With a running time of around 80 minutes, it’s hard to even fault it for wasting your time, because it takes up so little of it. There’s a great sequence in a party bus with a bunch of influencers getting hacked to pieces that is a delight, and a shocking ending that also contains a great self-driving car gag, so this new entry is a mixed bag for sure. (In one of the movie’s more clever flourishes, they sell merchandise related to the crime in a local gas station.) Of course, while trying to evict an elderly tenant, things go wrong, and Leatherface (Mark Burnham), long dormant, awakens to take bloody vengeance. This installment follows a group of yuppies (led by sisters played by Sarah Yarkin and Elsie Fisher) as they look to revitalize an ailing backwoods Texas town, one that has been synonymous with the events of the original film. It’s more or less a direct sequel to the original film, ignoring almost everything that came after it, including all the weird detours the franchise has taken. Saw good, man.įor this new “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” they seem to be following the model of 2018’s highly popular “Halloween” sequel. (This one was directed by Marcus Nispel, a German-born music video director and was produced by Michael Bay.) Weirdly, it just comes across as a watered-down facsimile of the original, with few moments that really stand out (although the shot that goes through the suicide gunshot wound of the hitchhiker is admittedly pretty cool).
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And the look of the movie (shot by original cinematographer Daniel Pearl), eschews the documentary feel of the original for something far slicker and “grimy” in a very music video-y way. While the original was light on actual violence, this one doesn’t shy away from bloodshed. In some ways this new “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” was appealing to the idea of the original film, made by people who thought they understood what made it special. And it catapulted the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” brand, which had been dormant for nearly a decade, back into the public eye. This direct remake of the original film grossed more than $100 million on a budget of less than $10 million. This is the movie that brought the family (originally known as the Sawyer family, now the Hewitts) back to the big time. And while John Luessenhop does have some fun, particularly when amassing several key performers from earlier in the “Texas Chainsaw” universe, including original stars Gunnar Hansen and Marilyn Burns and Bill Mosley from “Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2,” it’s all in service of a story that seems underdeveloped and overcooked.
It doesn’t make much sense, especially when Leatherface (Dan Yeager) is framed not as a hulking psychopath but as a misunderstood protector. And he re-emerges when a long-lost family member (played by Alexandra Daddario) comes to collect her inheritance. Of course (surprise!) Leatherface survives. The opening of “Texas Chainsaw 3D” (yes it was in 3D) rewrites the ending of the original film, this time with the townspeople of Newt, Texas (?) rising up and taking revenge on Leatherface and his entire messed-up family. Weirdly, “Texas Chainsaw 3D” tries to be a direct sequel to the 1974 film while also altering the mythology in huge, utterly befuddling ways (like moving the events of the original film to 1979 for some reason).
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