On the position that the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is more violent and gory than the original, and the fact that there was not one once of comedy like there was in the original, I seriously have no choice but to give this film it’s well deserved **1/2 stars. It is a horror film more so than any other, it is scary, you will jump, you may even shed a tear, at some of the situations the teen characters are put though. But other than the plan simple fact that it is scary. It’s got nothing that would make me say that it’s better than the original.
First off the Family sucks, No grandpa, I mean there is a grandpa but he’s nothing like the original grandpa. No crazy brothers of Leatherface (Chop-Top, Hitchhiker ). And Leatherface had no substance, no character, I like Leatherface when he’s screaming like a moron in the middle of a field or when he shows his nice side, in this film he’s just out to kill, Lee R. Ermey was pretty good as the sheriff, he stole the show as far as I’m concerned, and Jessica Biel was also very good.
My whole thing was I really wanted it to be like the original and what we get is a different take on the story, which is probably more close to the truth than Tobe Hooper’s original film. There were no great lines in the script that would help make this film memorable, which is something I look for in these family kind of films. I like the family horror films the have been coming out lately (House of 1000 Corpses, Wrong Turn), but we don’t really get a family with personally. So to me it was not much of a throwback to 70’s horror like we would all like it to be, it was more like 1/2 of what the 70’s had to offer with about of of 90’s horror thrown in. Overall it’s got great gore, but that’s about it.
-Horror Bob
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- Interview with Writer/Director Nacho Cerda (The Abandoned, Aftermath) - January 22, 2015
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