Those Halloween movies he made always seemed a bit weird to me when I was younger until now… poor guy just wanted to make a TCM-looking thing all along!
“Try anything and you’re canceled bro” I wish someone told that to the writer and director of this film. Also “shouldn’t they be out eating ass” is better than any piece of dialogue in this movie.
Even worse about them throwing out the Old Lady and getting her killed is that the dude finds out later that he doesn't have the deed and she was 100% telling thet ruth about having the paper to prove she owns the house, so they dragged an old lady out of her home without bothering to check if they had it right. Alos, I'm wondering if the writers just forgot the Cannibal Family existed since the intro makes no mention of them and the survivor solely credits Leatherface despite interacting with the family.
@@awilson816aw Me neither. The lame ass trailer turned me off from watching this at all. Between the copying of Halloween 2018's plot points and the stupid "Do anything and you're canceled bro" line I said screw this. Just let this series die already.
None of that made any sense. "The bank" foreclosed on the property months ago, as said by our protagonist. The cops told her to vacate "weeks ago" in another scene. And then they forcibly removed her as if she's been evicted. But if she actually still has the deed, how was the bank, and apparently courts, wrong about it??!!! That just doesn't happen. Also, the scene where she finds the deed is laughable. As if she had one of those beeping proximity finders. Maybe the deed had an Apple Tag on it. Took her 30 seconds searching in a room that was set up to have secrets she could have (should have) discovered. Remember when "momma" said to Leatherface as she was dying, "stay out of my room". This movie is terrible. Gore good. Everything else, bad.
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@@HiGuyII He could have fixed that tiny mistake in editing. He could have had an asterisk appear on screen with the words " I mean his mother's face" when he incorrectly said it was a cop's face. Attention to detail should be important to a reviewer of entertainment.
@@dannyknightblade4592 I think the reason he wore his mom’s face was to pay homage to Ed Gein who tried to become his mother by wearing female skin and dancing in it, makes sense.
I must’ve said “this is surprisingly good” AND “this is a horrendous piece of shit” 100 times throughout this movie. There’s some really cool ideas in this and it was definitely better than I thought but we so desperately need a good TCM again it’s insane
I don't think we do need a new TCM. The original was one and done, it was complete, it needed no sequels. It certainly doesn't need these modern sequels that are checking what other, better, movies are doing and then swiping it.
I saw someone on twitter say it would've had a better post credit scene if Bill Mosely as Chop Top came out of the original house at the ending. Goes to show that I got more hyped at some Twitter speculation than i ever did for this movie.
Seriously, why do they never consider bringing back Mosely as Chop Top? Are they not aware of how much the fanbase enjoyed the character? If they just made a TCM film that had the same style as black comedy horror fun as 2 and other horror films of that era, I'm sure it'd be a more fun experience.
@@DeathofInk exactly. I was mildly annoyed we never got info on what happened to Drayton and Gramps but they would be long dead by 2022 so it wasn’t THAT big a deal for this movie. If they continue this timeline Chop Top could still be alive and out of jail since he would’ve been in Nam during the first movie/criminal investigation of the family.
What I hate about new Tcm movies is the incessant need to make leather face into the sole killer, and I think I know why. Leather face is the most iconic part of this series, and horror is built on having 1 crazy guy running around killing people, not a family. You don’t see toy grandpa’s hammer in stores, you see toy leather faces chainsaws, so they’ve completely misunderstood the character and what made him complex just to have people see the poster in the movie theater and say “Hey, there’s that guy with the chainsaw, let’s go see that”
You couldn't be more accurate. And this is what made the original TCM so good. It wasn't a straight slasher horror. It was far more of a psychological horror. Far more disturbing than a maniac with a chainsaw was the family that created that monster. How some appeared almost normal and caring, only to lure victims into their impending doom. The insanity of that dinner scene. THAT was the disturbing part of what made the original (and the remake, to some degree) work so well. Making Leatherface into Jason doesn't work. They've tried it over and over and over. For all the flaws that TCM: Next Generation has, at least they got the characters right and the insanity of 'the family' right. Leatherface is like the big, barking dog held at bay with a big chain. Ultimately under the control of its master family, and let loose when needed. He's not a raging homicidal murderer. He's a tool. Just as the chainsaw is a tool for the tool.
I think the face he wore was that of his caretaker, not one of the cops. Bugs me they never explain how Leatherface went from living in his home with his Brothers and Grandfather to living in an orphanage. It pains me that no studio seems to know how to portray Leatherface and his family right anymore. As much as I would love a new film that did the original justice, maybe even get Bill Moseley to return as Chop Top, I agree that it probably would be for the best if they put the franchise to bed. If they honestly can't get the themes or characters right anymore, best they should just give it up.
My best guess is he arrived at the orphanage either because he never returned home at the ending of the original movie. Maybe from shame or fear of failing to get Sally and being punished by his family. Since every did fear them from the abuse. *shrug*
They won't give it up. The Texas Chainsaw name is too lucrative to just let it sit there. They know even if little effort is put into these films, there is an audience who will check it out just because of the title. Look how much praise this is getting for some reason.
@@GrayWolf5000 I don't know how that name could be lucrative when all they're getting is diminishing returns. Unless someone has a very original idea or reinterpretation, this franchise should just end. I've deliberately avoided most of the movies besides the original and the 2003 remake because most are laughably bad, although some have their moments.
The second they mentioned how they were driving for hours and hours and 100's of miles to a desolated isolated town in the middle of nowhere, ... in a Tesla! I could tell that this movie was going to be braindead. Like how did they plan on getting home or charging their car? Also dude, the mask that Leatherface is wearing is the old woman's face, it's not a Cops face.
My biggest issue with the film is that It didn't know what it wanted to be. At moments the film wanted to take itself seriously and be seen as this worthy follow up to the original. On the other hand, it felt like it wanted to be a parody of modern America with their portrayal of millenials, cancel culture, and Anti-Gun views in a film thats biggest character growth is a girl getting over her fear of guns and using one to defend herself🤦🤦🤦
Seriously for some reason it’s a pet pevee of mine that many people keep saying my generation gen z is millennials when they are again pushing 40 and youngest are in their 30s
From the moment the cop got his hand crushed in a cartoon fashion in the back of the van, i knew we were in for a goofy ridiculous ride *smh* . Also when people had the chance to finish leatherface off they decided to either just stare blankly at him like dummies or they just tap him gently .Sally's character was a waste of time and energy and was a huge insult to the original sally from the first movie .
Some revenge driven Texas Ranger Sally turned out to be. Had Leatherface at basically point blank range, lets him pick up the chainsaw, leave the room, walk down the stairs and out the front door into the street. All because he didn't remember her.
Also, why would he remember her? He never learned her name, and the family views those people as meat do there's no reason for him to remember her 😭 Like, it was a pretty big deal when Sally realized these people didn't see her as a person, and she was not his only victim he's probably killed so many people, she is nothing special 😭
Sally wasn't like Laurie Strode (mainly because she came first, but that's not the point) - she was never able to fight back, or win, or learn something. Like you said, she was just content to survive, proving that the kind of terrifying shit she and her friends went through could happen to anyone without any rhyme or reason. Turning her into a shotgun-wielding badass out for revenge was the result of someone looking at Halloween 2018 and getting dollar signs in their eyes.
Hate to be that guy but I thought Leatherface cut the foster home mother’s face off to wear. It’s why he was putting on makeup and checking out how he’d look in her dress. Also Sally found her corpse later with no face. 🤷🏻♂️
It's supposed to be another reference to Ed Gein, who basically inspired half of the great horror villains (Norman Bates, Leatherface and his family, Buffalo Bill, even Jason Voorhees to some degree). Gein made skin suits out of women after the death of his mother. But the filmmakers somehow didn't seem to understand that Leatherface's masks are meant to show his current mental state and he treated his deceased grandmother's body with an incredible amount of care and respect. Leatherface would never take the face of a family member.
You legit nailed my issue with this movie that I couldn't articulate until now. This seems to be the issue with a lot of these 'elevated' horror movies. Forced social commentary is unnecessary when the movie deserves simplicity because that's what made the originals great; especially when the forced social commentary is haphazardly thrown about. TCM didn't need to have a "Halloween 2018/Kills-style" take.
The new scream did a really good job mocking that. The state of requels, elevated horror and their clashing with traditional horror/slashers. Feels to me like scream is the most consistent horror franchise out there. it's only real major dud was 3, and even that's enjoyable to an extent; although I cannot speak on the quality of the TV show, but I heard really like the first few seasons
Social commentary can work if it's more subtle. The flag COULD have worked if, after they got there, he just noticed it hanging somewhere and he could emote all we need to know from just the look on his face about how there are still places that need to evolve. Writing a whole plot point around that flag was a waste of time that could have been spent on plot and character development. Also, the anti-gun/pro-gun struggle hit the audience harder on the head than Leatherface's sledge in that one scene. Writing. I guess it's hard. (No, it really isn't)
For real. Melody being a jerk to Richter to “stand up for” her sister just because he was carrying a gun was dumb. I felt like they really wanted us to root for Melody like “gotcha”, but even Lila, who is the school survivor, was like “dude shut up what are you doing?” The one who didn’t even have a traumatic experience with guns was more anti-gun than the shooting survivor lmao. Not only that, but Richter was sympathetic to Lila and didn’t jus call her “LIBERAL SNOWFLAKE” or whatever. Man Melody was a douchebag. Lila, Richter, and Sally were the only characters I wasn’t rooting for Leatherface to kill.
I remember watching the original as a kid and I thought it was base on a real serial killer called leatherface and it scare the hell out of me. My problem with these new Texas chainsaw massacre movies is that they are too gory and from what I remember in the original there was hardly any of that. It was more about the atmosphere and the family that creep me out.
@@joeljohnson6137 they didnt have to change it up that defeats the point of what it is, they didnt even need to remake it at all Just because the killer is iconic doesnt mean you can just take him out the othet elements that made him iconic and expect it to still work
@@c_2279 people need change. It would feel like a dragged rerun keeping it the same where it's constantly abt his deranged family. Leatherface is a icon now.
And yet TCM 2 did that in the first 10 minutes after the opening credits and that movie kept being awesome; plus TCM had the effects work of effects wizard Tom Savini as well
That was not a cop that was his mother's face because when he's sitting down in her room he's trying to put makeup on the face because he thinks that she needs to have makeup on even though he's wearing her face
But wouldn't making them specifically from Austin suggest that the diversity of Texans is "good liberals" in Austin and "bad conservatives" EVERYWHERE else? Still feels too on the nose political.
I really enjoyed the kills, felt more realistic-eyes crying etc. But at least a bunch of (insert gen here) got slaughtered and the world isn’t much worse for the wear
@Green Fool that's what I've been saying. People have been going on about the kills and gore and how they make this one stand out but even in the other films there's been stuff that's looked as good and better than what's in here.
"Try anything and you're canceled, bro." All I can think of is what the hell did that guy think was gonna happen? That Leatherface was gonna be like "OH NO! CANCELED?!!" and then just bolt out of the bus flailing his arms in the air and screaming like a girl?
They could have replaced Sally with Stretch from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Stretch would be a better fit for the roll Sally played in this movie and the actress who played stretch is still alive at a cool 64 years old.
I agree with you doc. Leatherface killed out of defense or manipulated by his family. In this movie he again became a killing machine like you said jason or Micheal. Plus the main characters were just crappy people.
I agree with everything you said except calling the kids millennials 😂 this is peak Gen Z. They’re gonna cancel you, bro It’s a little better if you watch it thinking the kids are the villains and Leatherface is the protagonist, just protecting his property and avenging his Mama. That’s how I look at it anyway
@Sierra Cindrell. I don’t think people realise how young Gen Z are, they are barely in their 20’s and most of them are teenagers and children. Gen Z are 22 and younger, Gen Z were born from September 1999 to August 2019. Gen Y/Millennials are between 23 and 37, we are the last generation of the 20th Century, Gen Y/Millennials were born between September 1984 to August 1999.
I was on this movie before it came out, and when I heard about the og director leaving cause of creative differences as well as it being recieved so bad it was dumped on netflix. I was terribly concern, and I was right. The only good things are the gore, cinematography, and the actor who played Leatherface had the right build. But the negatives outway the positive, character development are started and forgotten, social commentary are like bullet points, no explanation on how Leatherface met the old lady, and the pacing is rushed.
The CGI gore really took me out of the movie. I liked some of the more simple kill effects but after a while it was just gratuitous CGI blood and guts every 20 seconds. Do directors not realize shoving dismemberment in our faces every minute COMPLETELY desensitizes anyone to it?
It's also worth noting that this is the only sequel that tries to make Leatherface some kind of invincible villian like Michael Myers. He gets shot with a shotgun about 3 times, and then drowns, but at the end he is alive and going. In Halloween, we get the explanation that Myers is the Devil or the Boogeyman, which explains his superpowers to stay alive, BUT in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, there never was superpowers. If the villian did not have superpower abilities in the original movie, then the sequels should stay like that, and this sequel did not, which adds another huge downgrade to it.
Exactly. Leatherface is a normal human. He's not superhuman or supernatural like Michael, Jason, Freddy and the like so stuff they can shrug off should kill him.
You hit the nail on the head, Doc! This series really is lacking the fan passion it deserves. It's honestly kinda sad to say this, but I think Resident Evil 7 made for a better TCM story than anything we've gotten in years!
It's his mothers face, not one of the cops faces. That was her faceless corpse in the field Sally found, propped up like the grave-robbed corpse in the beginning of the original.
The first Texas Chainsaw movie to feature the original's main character, Sally. However, in this film, she is played by Olwen Fouéré as the original actor, Marilyn Burns, tragically passed away on August 5, 2014. The film was initially stated for a theatrical release sometime in 2021 but all plans were scrapped due to a string of disastrous test screenings. It was subsequently sold to Netflix. On August 24, 2020, initial directors and brothers Ryan Tohill and Andy Tohill split from the project during the film's first week of production in Bulgaria. The duo was replaced with David Blue Garcia, who scrapped and reshot the previous footage. John Larroquette serves as the Narrator in this film, as well the original 1974 version. Like all other sequels and remakes of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and unlike the original, this version contracts "chainsaw" into a single word in the title. The sound effect of the barbecue lid being opened is a musical cue from the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The population sign at the edge of Harlow says "population 1974" which is the year the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre film was released. The name of the county the film takes place in as well as the Sheriff's department is "Hooper County". This is a nod to the co-creater of TCM as well as the original 1974 film's director: Tobe Hooper The road sign says Harlow pop. 1974. The original movie, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, came out in year of 1974. Kill Count: 7 + 9 (shown) on bus = 16 (more were assumed killed off-camera on bus) (+1 if you count Leatherface's mom)
While the kills were impressive, I was really really upset with the handling of Sally. Not only was the character reduced to a southern Laurie Strode, but the payoff of her return was anticlimactic and cruel. The character could have been anyone else and the outcome dynamic would be no different.
If you want to kill off Sally, do it by having Sally CONSCIOUSLY making the decision to sacrifice herself in order to kill Leatherface. Just having her cut down like she was is definitely an insult to the character and the fans. They built a whole town for the film. Make her have a stick of dynamite and lure him into one of the buildings and when they square off, his chainsaw runs out of gas just as her shotgun runs out of shells, so she lights the dynamite and charges him, blowing up the whole building. Leatherface can still survive that, but it would be a far more acceptable end to Sally's character than just dying in a pile of garbage.
@@kevinmillerwaynejr5852 Hopefully it ends like H20, with Laurie cutting off Michael's head. Then they can do a stupid retcon and Busta Rhymes can return.
Thanks Doc, great review. The original is gold and they should stop attempting to make lightning strike twice. I also enjoyed part II because it was bonkers.
I didn't like the fact that Leatherface didn't have a family in this one! The Crazy family members made the old movies more unsettling. At first I thought the Mechanic was a family member.
The question I find myself asking time and again is, why remake a movie that was nearly perfect, when it inevitably falls short of living up to the original?
@MonsterGuyX Nothing wrong with remaking something as long as it has some substance of its own and offers something good to old and new fans. That said more often than not the people handling remakes don't always get it right and ends up falling short of what could have been a great remake or in this case a remade sequel to the first movie. I honestly enjoyed aspects of the new movie as it definitely delivered on the gore factor, my biggest issue is that wasted a good opportunity with Sally's character as they kind of made her devoid of logic with certain choices she made in the film. It also didn't help that some of Sally's dialogue was really corny in the way it was delivered when talking about her past experiences with Leatherface. To the new films credit, the cinematography is very good and Leatherfaces new actor did a great job with what he was given to work with so the film has some merit but it could have been great with the right people penning the script.
You know, for all your complaints about movies not being original anymore, you're not exactly being original yourself with that "Blehhhh! Remakes and sequels are terrible, they're never as good as the originals!" crap that literally everyone else has been saying for the past 10 years or so, if you want originality in the world, be more original yourself.
@@tristanhartup4936 1) People only keep saying it because it keeps being true. 2) Originality should be something the artist aspires to, not something that is required of the audience. That doesn't even make sense. 3) I never said, "Blehhhh! Remakes and sequels are terrible," I just don't like the ones that suck. I thought this one sucked. 4) Your criticism of my criticism is only slightly less original than my criticism.
What the fuck was the old woman living off? Leatherface hid all his weapons so he’s probably not killing anymore, not to mention that they live in the middle of nowhere. She doesn’t have a car. She lives in the middle of nowhere. What the hell does she drink/eat?
Been waiting for a video for awhile and it was worth it. Made a slow work day better. I love when he puts himself through the crappy corporate ringer for our entertainment/sins so I don't have to. Thank you, Doctor Wolfula!
Love ya, WolfDoc. Your sensible, calm critiques are a breath of fresh air. Love your love for all things horror and you don’t needlessly bash people or creators either. Well done!
It was good....the horror fans that complain are idiot's ...its the fake horror fans who haven't seen the original or the crowd that loves movies such as paranormal activity yet hate the excersist type of horror fans the brain-dead ones haha this leatherface was good and menacing I loved if
@@ALSuspiria-sh1ss “it’s the fake horror fans who didn’t see the original who didn’t like it” they said in the comment section of a horror movie youtuber that said the original is his favorite horror movie of all time and didn’t like this one.
8:58 Neither 3D or this seem to understand that the whole Sawyer family is the threat of the series not only Leatherface. He's just the muscle. So killing them off at the start of 3D and presumably having Drayton and Grandpa die of old age in this continuity is stupid.
First, no, he didn't made mask from the face of one of the cops, he cutted it off his "mother". Second, I "love" how they changed Leatherface completely, There is no Sawyer family in this, Leatherface grew up in the orphanage, and that old lady was looking after him. It shows the exact amount of shits creators of this movie gave about the original.
You missed the literal "massacre" of cancel culture. And the characters are Gen Z, not Millenials. Us Millenials are in the 30-40 age bracket. And the inclusion of Sally ultimately felt like a middle finger to the "Legacy Character returns as a total badass" trope, and I'm here for that.
Anytime I hear that "Dog will hunt" clip from Texas Chainsaw 2 my brain immediately fills the rest of the space in with Jerry was a Racecar Driver by Primus
Also let's be honest watching a bunch of moronic Gen Z individuals getting slaughtered by Leatherface after they threatened to cancel him with their phones. I can't be the only one who gets atleast a little catharsis out of that.
The post credit scene sets up Leatherface going home. Basically how this movie should’ve started. Crossing my fingers for the sequel but not expecting much
Leather face using some of his MKX moves, like throwing his saw had me laughing. Old and OP leatherface here got a lot of kills. Maybe we will see this Leatherface fight against the new Michael Myers in a possible crossover?
As I've said in another review, where does the orphanage come in? This is supposed to be a direct sequel to the original, and in that he lives on a farm with his brothers, and I'm pretty sure he was a grown man. LOL
Am i first? You betcha yer ass i am! I love to see how far you have come with this channel!!!!!! Been on a 4 day binder watching your content what a difference 9 years makes. Tho the intellectual quality and entertainment has always been rock solid
Oh, one more thing: during the opening narration, John Larroquette mentions that police created a "composite picture" based on Sally's description. The image of Leatherface appears on the TV screen, replicated far more accurately than would have been possible through such means. It's a small detail, but also a very dumb detail.
worst thing I hated about this movie was that girl first wanting to go with the old lady in the van then letting her friend just randomly go with the creepy cops and random people you just met. Then having a freak out when she died. It makes no sense on why she cared so much about this random lady you met
I had fun watching but man, Lila and Richter are the only characters I didn’t want to die lmao. They really tried to make us care for Lila’s sister Melody, but only after making her be a prick. Like talking shit about Richter right in front of him to “stand up for” her sister, even though Layla herself was like “dude shut up what’s wrong with you?” Honestly I was rooting for Leatherface for most of the movie. Those kills were amazing though! The bus scene was glorious
I think as much as I love shlocky slasher films, I think I agree with the Director of Henry: portrait of a serial killer. The failing of TCM it that it has become about treating the characters as meat.
Called it! Yeah, just by the trailer I got a really bad feeling about this one and oh boy; this just made me love TCM 2 even more(and I already love TCM 2). The story makes no sense(your suggestion would have worked perfectly but some bright spark didn’t think so), I don’t think I’ve seen a movie in a long time where I wanted every single character to die, the effects were fine but nowhere near as the amazingness of TCM 2 and Tom Savini’s effects(then again it is Tom fuckin Savini), this Leatherface makes the Leatherface from Next Generation look like Gunner Hanson, the “social commentary” really worked against the film by showing how terrible the characters are and how guns are actually valuable, and they also did Sally wrong and it does seem like the studio saw the box office numbers and acclaim Halloween 2018 got(even Halloween Kills pulled in big numbers, and I really like that movie warts and all) and thought “Hey, let’s have Sally want revenge against Leatherface for the events of the original” when anyone who has seen the original could tell she was freaking traumatized and would not want go anywhere near Leatherface ever again(hell I don’t think this would have made the movie any good or even watchable, but why not have Stretch from 2 or Michelle from 3 be the one to go after Leatherface when they find out where he is? They actually fought Leatherface; well not so much Stretch but she did stand up to him and the Sawyer family; and fans of those two movies would probably be interested in seeing how these characters have done over the decades. Also, both actresses are still alive too!) Just an absolute fuckin mess of a movie and just makes the recent Scream movie(which is great) and Halloween Kills truly show what people who do love the original source material do to honor the original, not this one
A visually great run-of-the-mill slasher flick with a name it doesn't deserve. Leatherface was never a teleporting immortal super-murderer like Jason and Meyers, he was the big, dumb, child-brained muscle for a sadistic family of cannibals, not a cunning and clever people hunter. Matter of fact, he was pretty bad at the chase, most of his victims were ambushed in his home, and just as often as he'd catch people on the run, he'd injure himself trying to get them. Being clumsy was one of his character traits, and the more they remove traits like those, the family, the fallibility, the more they boil out everything that makes the killer iconic, save for the superficial: Mask Chainsaw Texas.
Ah doc been watching you for years! Lovely to see you’re still at it my undead friend have a pleasant and gory year! Edit: isn’t the mask he makes after the crash his mother’s? We see her later on with her face removed
I actually enjoy this movie, but I do agree that I wish this movie didn't have social commentary and a gun control message, those were not needed, this movie could've been a lot better if they use more practical effects, shot this movie in Texas, have better writing, also Sally didn't need to be in the movie as well, but overall it's a fun slasher that I can put on and just have a good time.
It really shouldn't be this difficult to write a Texas Chainsaw Massacre film, but so many have tried and failed. I think you're right about it being a cash grab made by people who didn't get the original. For a start, you need the Sawyer family, especially if you can wrangle the rights to Chop Top (Bill Moseley is only too happy to play the part again, it's just that MGM owns TCM2) as his presence could make a huge difference.
I had a ball with this movie. I knew it wasn't gonna be as scary as the first, so I was expecting something crazy like part 2 or Next Generation. The bus scene was my favorite moment.
As soon as all those hipster douche bags pulled out there phones I was waiting rooting for all of them to get cut in half the black chick that got bisected was my favorite
I did not care for this. Why would they go to fourth-wall-shattering lengths to keep reminding us of the original movie - including a polaroid that shouldn't even exist - but then arbitrarily change major parts of the backstory from TCM '73? Agreed with Doc Wolfula, this just didn't feel like Leatherface, and the inclusion of Sally felt like a desperate callback to Halloweeen '18.
i was waiting on your review of this, I think you summed up perfectly what was in the back of my mind while watching. The way that I thought of this movie is it felt more like this was based on the 2003 leatherface than the original, but after mentioning the new Halloween movies i think thats exactly what they were going for instead of a faithful continuation. its just upsetting because i can tell the budget and talent was there since the movie is shot really well and is visually nice to look at, sad to see it not put to good use.
I’ll agree the story isn’t amazing, but I do really have a new soft spot for this new film, it does exactly what is says on tin. It’s in Texas, the chainsaw shit is awesome, and there is definitely a massacre. The kills were awesome and brutal. I also like the fact it just jumps straight into it, no mystery or slow burn. I loved the build up of the original but I don’t think my generation would get with this is film if it was quite slow paste. But anyways yea, good film underneath a mediocre story
I think certain rewriting could make this a more acceptable sequel to the original. Maybe if they had made the orphanage have a cannibalistic backstory to where the original Sawyer movie had ended up in that town or something, and have maybe have the Texan dude with the gun help leatherface kill people and also have Leatherface act more like his original self, this could have been better.
I think the reason why they keep telling the stories and they keep going bad because they write it from the perspective of the victims like they're the most important character the story but we're all here for the real main character and that is Leatherface. They shouldn't even call it Texas Chainsaw Massacre they should just call it Leatherface and give the character more opportunity to hunt in different places because every one of the movies, it's just him hunting.
