Texas Chainsaw 3D

Plot synopsis:
The movie opens with a montage of the original movie. We see each kill happen in 3D as it did in the original movie. It also shows the infamous final scene from the original movie with Sally riding away in the back of the pickup truck while Leatherface swings his chainsaw maniacally in the middle of the road. Next we cut to a police car pulling up in front of the Sawyer house behind another car. Inside the first car is the Carson family (cousins, aunt, uncle to the Sawyers). They run inside and barricade the door and hold up arms along with the Sawyer family.Sheriff Hooper (Thom Barry) arrives outside the Sawyer family house, driving a police car, and he shouts to them that he only wants the boy, Jed a.k.a Leatherface. He says that the woman (Sally) said that a man with a chainsaw killed all her friends. He says that the woman (Sally) said that a man with a chainsaw killed all her friends. Drayton Sawyer (Bill Moseley) shouts that they were trying to protect their family. Hooper constantly tells him that he needs to take the boy into custody and that things don't need to get out of hand. Drayton thinks it over after members of the family agree to give up Jed. So Drayton goes into another room and shouts at Jed telling him that he has to go out there and give himself up. Just then a group of townspeaople from the town of Newt, Texas, led by Mayor Burt Hartman (Paul Rae) who have come with one thing in mind: to kill the entire family. As Drayton and the family prepare to surrender, Burt and other townspeople begin to attack by setting the house ablaze and shooting through the house. Pretty much all of the family is killed in the chaos despite Sheriff Hooper's attempts to stop them. We see Loretta Sawyer (Dodie Brown) cradling a baby, attempting to protect it, but one of the bullets flies through the windows and goes through her right shoulder and the baby's.After the chaos dies down at nighttime and the house is burned down, we see Gavin Miller (David Born) stumble upon a barely alive Loretta who is still holding on to the baby. Gavin takes the baby from her and kills Loretta by kicking her directly in the face. He runs to his wife Arlene (Sue Rock) saying that he found a baby and that they should adopt her. They decide to name the baby Heather.In the present day, adult Heather Miller (Alexandra Daddario) is working in the meat section of a grocery store. She is interrupted by her friend Nikki (Tania Raymonde) who is super excited about a trip that she, Heather, Heather's boyfriend Ryan (Trey Songz), and Ryan's friend Kenny (Keram Malicki-Sánchez) are taking to New Orleans. Heather goes home to her grungy looking apartment where Ryan is sparring on a punching bag. We see that Heather has strange pieces of art that include bones and a lot of black paint. Ryan gets her to relax from being stressed about the trip by making out with her. Just as they are about to have sex they are interrupted by a knock at the door. Ryan goes to answer and gets some mail for Heather, which is a will for her. It states that her grandmother is dead and has left a house for her. However, Heather is confused because her grandparents died years ago.She goes to confront her parents who reveal to her that she was adopted. They warn her not to go to Texas, but she (completely pissed and hurt) leaves and goes back home to Ryan. When she arrives, she tells Ryan she has to go to Texas to learn more about the house and her real family. Ryan doesn't object at all and surprises her when Kenny and Nikki appear, offering to go with them.So they drive towards Texas and on the way they stop at a gas station and accidentally hit someone walking with the van. It's pouring outside, and the guy introduces himself as Darryl (Shaun Sipos). He says that to forget about them hitting him that they can just drop him off when they get to Texas, and he even offers gas money. So they figure what the hell and let him come along.When they finally reach the house they are met at the gates by Farnsworth (Richard Riehle) who gives her a keychain full of keys (one huge one in particular) and he also gives her a letter from her deceased grandmother Verna and advises her to read it IMMEDIATELY. He goes on his way, and they go through the gate.The house is STUNNING and filled with antiques. They explore the house and decide that they should get some food from a local store that may be around. Darryl offers to stay behind and set all their bags up for them, and he also gives them some money for food. They leave him at the house and go into town. After they leave, Darryl immediately starts stuffing things from inside the house into his bag. (He's obviously a thief/scam artist). He explores through the house and uses the keys to get to every door. However, he wonders what the large key goes to and goes all throughout the house until finally he stumbles upon a hidden room behind a wall. He goes into the room which leads him to a door. He uses the big key on the door and goes down into a wine cellar of some sort, and when he gets there he sees a bunch of weird items, including a plate with old rotted food sitting outside a large metal door. He tries to open the metal door various ways, but it doesn't give. As he looks for something to pry it open with, he turns back to the metal door and Leatherface (Dan Yeager) appears and strikes him over the head with a hammer (reminiscent to the scene of Kirk in the original movie). He bashes his head in repeatedly with a hammer on the floor until he is dead.While in town shopping for things, Heather is approached outside a store by Deputy Carl Hartman (Scott Eastwood), who is clearly attracted to her. Meanwhile, inside the store, we see Nikki flirting with Ryan. Ryan clearly cheated on Heather with Nikki, but blames it on them both being drunk. Nikki claims that he was begging for it. Ryan tells her to stop and forget it happened and walks away, disappointing her. Back outside, Heather tells Carl where she's staying, and the Mayor (who is Burt Hartman from earlier in the film) overhears this and asks her if she's related to the Sawyers. She lies and says no and quickly leaves with her friends.When they arrive back at the house, they see that everything is a wreck. They deduce that Darryl must have been a thief and robbed them and left. They relax since it wasn't anything extremely valuable missing and have a few drinks. Kenny (being a chef in training) starts making up some steaks as night falls. Ryan is in the study playing on the pool table, Nikki is outside smoking and eyeing Ryan from the window, and Heather is exploring the house upstairs. While Kenny is cooking, he notices the wall/door that Darryl went through, and he walks through. He calls out to Ryan, but Ryan has music playing very loud so he can't hear him. Kenny walks down into the cellar and sees Darryl's bag and a pool of blood. He calls out for Darryl, but doesn't get a response. Then when he steps into the room with the metal door, he sees the metal door is wide open. As he walks through it, he steps into a dark hallway. Suddenly, Leatherface jumps out of the darkness and chases Kenny. Kenny gets halfway up the stairs when Leatherface shoves a hook through his back. He drags him downstairs, and Kenny's screams are drowned out by the loud music.Nikki runs into the study where Ryan is playing pool. She screams and says there's something crazy he needs to see, and she looks scared. She leads him outside into a barn house in the back. When they get back there, she points to a bucket covering something. When Ryan removes the bucket he sees there is a bottle of wine and two glasses there. He turns around and is shocked to see Nikki standing half naked saying "told you it was crazy." She winks at him, and they proceed to have sex.Back in the house, Heather is upstairs and stumbles into a room where the corpse of Grandma Verna is sitting in a chair, decomposing. She screams and runs downstairs to find everyone, but she sees the house is empty. When she runs into the kitchen, she sees Leatherface holding a severed hand and cutting the fingers off into a bowl. She screams and catches his attention, and he grabs her and tosses her onto the kitchen floor. She hits her head and is knocked out.When she comes to, she is in a room in the cellar and we see Leatherface cutting up Darryl's body in pieces. Then we see him hang Kenny's body up on a hook and saw his body in half. Heather quickly jumps up and runs up the stairs. Leatherface chases after close behind. She falls down the front stairs when she gets outside and runs to the back of the house which is a graveyard full of the Sawyer/Carson family. She finds an unfinished grave with a coffin and climbs inside. As Leatherface stalks the graveyard, he hears Heather crying and jumps on top of the coffin and begins cutting into it.Ryan and Nikki step out of the barn house after hearing the chainsaw and they see Leatherface cutting into something. They call out to him asking who he is and when he sees them, he stops cutting into the coffin and runs toward them. They quickly run back into the barn house and barricade the door. Ryan finds a shovel and Nikki finds a loaded shotgun. She shoots through the door as Leatherface tries to cut through, she shouts "Welcome to Texas Motherfucker!" Suddenly it gets quiet. They see a pair of lights through the door, and the van suddenly crashes through the barn house; it's Heather. They quickly jump in and Ryan drives through the barn and towards the front gate. He tries to ram it but to no avail. As Leatherface catches up to them, Ryan backs the car up so the gate can open automatically and they drive through it. Just as they do, Leatherface manages to cut through the front tire and the side of the van. This causes the van to flip over and crash just as they get about 15 feet from him.Heather looks over, and we see Ryan is dead. (A huge piece of glass from the windshield got lodged deep into his neck). She and Nikki scream as Leatherface tries to cut through the van. He even goes so far as flipping it onto its side. Heather is able to climb out through one of the windows. Leatherface cuts Nikki on the side a little and Heather gets his attention. This distracts him, and he begins to chase Heather through the woods. She manages to reach a fence which leads to a carnival on the other side, and she hops it. Leatherface doesn't stop, and he cuts through the fence, chasing her through the carnival as people run all over, screaming. She gets to the mini ferris wheel and jumps up and grabs onto one of the seats as it lifts her up. Leatherface waits on the other side as she begins to descend back down. But just as she gets close to him, Officer Carl orders him to freeze. Leatherface tosses his chainsaw at Carl, and he ducks just in time. But this gives Leatherface enough time to escape into the woods.Carl takes Heather to the police station for questioning. There we see Sheriff Hooper waiting and when she describes Leatherface he is shocked and begins to think Jed must still be alive after all these years. She also admits that she just found she was a Sawyer. Carl pulls a box labeled "Evidence" and sits it on the table saying there is some crazy stuff in it about the Sawyers/Carsons. Hobbs orders Carl to leave and go look for the maniac. The mayor shows up and demands to speak with Hooper, so he leaves Heather alone while he goes to talk to him. As soon as he leaves, Heather begins to go through the evidence box that Carl pulled, and she sees how her entire family was killed without a fair trial by the townspeople and the mayor and her adoptive mom and dad. She reads about the entire incident that took place that night.Meanwhile, one of the police officers was investigating the crashed van and tells Hooper that no one is here (Nikki and Ryan's body are missing). Hooper orders him to stay at the site, but the officer sees a trail of blood that leads down the road, and he follows it. The mayor is yelling at Hooper saying that Jed cant be alive because they burned that place to the ground. The officer calls Hooper back and informs him that the blood led back to the house. The mayor orders him on the walkie to follow the blood and the officer does so. When he gets in the house, he turns on a video call of some sort so the mayor and Hobbs can see what he sees. As he follows the blood into the cellar and down a dark hallway he comes upon the room where Kenny, Darryl, and Ryan lay dead and butchered. He sees a freezer and the mayor opens him to order it. As he gets closer and closer the freezer suddenly pops open and Nikki jumps up, screaming. This shocks/scares the officer causing him to shoot Nikki in the head and accidentally kill her. The video call drops and the mayor and Hooper are shocked by what just happened. The officer runs back up the stairs of the house and is attacked by Leatherface who bludgeons him with an ax and then begins to chop into his back repeatedly. Mayor Burt decides to confront Heather saying she must have something to do with this. As Hooper tries to stop him from going into the room where she was left, they see the evidence from the night the Sawyers were killed sprawled all over the table, and Heather has written the word "Murderers" on one of the sheets.Back at the house, we see Leatherface crafting a new mask from the face of the police officer he just killed and he sews it onto his own face.Heather is on the streets of the town, and she reaches a payphone and calls Farnsworth. She tells him that she knows EVERYTHING, and he tells her to meet him at a local bar. When they meet he informs her that he warned her to read the letter immediately because Verna detailed everything she needed to know. He also informs her that Jed (Leatherface) knows she is still alive, but he doesn't know WHO she is. Suddenly the mayor arrives and chases her out the bar. She grabs a knife before she runs out and just as she reaches the street, the Mayor's partner, Ollie (Ritchie Montgomery), hits her with his car. He jumps out to grab her, but she quickly slashes his face with the knife and makes a run for it.Heather gets a good distance and then runs into Officer Carl. She asks him to get her to the bar, so she can help Farnsworth and warns him that the Mayor is after her. She hops in the backseat and Carl drives towards the bar. They see Farnsworth outside, and he sees them, but Carl keeps going. Heather shouts at him and then realizes he's helping the Mayor when the Mayor calls his phone. She also discovers that the Mayor is Carl's FATHER! The Mayor tells Carl over the C.B. radio to bring her to the old slaughterhouse that the Sawyers used to own. Little do they know, though, that Leatherface has a C.B. radio in a truck and overhears this. He grabs his best chainsaw and goes out into the night.Farnsworth rushes into the police station and warns Hooper that Heather is in trouble and that a police officer took her. Hooper puts a lock on the squad car's location and realizes where they're going. He quickly leaves.When Carl arrives at the slaughterhouse, he goes to tie Heather up from some ropes. When she tries to attack him, he accidentally rips her shirt down the middle, but she stays tied up. He leaves her there and tapes her mouth shut. Outside, we see the Mayor and Ollie have arrived. The Mayor tells Carl to leave and that they'll handle her. Back inside we see Leatherface is behind Heather and he places his chainsaw on her shoulder. She tries to scream, but they are muffled by the tape. He steps in front of her and revs the chainsaw. As he gets closer and closer to her with it, he stops and notices the bullet scar on her shoulder. (The same scar from when she and her mother Loretta were shot). He removes the tape from her mouth, and she begins to beg and plead with him repeatedly telling him that "It's me! I'm Heather! I'm your cousin! Please let me go." Leatherface is shocked by this but cuts her free, just as Ollie and the Mayor arrive and begin to beat the crap out of Leatherface. Heather makes a run for it.As soon as she gets outside, she hears Leatherface yelling out in pain as the Mayor and Ollie beat him repeatedly. The Mayor wraps a chain around his neck and tells Ollie to power it on. The chain leads into a giant meat grinder. Ollie runs to go power it on and just as he does he is attacked by Heather who shoves a pitchfork through his body and kills him. As the chain begins to pull Leatherface closer to the meat grinder, Heather shows up and tosses him his chainsaw. Leatherface uses it to cut the chain and free himself. He rises up, and Heather smirks and tells him "Do your thing cousin." Leatherface then cuts both of the Mayors ankles with the chainsaw. The mayor falls onto the ground and begins to crawl backwards, unknowingly towards the grinder. Hooper shows up with a gun and sees the chaos. The Mayor constantly yells for him to shoot, but Hooper slowly lowers his gun when he sees Heather shouting for him not to shoot, and he leaves the Mayor to die. The Mayor ends up crawling back into the grinder and is shredded to pieces.Back at the Sawyer house, we see Leatherface sitting slumped in a chair, and Heather is standing next to him. She tries to touch his face, but he gets up and goes down into the cellar. Heather finally reads Verna's letter which (in flashback) Verna Carson (Marilyn Burns) details that Jed is the only blood relative she has left now and that whether she chooses to stay or not, she should NEVER forget where her home is. We see Heather go down into the cellar. She stares at Leatherface face to face as she grabs his tray of old food and goes upstairs. She has decided to stay. The movie ends as Leatherface grabs the metal door, and slams it shut.In a post-credits scene, Gavin and Arlene show up at the mansion to see Heather, greedily seeking a share of her assets. As they wait by the door, Leatherface comes out with his chainsaw.

Tags: revenge, murder, violence, flashback

Review:
I rushed to the theater on opening night super excited because the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D facebook page shared a lot of information about the making of the movie and I expected it to be the best one yet.
Also the makers of the movie made a huge error with the the main character's age (should be at least 40.) The killings were not that severe, the only 3D parts were with the chainsaw (which didn't even happen that much), and Leatherface was turned into this sweet character that you began to feel bad for.
How its become a household name I cannot figure out, I only assume its riding off the first movies controversy.Almost 40yrs after that first movie was released TCM went 3D and delivered what I believe it be the best movie in the franchise.Starring Alexandra Daddario, Tania Raymonde and Scott Eastwood we see a girl return home for her inheritance only to discover her origins are rooted in blood.Though the movie doesn't bring anything new to the table it is well enough made and strengthened by a mostly decent cast.Alas however this is not a sequel and yet another much not needed reboot so expect more origins and less continuation of the Sawyer legacy.Expectedly gory, mostly well acted and interesting enough to keep my attention this has shown that the TCM franchise has potential but just fails to capitalise.The Good: Decent cast The Bad: It's still a reboot Something about this Leatherface felt off Things I Learnt From This Movie: Tania Raymonde's character will have got a lot of tips at the store Raymonde & Daddario together in a film was too much distraction for my simple mind to handle Tania Raymonde's character contains enough blood to fill the grand canyon and doesn't require it to operate Rule 1 of a TCM movie, don't trust anyone Scott Eastwood is just terrible, I mean seriously the guy never improves Daddario would make a great villain.
The original was directed by Tobe Hooper, and Hooper himself helped produce not only this film but the 2003 remake (which inexplicably changed the family name of the murderous family) and the 2006 prequel, but the current film actually uses scenes from the 1974 original (and the original family name of Sawyer) as it's jumping-off point, which gave the film some instant weight for fans of the franchise.However, the weight was lifted real quick.In short, right after the events of the original film, some of the residents of the town of Newt, Texas burn down the house where the original massacre occurred with the entire Sawyer clan inside, but not without one baby surviving the inferno.
Never mind little stupid things like the fact that the house burning down at the beginning of the film happened on August 19th and somehow, the newspaper which reported the story was also dated August 19th (rather than the 20th).
The negative: There is no talent, the actors have no chemistry, the idea is wasted but worst of all there is no pace to the story, no suspense or anything of the original movie that made it good.Avoid at all cost..
Chainsaw 3D is a direct sequel to the 1974 classic that opens with a vengeful redneck mob laying siege to the house occupied by Leatherface and a lot of other family members that weren't there in the original.
Heather goes down to the house with some generic stereotype friends who seem handpicked to be murdered which is smart because there just happens to be another family member living hidden in the house like Bad Ronald (70s TV movie reference.
And despite how bad it's written, the film is trying to honor it's roots and we get some fun cameos to prove it and when it's all said and done it can be a good time if you just sit back and enjoy watching hot chicks in peril and sleazy rednecks meeting chainsaw justice.
I'm a huge fan of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre films (I love the original film and I adore the second part) hell, i even liked the remake and the follow up to the remake.
After that the introduction with the main cast was corny but pretty much every horror movie is, because for some reason producers don't want to spend money on actors that can carry on a scene without running and screaming.
I only watched this movie being a long time horror fan especially of the Texas Chainsaw franchise.
Anyone who says this movie is no good is either too dumb to understand why it played out as it did or still suckling on the teet of the theory that the remakes/sequels should follow the exact same path that a completely different director/set of writers/cast/etc.
Being a horror fan I love the classic 1974 Texas Chainsaw film with the original Leatherface(Gunnar Hansen)and to start with this modern reboot continuation a montage of vintage clips are shown to bring back memories.
The Texas chainsaw massacre was the first horror movie I ever bought, and it holds a special place in my heart, so it was only natural that I felt bad for Leatherface.
No one of the actresses who played a heroine returned in a sh**ty cameo role but Marilyn Burns did that, that is why she lost my respect.This movie sucks a dick, should it suppose to be a family horror film or something?
This movie turn in to a lead character Heather (Alexandra Daddario) from a shi**less victim, from a heroine to a villain in this film!
Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III in my opinion is the best sequel movie I like.
If anything it was a great homage to an original horror classic.Some people thought it was cliché' but think about all the 80s horror movies a horror fan loves.
The film forced us to have high expectations and compare it to the original.The characters are one dimensional and are the most intellectually challenged individuals in horror movie history, another reason to put a bad name on this ever growing, disappointing genre.
He had the perfect settings/atmosphere and did nothing remotely chilling or shocking with them, this is a Texas Chainsaw movie after all, but did not feel like one and now I know why they left Massacre out of the title for this failure.
Not earned at all and leaves fans of the original and even the remake, prequel feel very cheated!The makers seem to want to do something very different with the story and had some twists here and there that you don't expect to see from this never ending series.
That being said, this movie falls well below par for any and every standard.This movie was fairly hyped up, the trailer showed great promise of being a big time hit, the cast and crew talked of how this movie was going to blow us away in terms of gore and unsuspected twist; and if your anything like the girls in my theater you couldn't wait to see Trey Songz take a stab at acting.
Perhaps this is because despite wearing a mask on his face Leatherface gives the most emotive performance out of the entire cast, who are poorly written and whose names I have already forgotten, save for Kenny's but that is only because of "Oh my god, they killed kenny" suffice to say the film was written so poorly that even that quote was missed off from the film.In summary, the characters 'act' stupidly throughout, a sure sign of lazy writing, the plot is nonsensical and an insult to the original.
They weren't masterpieces or anything but I enjoyed them for the most part so when I found out yet another Texas Chainsaw movie was coming out, and even though I wasn't impressed with the trailer, I decided to go see it.What was I thinking?I think you are forced to see it in 3D because, well, it says 3D on it but most of the time you forgot you are even watching it in 3D.
The movie starts off showing clips of the very original Texas Chainsaw Massacre which confused me because it totally obliterates the remakes.
Judging by the trailers only my impression was that this was going to be another boring and cliché slasher flick and a lot of people would most likely argue that it still is and i can understand why, however i am a big fan of the series and by definition the original movie so watching a movie which is a direct sequel to the original was quite the treat for me.Going back to the "boring slasher" bit, this movie has some of those cliché slasher shticks, like the characters for example, such as the jock, the slut and so on, but what i liked about this movie is that it plays a bit with your expectations and actually takes some of these clichés and flips them around.The film also has a rather interesting ending, which you will see coming relatively early on if you have half a brain cell, and this ending is one of those endings that you either love or you hate so make of that what you will.Final verdict, if you like some of the other Chain saw movies and can forgive a thing or two about the movie then your in for a good and entertaining movie!
This was so terrible from the start to the end i was dying with laughter of the terrible lines and the terrible deaths.don't even rent this if it was free it's that bad like who the hell idea was it to get trey songs ass in here needs to get shot like damn and he didn't even die from Texas chainsaw he died from a car crash like how stupid can a movie get well i don't know but i hope they don't make a second of this dump after i was done with this peace of crap i had to take a crap and damn it hurt because i watched this DUMP WARNING STAY AWAY FROM Texas CHAINSAW 3D UNLESS YOU LIKE TERRIBLE MOVIES AND IF THAT IS THE TRUTH STILL DON'T WATCH THIS GUTTER BUTTER PEACE OF CRAP REMAKE OF A CLASSIC THAT IS WHY I GIVE IT 1 OUT OF 10.
It was pretty clear that the original draft of this film could have easily been a draft for Scary Movie or some comedy spoof of Scooby Doo.It did have all the right things to make it fit right in with modern horror films but executed everything so poorly you may have thought they were making it up as they went along.
I must admit that I'm not a big fan of the original movie (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre).
Yes, Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a legendary series, but they are still simply slashers, not Kubrick films.I give the movie 8 out of 10 and the second on my list of slashers, which looks like this: 1.
But then there's a film like "Texas Chainsaw 3D", a 2013 semi-sequel that seeks to continue the story right where the original Tobe Hooper masterpiece left off.
Instead, Texas CHAINSAW is more of the same horror movie you've come to expect from this already-tired franchise.Picking up where the 1974 movie has left off (along with its original footage to sum up the story), we last seen Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) managed to escape from the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface and hopped on a pickup truck.
This film is everything you expect from a "Texas Chainsaw" movie.
But if Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D (what a title) is the evidence, then one believing that would be wrong.TC3D is the type of movie that lowers the bar for slasher films.
Take it as a simple movie to make people scared and you will have fun.If you happen to look for a deeper meaning and need the story to be logical and correct, then you will most definitely have a bad time.
The film is easy to follow if you've watched the film movie(1974), as you know the whole 'TCM' storyline.The bad points: Acting- The whole stereotypical performance of a horror film is portrayed where 'Girl runs off but falls to await her death by the serial killer'.
Betting it all on a semi-twist ending to redirect the time line, TC3D is riddled with bad writing, weak scares, and is a pathetic attempt of 3D.For me, Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre will live in infamy as my favorite horror movie of all time.
After watching this film I realized that it simply was a good way for Hollywood to say sorry for all the past Texas Chainsaw movies that were unfortunately made and God awful from the start.
The picture stars a cast of mostly unknown, (but talented) actors and actresses, with the exceptions of cameo appearances by Bill Mosely (who is a scary movie legend, well known to the hardcore monster flicks community) and Gunner Hanson (who played the part of "Leatherface" in the original "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre".
The motion picture shows scenes from the original "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" during the opening credits to catch up viewers who have never seen the first movie as to what is going on exactly.The story in this film takes place immediately following the events of the original movie.
Although I find it way too bonkers not to be an enjoyable watch, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994) has long been considered by many TCM fans to be the worst movie in the popular horror franchise; I expect Texas Chainsaw 3D to change quite a few of those opinions.A direct sequel to Tobe Hooper's 1974 original, this disrespectful trash messily rewrites the history of the Sawyer clan (suddenly introducing an extended family) before moving the action to the present day, when drop-dead-gorgeous twenty-something Heather Miller (Alexandra Daddario)—who according to the TCM time-line would actually be 39—discovers that she was not only adopted as a child, but is also heir to a sprawling Texas mansion.Accompanied by her thoroughly unlikeable and untrustworthy friends, Heather takes a road trip to Texas where she checks out her new home, little realising that Leatherface (Dan Yeager) is lurking in the basement, ready to get busy with his trusty power tool.Although Texas Chainsaw 3D does admittedly deliver in the gore department (albeit with the help of some crap CGI), almost everything else about the film comes as a massive disappointment: the 3D effects are predictably cheesy (mostly comprising of unimaginative shots of the blade whirring in the foreground) and the dumb script features irritating characters, lousy dialogue ('do your thing, cuz') and increasingly ridiculous plot developments.Worst of all, delicious Daddario doesn't even strip off to take a shower or have sex; given just how cheap and tacky the rest of the film is, this should have been a given..
I really have enjoyed watching leather face the Texas massacre movies through out the years they have such a creepy scary feeling about them because legend has it to be a true story which makes it even more frightening.
Those are both elements I believe drew audiences to the first two movies and set them apart from other slasher films."Texas Chainsaw" alumni play the different members of the Sawyer family.
Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface in the original film), Bill Moseley ("Chop- Top" Sawyer in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2"), and Marilyn Burns all play members of the Sawyer clan.
By no means a patch on the first movie or a "that has to be in my DVD collection" but an enjoyable horror none the less and definitely much better than some of the sequels in the franchise (especially the awful "Next Generation" pap).Like some other reviews have stated, if you want a complex brain twisting plot and Oscar driven performances then it may not be for you but if you want some good old blood,guts and not have too think to hard then see it..
For a Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel from the original series, I was not expecting a good movie.
The movie serves it's purpose.Of course, there may be ridiculous lines from a horrendous screenplay delivered by sub-par actors such as "Do your thing, cuz." And of course, there might be MAJOR plot holes, one including the fact that the protagonist is really supposed to be forty something.And let's not forget: There will be the typical horror movie plot that felt like it had some sort of a drop of creativity during the last half of the movie for a slight twist, but only because the screenwriter seemed to have gotten bored with what he was writing.But let's face the facts here people: If you thought this movie was going to stem from any iota of truly meaningful and all around good film making, you're missing part of your brain.I'm appalled by people who gave this movie one star.You KNEW what you were in for with a title like "TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D." Come on...If one was to expect nothing from the movie however, and accepted it for what they KNEW it was going to be- one might be slightly surprised by the entertainment provided.One also might then rate this movie 6/10 stars for solely that reason.Congrats to the filmmakers who are going to quadruple their revenue by the time this baby hits DVD sales.
I thought the 2003 remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a pretty decent horror film.
Seems like the makers knew Texas Chainsaw fans would go watch this movie so they didn't care to put effort into making it a good one.
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an icon in horror cinema, and for good reason.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise is a series of horror films which depict people meeting their ends at the hands of an Ax-Crazy family in Texas known as the Sawyers.
Apparently these Texas Chainsaw Massacre series of films do make money because they keep coming back like a bad nightmare in a Freddy Krueger movie.