The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

Excellent, a Must See

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is far better than the later prequels and remakes but also has a far more better cast of characters who are pretty fun and we wanna see live plus Jessica Biel was pretty awesome and the end was really cool and something that we should have seen in the later installments as well. It's not perfect but it's an entertaining remake. (7.8/10)

Over the years, classics have been turned into remakes and never have they work, The Texas Chainsaw Masscare, even though it was a classic, was no doubt going to get one and in 2003, 31 years after its release, it did. The film is a bit different then the original and follows a bit of a different plot, in the first film, the group of kids go down after they hear the main character's grandfather's grave has been vandalized, in this, they are heading for a concert, personally, this storyline was not original but better, considering, I don't know why a group of your friends would go down with you to see your grandfather's grave. The characters in the film are also way more likeable, I'm sorry, but this film I haft to give a lot of credit, the final girl in this film may not have been as good as the original but you still cared for her and did not want her to die, they're were actually some pretty creepy scenes in this film especially the tea lady scene, that scene was always really creepy and really fucked up in a small way, I don't know what it is but this film has to go to "Best horror remake ever" along probably with Halloween, I'm sorry, it's brilliant, and we haft to talk about something, something big...Lee Ermey, Lee Ermey is Oscar worthy in this film, he is actually more better then the original dad even though he was more creepy, this one way waaay more intense, the funny thing is I only watched the original last week and I never really saw the remake before so I thought..it might not be that bad, it was amazing, the ending aswell to this film was very good and really creepy, I mean like the last scene was really creepy. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre may not beat the original but is going on my favourite horror film list. Stay tuned for more remake reviews like Friday The 13th (sigh), Nightmare On Elm Street (sigh), The Omen (sigh).etc and also stayed tuned for my review of Insidious: The Last Key which may be postponed until Sunday, but until then, byeeee! Oh! And please watch this if your looking for an actual good remake!

This new version of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" adapts the original story and tries to base it in a new time-line while adding some new elements to it. Actually I enjoyed it more than I feared I would. A Chainsaw Massacre is one of the most boring and unnecessary film plots I can possibly imagine, so I was kind of glad that the "running from a guy with a chainsaw but getting slaughtered nonetheless" passages were kept to a bearable amount.Instead a setting is created in which a whole village is somehow involved in a crime plot that is as awful as morbid. I liked the atmosphere resulting from this, that aimed a bit more at psychical horror than mere splatter and I think that this is what made the movie okay for me. Otherwise the plot is as stupid as, unfortunately, most horror movies. A group of beautiful young people, stranding somewhere and being slaughtered. I don't know how many versions of this exact same plot are still necessary until it's enough but I guess it will be a lot.If you take the movie for what it is, without aiming too much at a comparison with the original movie, which of course is a quite plausible thing to do, or expecting any greatness plot-wise, this film is quite enjoyable. Nothing I would add to any list of favorites, but nothing anyone has to apologize for neither.

I understand the heat or desire to play with leatherface. To have "fun" with the character. Before this movie was made there have been a few dozens of filmmakers wanting to do so. But if you remember the subject material for the original, it's pretty far from "fun" and that's the whole idea - why 1974 Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a classic.But with the subject material it would have been easy to make something new that adds to that material, that stands the test of time and continues to intrigue horror movies lovers wolrdwide for years on end. The other - more obvious option is to make just another slasher film adding sex and shown violence (which the original did not have since it relied largely on viewers own imagination) to charm the majorities. That brings the dough in. While I'm certain there are many others who are in heat to get to just shallowly play around with Leatherface, I would like to believe there is someone out there who will give this character and the storyline the treatment it deserves. Skip this one unless you really are after pointless violence and mainstream "horror" and do yourself a favour and watch the original. Again and again !