
Driving through the backwoods of Texas, five youths pick up a traumatized hitchhiker, who shoots herself in their van. Shaken by the suicide, the group seeks help from the locals, but their situation becomes even more surreal when they knock on the door of a remote homestead. It's quickly apparent the residents are a family of inbred psychopaths, and the unlucky youths suddenly find themselves running for their lives. In hot pursuit is a disfigured, chainsaw-wielding cannibal... (Full plot summary below)
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Driving through the backwoods of Texas, five youths pick up a traumatized hitchhiker, who shoots herself in their van. Shaken by the suicide, the group seeks help from the locals, but their situation becomes even more surreal when they knock on the door of a remote homestead. It's quickly apparent the residents are a family of inbred psychopaths, and the unlucky youths suddenly find themselves running for their lives. In hot pursuit is a disfigured, chainsaw-wielding cannibal known as Leatherface.
Leave your thoughts about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
| Zap2it.comMichael SzymanskiRarely do re-makes ever need to be done, and rarely are they ever any good. This one is better! |
| Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA)Rachel Deahl...Although the story's high on gore and low on almost everything else, Leatherface still inspires a hell of a lot more fear than Freddy or Jason. |
| Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)Jonathan R. Perry... a curious form of cinematic matricide worthy of kabuki drama is being committed here - the offspring is rising up to disembowel its celluloid parent, visiting cruel punishment on Tobe Hooper for the unforeseeable sins that have sprung from the genre h |
| Las Vegas WeeklyJosh BellIt's as if they didn't know whether to do a faithful remake or a modernist departure, and the result is a dissatisfying middle ground. |
| CitysearchAllison AustinThere are so many jump-out- of-your-seat surprises that it's bound to be embarrassing for a number of moviegoers. |
| Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)Linda CookLet's get this "based on a true story" thing straight, once and for all. |
| Bangor Daily News (Maine)Christopher SmithRight up there with the "Faces of Death" series in the punch of nausea it likely will generate in some viewers. |
| Chicago TribuneRobert K. ElderHas no pretensions about sneaking up on you -- it simply charges, motor humming and blades flying, carving the spot where masochism and entertainment meet. |
| Supercala.comJohn VenableAll about style and Jessica Biel in a wet t-shirt...what's wrong with that? Not much. |
| Film Journal InternationalEthan AlterIt's doubtful that the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre will attain the cult status of the original, but as remakes go, this is a solid piece of work. |