"A flawed, but excellently creative, brutal and incredibly gory remake."

While it still cannot even compare to original's brilliance or pure terror in any way, shape or form, this remake of 1974's 'The Texas Chain Saw...
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"A flawed, but excellently creative, brutal and incredibly gory remake."

While it still cannot even compare to original's brilliance or pure terror in any way, shape or form, this remake of 1974's 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' is not quite what you'd expect from a Hollywood remake of an old horror film and nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be if you give it a chance. While many critics and audience alike hated this film, there were still some who reviewed it deeper as a film on its own; not on how gory it is or on how it compares to the original bold, but on how the film works as a whole - and I, for one, are part of the latter group. 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is bold, brutal, humorous and very well-written and stands out in my mind as being one of the most inventive horror remakes I've seen.

As I hinted to before, the film is not perfect. There is some spotty and, quite frankly, terrible acting here and there, the characters are almost the most unlikeable characters you could imagine, and while I'm certainly not complaining about this, but it does focus a lot more on gore and graphic, disgusting violence than the original did.

On the whole, for fans of the original, fans of horror in general or just someone who isn't squeamish looking for a late night movie, this film is worth watching - and I might just leave it at that.

This one was rather disappointing. Not the worst remake out there, but does a good job of destroying elements that made the original shine. The biggest thing that irked me about this one is the inclusion of so many night scenes. The fact the...
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This one was rather disappointing. Not the worst remake out there, but does a good job of destroying elements that made the original shine. The biggest thing that irked me about this one is the inclusion of so many night scenes. The fact the original took place in the glaring light of broad day was so unsettling (at the time, almost all horror flicks took place at night). and for them to do this, it shows the underlying problem w/ the remake- the film-makers just didn't "get" what made the OG work. But they attempted to cover over this w/ snazy FX, bigger body count, and trendy camera angles.

I like it, it was really intense scaping from thomas.

The US remake their own films much better than botching up foreign classics, because the culture and understanding are already in place. Still I wish they had not attempted messing around with a film so Legendary. By no means a bad effort and I...
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The US remake their own films much better than botching up foreign classics, because the culture and understanding are already in place. Still I wish they had not attempted messing around with a film so Legendary. By no means a bad effort and I liked the use of liquids such as heavy rain, constant leakage and dripping. Wet.