“Texas Chainsaw Massacre”

Post by **Sara** » 26 Oct 2003, 13:24

((Eh, Last thread got screwed badly by my own fault..))

For someone who –loves- the slash and gash flicks, I found “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” a perfected horror flick. If I had seen the original would I know what was coming and would I know who this “Leatherface” was, besides some maniac who wears the skins of his dead victims, I wouldn’t have been so terrified. Overtime, I had grown tired of past horror flicks with the predator sneaking up on the prey. I mean come on … you NEED something that scares the hell out of you rather than makes you jump from a momentary flash of the weapon used or the face of the monster. Have the maniac run at you with a Chainsaw!! It’s good for the cardio.

With using modern teens had made me actually sympathize for their prolonged deaths when in previous movies, I would cheer the bad-guy on; in -this- movie I was begging that the kids would get away and safely to their Skynyrd concert with only a bad memory. After seeing a human hanging from a Meat Hook, and still ALIVE, was both chilling, and intriguing. If you’ve not seen it, or have, watch it on the IMAX screen. With the screen-size and the surround sound, you would soon to believe that you, too where Running away from Leatherface and his Deadly Chainsaw.

Written for MSN Movie Reviews.

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Needless to say, I LOVED IT; and I will see it again. /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />

Mr. DNA · Post by **Mr. DNA** » 26 Oct 2003, 15:13

I have to see this movie

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » 28 Oct 2003, 00:53

They should have said 'Inspired by a true story that never happened' instead.

beeurd · Post by **beeurd** » 28 Oct 2003, 15:24

Me and my girlfriend are gonna go and see it at the weekend

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » 30 Oct 2003, 18:11

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It was probably meant to be hype a la Blair Witch.

beeurd · Post by **beeurd** » 05 Nov 2003, 14:23

Whoah, I'm now horror movie fan, but this was cool.
I only went to see it because my g/f wanted to, heh. I expected to be laughing at cheap tricks that were supposed to scare you... And while there were a few, they weren't all that funny... lol

Android raptor · Post by **Android raptor** » 08 May 2004, 12:55

My sister saw it, and she said it was disgusting.

ChanceKell · Post by **ChanceKell** » 08 May 2004, 13:05

Wow, talk about reviving a dead thread. But, seeing that it was posted in again, and I got a chance to read it, I'd just like to point out that both the original and remake of the TCM is inspired by a true story, unlike the Blair Witch Project. It just turns out that the same story that inspired the original is the same story that inspired Hitchcock when he did Psycho.. And even Psycho took a lot of creative changes to the original story. The guy who made TCM wanted to tell the same sort of story about the serial killer, but wanted to differentiate himself from Psycho. So, he added in a chainsaw. Needless to say, Leatherface never really lived.

Nagisa · Post by **Nagisa** » 08 May 2004, 15:11

I hated this movie. It's just a pathetic remake turned into another generic "scary movie" slasher flick with a completely unlikable cast (save for the guy posing as the sheriff, he was funny). Five minutes in, I pretty much predicted the entire movie, and sat in boredom as every "amasing twist" just came true right on schedule.

What makes this a bigger letdown is that it failed to scare me through its entire run, but the ten minutes I saw of the original gave me the creeps. If seeing that little of the original scared me, the fact that seeing the entire remake did nothing...wow...that just means it sucks even more.

Shark Death · Post by **Shark Death** » 09 May 2004, 07:27

I remember when a friend of mine had seen the new Ed Gein movie and had bashed it for being a huge Texas Chainsaw Massacre rip off. Ugh, what an idiot. Kids, Ed Gein is leatherface, he's Buffalo Bill, he's Norman Bates, and he's many others.

Ed Gein is the reason why they made the original Chainsaw Massacre, they wanted to make a story that reflected the real Gein very closely but still be original. That is why the original is so much better than the newest remake. R. Lee Ermey is the only reason why I kept watching that film. Instead of trying to tell the story of Ed Gein, the remake tried telling the story of the original Chainsaw Massacre flick, so it strayed even further from the Ed Gein mythology that's become so unknown but a major factor in horror movie inspiration. So it then became just another slasher flick but with a slightly better value.