The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Texas Chainsaw prequel, set in 1969. "We flip back through the Leatherface family album all the way to 1939, when the badly disfigured future chainsaw-wielder crawls out of his mother’s womb on (where else?) a slaughterhouse floor. Leatherface finds himself the victim of meatpacking-industry downsizing and, resourceful lad that he is, turns his attention from bovine to human pursuits. Enter the requisite carload of nubile young things — two brothers (Taylor Handley and Matt Bomer) en route to Vietnam, their respective girlfriends (Diora Baird and Jordana Brewster) in tow — about to discover they’re what’s for dinner..." [LA Weekly]
200694 minsUSA
Horror
- Director:
- Jonathan Liebesman ('Darkness Falls')
- Writer:
- Sheldon Turner
- Cast:
- Jordana BrewsterTaylor HandleyDiora BairdMatt Bomer
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning | Reviews
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Hollywood Reporter
The whole fear-of-obese-hillbillies device is starting to smell as stale as Leatherface's playroom. Does this horror trend simply reflect a national fear, as giant radioactive ants personified the Bomb in the 1950s? If so, maybe it's time for us all to go on a diet; America needs fresh fodder for its boogeymen...
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Film Threat
"The Beginning" is a better movie than the 2003 remake, even if the plot is understandably similar. There are only so many ways hapless teens can get brutally slaughtered, after all, but Liebesman and company keep things appropriately creepy, right down to aping the look of the 1974 original...
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