The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
***Warning: Review Contains Spoilers*** I absolutely loved this movie. It had the ability to scare you, thrill you, and make you scream all together. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the best horror movies I've seen in a long, great while. I saw this movie three times, and I'm not ashamed at all.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre starts off with a group of five teenagers driving through rural Texas on their way to a rock concert. We have the good girl, Erin (Jessica Biel), the slutty hitchiker whose character you can't help but like, Pepper (Erica Leerhsen), the cool guy, Andy (Mike Vogel), the jokester guy, Morgan (Jonathan Tucker), and the take charge guy, Kemper (Eric Balfour). The group is driving along when they almost hit a traumatized girl on the road. They pick her up and take her into the van, and she begins mumbling things like "he's a bad man", and "your all gonna die". Then, she pulls out a gun and kills herself in front of them all. Si ck and puzzled, the gang drives to the nearest town, which is a redneck town, and they plan to meet the local sheriff (R. Lee Ermey) at an abandoned mill. After arriving there and seeing no sheriff, they one by one wander to the dilapidated farmhouse of Thomas Hewitt, or Leatherface, and his psychotic family of murderers.
The actors in this movie where wonderful. Leerhsen, Vogel, Balfour, and Tucker are given a very minimum of character background to work with, and they pull it off spectacularly. Jessica Biel, the only survivor of the massacre, is great, and man can she scream! R. Lee Ermey is downright scary as the crazed Sheriff Hoyt, as is the rest of his family, especially the new and improved Leatherface. Imagine that guy running after you with a chainsaw!
Director Marcus Nispel keeps things appropriately dark and eerie, which is exactly the opposite of the '74 original movie. Instead of focusing on a scratchy documentary type style (like the original), Nispel goes for the more glossy, updated look, which works out well. I never thought that Michael Bay, producer of Pearl Harbor, would have done a horror movie, but he showed me how well he can make one.
The intensity of this movie was off the charts, and it kept you on the edge of your seat the whole ride through. This movie was incredibly gory. If you have a weak stomach, you may want to skip this because of it's gore. It's pretty disturbing watching Leatherface "treat" some of his victims in his ways.
My favorite scenes in the film are when Erin and Andy go to the house and are chased by Leatherface, and Pepper's death scene in the van. That scene was intense, dramatic and horrifying, and I think the feathers floating from Pepper's torn jacket added something more.
If you haven't seen this movie, see it now and you won't be disappointed. It will scare you to death. I recommend this movie for horror fans. Serious fans of the original will hate this, but others like me, will love it. 10/10.
***Warning: Review Contains Spoilers*** I absolutely loved this movie. It had the ability to scare you, thrill you, and make you scream all together. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the best horror movies I've seen in a long, great while. I saw this movie three times, and I'm not ashamed at all.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre starts off with a group of five teenagers driving through rural Texas on their way to a rock concert. We have the good girl, Erin (Jessica Biel), the slutty hitchiker whose character you can't help but like, Pepper (Erica Leerhsen), the cool guy, Andy (Mike Vogel), the jokester guy, Morgan (Jonathan Tucker), and the take charge guy, Kemper (Eric Balfour). The group is driving along when they almost hit a traumatized girl on the road. They pick her up and take her into the van, and she begins mumbling things like "he's a bad man", and "your all gonna die". Then, she pulls out a gun and kills herself in front of them all. Si ck and puzzled, the gang drives to the nearest town, which is a redneck town, and they plan to meet the local sheriff (R. Lee Ermey) at an abandoned mill. After arriving there and seeing no sheriff, they one by one wander to the dilapidated farmhouse of Thomas Hewitt, or Leatherface, and his psychotic family of murderers.
The actors in this movie where wonderful. Leerhsen, Vogel, Balfour, and Tucker are given a very minimum of character background to work with, and they pull it off spectacularly. Jessica Biel, the only survivor of the massacre, is great, and man can she scream! R. Lee Ermey is downright scary as the crazed Sheriff Hoyt, as is the rest of his family, especially the new and improved Leatherface. Imagine that guy running after you with a chainsaw!
Director Marcus Nispel keeps things appropriately dark and eerie, which is exactly the opposite of the '74 original movie. Instead of focusing on a scratchy documentary type style (like the original), Nispel goes for the more glossy, updated look, which works out well. I never thought that Michael Bay, producer of Pearl Harbor, would have done a horror movie, but he showed me how well he can make one.
The intensity of this movie was off the charts, and it kept you on the edge of your seat the whole ride through. This movie was incredibly gory. If you have a weak stomach, you may want to skip this because of it's gore. It's pretty disturbing watching Leatherface "treat" some of his victims in his ways.
My favorite scenes in the film are when Erin and Andy go to the house and are chased by Leatherface, and Pepper's death scene in the van. That scene was intense, dramatic and horrifying, and I think the feathers floating from Pepper's torn jacket added something more.
If you haven't seen this movie, see it now and you won't be disappointed. It will scare you to death. I recommend this movie for horror fans. Serious fans of the original will hate this, but others like me, will love it. 10/10.