that is forgiveable for a 2003 movie.

6 years 6 months ago

nick121235

Not as bad as I expected. At least it wasn't as bad as the remakes of FT13 and ANOES.

7 years 3 months ago

thestaulker

It might not be as good as it's original, But it's still really F'd up. and a nice transition from it's son "The Beginning"

12 years 1 month ago

bartleby187

Underrated remake

12 years 5 months ago