With Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel. This cannot be a healthy way to feel, but “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” never evokes the fear that was the hallmark of the original and settles only for disgust at the volume of viscera. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Directed by Marcus Nispel. Leatherface’s relentless carnage is simultaneously too much and not enough, with each successive murder earning less of a reaction. Austin-based influencers and their friends (Sarah Yarkin, Jacob Latimore, Elsie Fisher and Nell Hudson) see opportunity in a Texas ghost town, but their arrival displaces a longtime resident (Alice Krige) and the hulking, disturbed man (guess who) in her care.Īn inventive first kill sets a standard that the movie can’t match in the dozens of fatalities that follow. The enduring country-versus-city theme of the original remains, but this time, it’s not hippies who venture into rural territory with deadly results. Horror filmmakers, icons and experts name the most underappreciated horror films of all time. Usually, when they say "Not for those of a nervous disposition", it's shameless hype this time, they mean it.Movies Expert picks: The 25 best underrated horror movies for Halloween The outright sensationalism of Tobe Hoopers regional horror masterpiece begins with its eye-grabbing, unforgettable title. It has an almost absurdist lack of meaning which is as horrific as any "message" could be, and is never less than totally committed to scaring you witless. Original Title: EMPIRE ESSAY: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Starring: Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Mark Burnham. Unlike The Exorcist, which tries to make horror play with a mass audience, this is a picture for the hardcore crowd. In this sequel, influencers looking to breathe new life into a Texas ghost town encounter Leatherface, an infamous killer who wears a mask of human skin. The horrror house, where human and animal bones are used in the furniture and a fat chicken is cooped in a canary cage, is a truly nightmarish locale, and the four maniacs each have unpleasant but credible tics. The horror scenes are staged with unforgettable force, using the soundtrack as much as the (oddly restrained) visuals to batter you senseless, but Hooper and his collaborators, especially art director Bob Burns, fill the film with unsettling details that register on the corner of the eye. (Although it's an open question as to what is left of her mind after the experience.)įrom the first images - a corpse wired to a grave, sunspots, a dead armadillo in the road - the film goes all out to show you the uncomfortable. The longest-lived is Sally (Burns), a blonde in amazingly wide white flares who makes it through an appalling dinner table scene and finally escapes. Its "plot" is textbook modern American folktale - a vanload of kids, not unlike the bunch from Scooby Doo, wander off the road in rural Texas and trespass on the wrong farm, where they are murdered by a family of degenerates who used to work in the local slaughterhouse but now practice their bloody skills on passing people.
A quarter of a century on, power-tools may have been overused blunting the sheer gall of using a title as up-front as this, but Tobe Hooper's sick, inventive little film remains as disturbing, suspenseful and shattering as the day it first saw the light of a drive-in screen.
The most purely horrifying horror movie ever made.
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